Morning Star article on female trade unionist attacked on picket line

Tanis Wood is a fucking aggressive knob. I'm ashamed of those handmaidens though. Idiotic

I mean injured or worse Elendon. I’m not minimising what’s already happened to the two women who’ve been assaulted.

Some really good quotes on there. Heartening to see a move from the 'we need to respect all types of women' nonsense!

I would like to bring this up in the next CLP meeting in that as a CLP we write in solidarity of this woman who was stalked.

Something along the lines of:

This CLP is against the actions of these people towards Paula to be antithetical to the aims of all trade union members to freely participate at a picket line.

Where should it go to though?

That's how it goes in these lefty organisations in my experience: woman gets verbally abused by men for having an opinion - everybody else looks on politely like "solidarity? Wtf is that?" I speak from bitter experience.

What does 'seriously hurt' mean though 'AreYou*

This was a threatening attack on a woman, who was specifically targeted. They knew where she had gone previously, they knew what she looked like, they knew she would be there.

Stalking is not to be taken lightly. It's very serious.

Third time lucky - here's the full url:

en-gb.facebook.com/womansplaceuk/

The footage is on WPUK's Facebook page:

en-gb.facebook.com/womansplaceuk/

Does it look like Paula was escorted away by a police officer at the end?

How long is it going to be before a woman is seriously hurt?

‘Mindless thugs’ sums them up.

I suppose this form of terrorism is so commonplace that the media do not consider it newsworthy.

I'm glad the union are standing by her.

The silence from mainstream media is deafening. Where are the stories on the harassment and intimidation? Funny how the repulsive list was largely ignored. How many times are we going to be reduced to a minority of feminists? We're half of the fucking population!

"Let's hope Tanis wolf is confined at Her Mjesty's pleasure".

Yes, in a men's prison where he belongs.

I heart Lucy. What a great speech!

Wow! A bit of support! Great article.

This is Lucy talking about her experiences as a firefighter.

Interesting that Lucy Masoud of the Fire Brigades Union (LGBT London secretary) referred to the mob as "mindless thugs".

She'll be getting flak from the T for that.

Lucy was one of the firefighters at Grenfell and seems to be having no problem calling bullshit when she sees it.

When Lily Madigan was complaining on Twitter about being searched by a man at the G.A.Y. club, Lucy responded:
"Maybe the man Self ID as a woman and it’s you Liam who is being transphobic".

So many cowards and misogynists! Is the victim taking legal action?

Of course it's in the union's interest that they defend women and protect them from sex discrimination. Unions were instrumental in getting reparations regarding pay disparity for many women, and rightly so and sometimes against Labour councils. You don't have to be a Labour member to join a union and you don't have to donate either. It's not obligatory any more. thank goodness!

Interesting to see this from the Standard too

[https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/labour-s-next-civil-war-is-a-battle-over-what-it-means-to-be-a-woman-a3793541.html]

Sounds like the unions are waking up to this. Finally.

I was heartened to hear Eddie Dempsey (executive member of the RMT) speaking up.

From the article:

Dempsey said he thought, “as a whole, the trade union movement has ducked the issue” of the GRA and that “people were afraid of speaking out.”

“The general feeling is that people are hoping this is going to go away, but it’s not going to.

“We have to make sure as a trade union movement that we have the ability to fight sex discrimination and defend women at work,” he said.

Let's hope Tanis wolf is confined at Her Mjesty's pleasure.

Great article and how refreshing to hear so many people actively condemning transactivism for once. This quote from Paula really shows what we're up against and I hope she's ok: “What upset me most about the incident is, out of the very big crowd which surrounded me and witnessed a completely one-sided and unprovoked attack, not one person felt inclined to intervene. It was a really shocking example of mob mentality."

I hope the union investigate this thoroughly. And the bystander effect must have added an extra dimension to this horrifying ordeal.

Perhaps those who stood by will reflect on their behaviour. It could be they were afraid to help because they didn't want to be seen to be anti trans. Really, the LGBT officer in the Union, and there will be one, should speak about this.

Thank you so much for posting this link. I've bookmarked it.

I think this will be a tipping point for many regarding self id and the working place. A person should never face harassment and intimidation on a picket line from fellow picketers. The attendance of the WPUK meeting was clear and valid and totally irrelevant to this particular protest.

I don't think there was any physical assault this time. They're a fucking idiot though

According to the article, there was homophobic abuse coming from that quarter. I'm pretty sure, if true, that this is another offence.