Brewdog complains of anonymous accusers. Recognise a union & agree a grievance process
Ahead of a BBC Scotland programme on Brewdog on Monday, James Watt co-founder has been active in on-line forums. The matter is reported in the Times (22nd January).
Watt has complained that those anonymously raising issues have ‘an axe to grind’ said their identities might become public, made a number of allegations against so far unnamed people and threatened Court action.
In the circumstances its hardly surprising that people have remained anonymous
Bryan Simpson of Unite is right (see Times report) that if Mr Watt had spent time addressing and resolving issues instead of trying to discredit those who complained matters might not have got to this stage.
Brewdog has still not recognised a trade union. If it had of done it could have put in place a grievance process, where individuals could raise issues, get them heard and reviewed with independent union representation and probably in many cases put in hand measures to sort matters out without attracting any external publicity at all.
The first law of holes applies.
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