We all know that Unite is a sick joke where the top echelons strut the political stage whilst the lumpenproletariat fork out their hard-earned dues month-in, month-out. But are those at the bottom of the heap getting a square deal? And when they need the Union, are the staff up to snuff?
If you need to turn to a Regional Organiser for help would you want him/her to be a liar and fantasist? Well that's yer man in the West Midlands.
Of course, Unite has its own "dirty tricks" department and it is just possible that some of what follows has been covertly authorised by the Union. There is also the question whether Rickers is using Unite-funded phone/equipment for his dubious activities and that they are turning a blind eye.
Let us look at some of the facts:
1 Even though Unite have lost large numbers of members at Sandwell Council through redundancy they "rule the roost" with the local Labour Party. Rickers and the Council Leader, Darren Cooper, have an extremely close relationship which must have helped when Rickers "negotiated" the transfer of the Unite workforce in refuse services to Serco. This pair incessantly put on Twitter that they are having Sunday lunch together but they are close alright. If you are in Unite & work for SMBC then "good luck" is all I can say.
2 Rickers used Twitter to imply that I had been at an event "photographing" his kids which would have been a bit difficult as I could prove that I was at work 20 miles away at the time!
3 Rickers and Cooper started to harass an arts charity in Birmingham. Rickers claimed that he knew people who work there but he does not. This was a lie - pure and simple. When I blogged about this nasty smear campaign it all stopped in their names but the attacks intensified dramatically against the charity via a series of troll accounts and other methods:
http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/labour-leader-unite-officer-harass-arts.html
4 With Darren Cooper, Rickers directly associated himself with numerous troll accounts and then openly interacted with them to spread their poison. This is now part of a police investigation.
5 The really bad troll attacks started at the beginning of December, 2014 and are ongoing (though to a lesser extent at present). Cooper and Rickers were directly interacting with the accounts which made what they knew to be grossly defamatory comments about me and my wife. The trolls threatened to ruin our Christmas and just in case I didn't get the message one of them sent me this:
6 The trolling was intense but Rickers was claiming on his Twitter account to be abroad. I employed a private investigator and can confirm that he was, in fact, safely ensconced in the warm bosom of, er, Dudley. Another lie, I'm afraid.
7 Eventually a classic sting operation completely fooled the imbecilic Cooper. False information about me was fed to him which he either passed on to the trolls (assuming he was not actually one or more of them himself) - thus proving he was in direct contact with them - or even more recklessly - used himself. Myself and a third party fed Cooper, inter alia, the line that I had been barred from a bar in Brum for touching up the female staff. Cooper immediately started tweeting about it and his Unite mate joined in. This is an illiterate Tweet he sent to Cooper claiming he had visited the bar - which he had not. I know this from other methods but note that he is claiming to have "just left" the bar at 8.43 am when it was, er, closed. Oh dear, oh dear - yet another blatant lie!
Is this filling you with confidence, Unite members of the West Midlands? Let's look at some other stuff. Your RO seems to be living in some sort of fantasy work. He has now changed his Twitter profile, for example, to show that he is based in Leicester when he is not! What is that all about?
About the only thing that Rickers has got right - and I suppose the infinite monkey theorem could apply here - is his assessment of Unite favourite, Tom Watson MP who also gets funding from the monies of the worker ants. In a rare moment of insight, Rickers came up with a most appropriate name for the joint laziest MP 2010-2015:
(Note these two tweets were copied to Cooper and to Cooper's (allegedly mentally-ill) social media spokesperson, Andrew Hipkiss.)
I sent an email to Rickers yesterday but have had no response. People have been telling me that he has been off sick from his onerous Unite duties but other people were telling me he has been spotted on a number of occasions recently going in and out of SMBC premises which doesn't seem to match up (and he doesn't live in "Sadwell" and so can't have been doing personal business).
But he claims the Spanish holidays keep on coming though. On the weekend of 12th/13th December, 2015 he claimed to be in southern Spain with SMBC "comrades":
Just 10 days later he was alleging he was back there! This is just two of a number of Tweets where he claimed to have gone on 22nd December, 2015 for 36 hours but then claimed to be flying back 8 days later on 30th December:
But wait for it - there is even more! Here is again on 30th January claiming to be enjoying la dolce vita:
Scenario 1 - Unite really do pay Rickers well enough to indulge in all this whilst the dimwitted drones who pay their dues struggle to make ends meet. Or maybe he in on sick pay and this is part of his recuperation (!) But, as above, he does have form for pretending to be away when he is not.....
Scenario 2 - He is just some sad, pathetic, man who regularly wakes up and thinks, "I know! I'll pretend to the whole world that I'm in Spain today." No doubt this fantasist is just the sort of chap Unite need in a responsible senior position! ROFLMAO.
I believe that Unite used to have a rule about taking action against members who brought the Union into disrepute. Does it also apply to employees if they still have it, I wonder?
Oh, and by the way, if Rickers WAS in work today I hope he was giving matters his full attention as he was still up tweeting bollocks at 3.08am.......
Addendum 03/02/16 a correspondent has sent me evidence that many of this peculiar man's Spanish photos are off the site of a Spanish estate agent via a site called "TinEye". Have checked and this is correct. How very odd!
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