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Head who didn't like union stopping him having 'free reign' at Greater Manchester school took 'revenge' on teacher
12.05.2024 - 16:07 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A well respected senior teacher was unfairly sacked and discriminated against for 'trade union reasons', a tribunal has found.
Carmen Wood-Hope was employed at The Friars Primary School in Salford from 2014, having qualified three years earlier. She became a member of the school’s senior leadership team as the school’s Liaison and Cohesion lead, with responsibility for relations with parents and staff.
An employment tribunal held over ten days heard she was an excellent classroom teacher who had, in March 2017, been recommended for and received an additional pay award to reflect her ‘highly competent’ performance.
But after she became the NUT, later NEU, workplace representative for teaching staff members at the school, she ended up being dismissed.
At the tribunal, the teacher claimed that she had been discriminated against by the school. And, in its judgement a panel of three decided that she had been 'automatically unfairly dismissed for trade union reasons', after The Friars' headteacher, Michael Earnshaw, who held 'antipathy towards' her, had put in place a 'punitive' 'support plan'.
Concluding that Ms Wood-Hope had 'suffered detriment because of her trade union duties', the judgement said of headteacher Michael Earnshaw: "The respondents’ main purpose in carrying out such treatment was to prevent or deter the claimant from taking part in the activities of an independent trade union at an appropriate time and also to penalise her for so doing...
"Under cross-examination, Mr Earnshaw was unable to explain his actions. In the absence of any explanation, the Tribunal concluded on a balance of probabilities that Mr Earnshaw was intent on extracting revenge and that his animus to the claimant betrayed him."
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