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Friends and readers. Our Social Work group who have been keeping us informed the best they can on various issues including workplace bullying have told us that there is a mood of blame within the hallowed corridors of Waverley Court. Since the ridiculas outburst by Chief Social Worker and humanitarian Michelle Miller in which she described abuse of staff as acceptable,there has been a definate cooling of relations amongst this group of senior backstabbers.
We have also received confirmation that a report written by another victim of bullying has been mis-laid. We had a sighting of this report in which details of systematic undermining and bullying took place once again at the Social Work Centre in Muirhouse. Fortunatly our associate George took a photo copy of this report so it will be made available when required.
This added to the already mountain of evidence against the bully must surely bring forth action against him. Our own Solicitor who has gone through this evidence which has been amassed tells us that the City Council is sitting on a potential bomb which may go off if action is not taken. In the last week we where contacted by another national newspaper wanting to know more of what had taken place. We kindly declined for the time being.
5 victims possibly more humiliated undermined and systematically bullied out of their posts by a serial bully on a power trip. Still it seems senior managers do nothing but cover their own asses. One victim has already been dismissed but that only up’s the anti as the law creeps ever closer. We have been told and it has been confirmed that this thug is well known throughout Criminal Justice and is deeply disliked. Yet still nothing is done.
The potential for massive adverse publicity surrounding these cases is there for all to see. Once it breaks into the public domain, it is very conceivable that there could be a night of the long knives down Waverley Court way. Impotent management leads to an impotent service,and certainly since Ms. Miller’s comments on the acceptability of abuse of staff,murmers of discontent have started to surface.
It is therefore in Ms. Millers eyes quite acceptable to humiliate, threaten with physical violence,verbally abuse and systematically bully staff because it’s a cultural thing. It is clear that the duty of care at work cuts no ice with Ms. Miller. The City proudly proclaims that they cut no corners in their duty of care to their staff and to provide a safe working enviournment. Staff have a legal right to work in a safe enviournment and not to be abused by so called colleagues or anybody else for that matter.
We now know that senior managers knew for a long time that all was not well in the Muirhouse office but chose to do nothing about it. It is now clear that Unison had already had dealings with this bully before,still senior management done nothing. We heard from one senior manager through the Grapevine that he knew of a managerial problem within the Muirhouse Office,but nobody was prepared to take the action required to remove this thug from post.
This manager told us that his colleagues have known for over ten years that there has been a bullying problem within Muirhouse. A letter was written by a former employee as early as 1993 to the then Shrubhill Office regarding mis-behaviour amongst other things. So they have known for at least 14 possibly more years that bullying was taking place in this Office.
We only found out about this letter on Thursday and are now trying to trace the author. We have been given his name and are now in the process of trying to make contact. If we can confirm his existance and the authentisity of the letter,and who it was sent to,with no action taken,we will indeed know what we have more or less known for some time,that a cover up has been in existance to make sure the systematic abuse of staff at the office in Muirhouse never got out, and if it did hammer the victims into submission and call every witness available liars or in some way mixed up or have not quite got their facts right.
This travesty which we now know goes back many years shows up to what extent abuse of staff will be covered up,and for how long. We where contacted some time ago by e-mail from someone called John. We would ask John to get back in touch with us and tell us his story of his time in Criminal Justice. We undestand John was a joiner who worked within this department when and for how long we do not know,but he told us in his e-mail that he to was a victim and had suffered bullying but he took action into his own hands.
What happened we do not know but John does,so we ask you to get in contact and tell us what actually happened and what if any relationship it has with what went down in Muirhouse.