Mick Hartley

Here we go again. From the Times:

A leading trade union is being sued by two of its members over claims they were threatened with disciplinary action for criticising its “unlawful” gender policy.

The Community trade union, which counts several UK cabinet politicians as members, is facing a judicial review brought by two women, Norma Austin Hart and Alison Ann-Dowling, who are seeking to have its gender equality strategy quashed.

They claim the policy, adopted by Community’s national executive council in February last year, is unlawful as it treats women and those who claim to identify as non-binary as a single category, contrary to a Supreme Court ruling that determined sex is defined by biology.

The women are also making a claim of victimisation, after they were written to by the union warning they could face disciplinary action after they criticised the policy publicly in an article that was published online.

It’s always the unions. Reactionary leftism. They cling to anything which has ever been associated with “progressive” politics, and won’t let go – because they don’t want to think about it. Thinkers don’t make the cut in union politics: mindless slogans do much better.