Mandy La Combre concerned of issues from workers upset about Ogle not commenting on industrial agreement they opposed
Mandy La Combre said she feared a repeat of the “trolling” she said had occurred around the time of the occupation of Apollo House by housing activists some years earlier. Photograph: Alan BetsonBrendan Ogle’s wife says she posted on Facebook accusing the Unite trade union of sidelining her husband at work after his cancer treatment in an attempt to head off any “trolling” from council water workers who she claims were upset he was “silent” on an industrial agreement they opposed.
She said there was much public comment being made on social media on the weekend of 11 September 2022 following a deal struck on a transfer of undertakings – with some criticism that workers had not been balloted on the measures.
The WRC heard that during a speech to a trade union conference in Malahide, Co Dublin later that month, the trade union’s former chairman, Tony Woodhouse, referred to “the lies that were being told” about Unite on social media, and stated: “Officers returning from sick leave are always treated in the most perfect manner.”
Mark Harty SC, for Unite, put it to Ms La Combre that her Facebook post had amounted to a “hand grenade” and asked her whether she thought it had been “ill-advised” in the context of a process of “working out” matters around her husband’s return to work.Asked how the Irish Examiner journalist, Mick Clifford, had her contact details, she said: “I’m a senior officer in another union. All my contact details are public.
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