Allegedly Stansfield had tendered her letter for retirement prior to being suspended but was kept on full pay from February 2023 pending investigation. Union staff join another union and threaten strikeWorkplace relations have become so bad that TSSA’s own staff have themselves joined another trade union and threatened to go on strike against their managers. Although he was fired for gross misconduct after the report’s publication by TSSA, Cortes has appealed against both his sacking and his ejection as a member of the union. Staff victimised to ‘silence dissent’ at the TSSA UnionThe new general secretary even wrote to TSSA members attacking union staff, wrote a column in a newspaper accusing the union that represents TSSA staff at work of trying to take over TSSA and tried to bypass striking staff to negotiate an end to the strike directly with the GMB union’s management. The allegations then continued last month with accusations by the GMB union that their rep, who represents TSSA staff at work and in their dispute, had been bullied and victimised to “silence dissent”.