Thank you for your report on the memorial event for Simon Jones (The Argus, April 26). I'm not secretary of Sussex Transport and General Workers Union - I'm secretary of 1/888 Branch, which is one of 25 branches covering Sussex.
1/888 is a lorry drivers' branch and there were four of our lorry driver branch members at the memorial event on Saturday.
As working truck drivers, we know all too well that although the roads of Britain and Europe can be dangerous places to work, the places where we load and unload are even more dangerous.
For that reason, we are campaigning for effective legislation to bring about corporate responsibility to try to prevent such tragedies as the death of Simon Jones occurring again.
Your readers may be interested in the rebuff we received from Bodyshop last Thursday when our regional industrial organiser, Sharon Wentworth, requested its permission to park our mobile office outside the Bodyshop factory in West Sussex.
We wanted the opportunity to promote health and safety advice and to give Bodyshop workers the chance to join our trade union. It seems that in spite of its so-called ethical principles, Bodyshop takes a Victorian attitude towards co-operation in allowing its employees the choice of joining a trade union.
I would like to serve notice on Bodyshop that it has not heard the last of the T&G if it continues to deny basic human rights such as the rights of workers to have a choice of joining a trade union.
-Rachael Webb, Brighton
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