[Media-watch] FW: [GSAW] FW: NUJ picket over sacked BBC World Serivce Journalis ts

[David Miller]

please can people try and attend?

-----Original Message-----
From: Angela Austin
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Sent: 19/08/2003 16:29
Subject: Fw: NUJ picket over sacked BBC World Serivce Journalists


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alice McCarney" <AliceM at nuj.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:59 PM
Subject: FW: NUJ picket over sacked BBC World Serivce Journalists


>
> Colleague
>
>
> The National Union of Journalists' campaign to reinstate the two
sacked
BBC
> journalists, Adli Hawwari and Abdul-Hadi Hawwari comes to Scotland
this
> weekend.  The Director-General of the BBC, Greg Dyke is delivering a
lecture
> at the Edinburgh TV Festival on Sunday morning.  The NUJ's resolved to
give
> Dyke no peace until he gives justice to our two colleauges who were
sacked
> from the World Service without warning, representation or appeal.
That
> shocking and scandalous action betrays the hypocricy at the heart of
the
> BBC's stated policies of fairness and care towards its staff.
>
> Adli and Abdul Hadi will both be there; I do hope you'll be able to
join
the
> picket and show your support for them.
>
> Time: 10.30 am, Sunday 24 August
> Place: Edinburgh International Conference Centre
>
> Depending on numbers, we may arrange for a bus from Glasgow to
Edinburgh
and
> return on Sunday
>
>
> NOTES
> Adli Hawwari, a Palestinian, and Dr Abdul-Hadi Jiad, an Iraq, are
> long-standing NUJ activists at the BBC World Service.  They have
campaigned
> for fairness and equality at the Arabic Service for many years, and
helped
> build a strong, confident union organisation within the BBC lauguage
> services.  They were summarily sacked and frog-marched from their
workplace
> last February, with no warning, no right to representation, and no
right
of
> appeal, in direct defiance of the BBC's agreed employment procedures.
This
> unprecedented action is a threat to every single member of staff.  It
was
> officially endorsed by the Director General, Greg Dyke himself.
>
> Despite numerous direct appeals to senior management, and a campaign
of
> industrial action and boycotts by NUJ members, the BBC has refused
even to
> give a proper explanation of its action. Adli and Abdul-Hadi are
pursuing
a
> claim for unfair dismissal.  The union firmly supports their legal
action.
> We are continuing to demand their reinstatement, and an independent
inquiry
> into allegations of institutional racsism within the Arabic Service.
>
> CONTACT:
> Peter Murray
> Father of Chapel, Glasgow Broadcasting
> National Executive, Scotland
>
> mob: 07879 695 174
> tels: 0141 338 3707 (work)
>        0141 339 5030 (home)
>
>
> BBCi at http://www.bbc.co.uk/ <http://www.bbc.co.uk/> 
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