http://www.ConsumerActionGroup.co.uk/forum/employment-problems/
- DIY employment law, including contributors who believe that existing unions are all great

http://www.MyGrievance.co.uk/component/option,com_fireboard/Itemid,67/func,showcat/catid,20/
- Unions. Links to sites about bullying at work.

Both of these are polite restrained and interactive sites with different purposes to employees.org.uk which reserves the right to be a one-way rant and began as a way of getting facts clear in the author's own head: I slightly disabled my short term sequential memory in a medical accident a few years ago and suffered machiavellian stuff on return to work, from the union, and then the tribunal. Web research suggests that this is pretty normal and tales of woe arise in the forums above and others weekly or daily.

For some reason work doesn't count as a politician's subject. "Garden Grabbing" and planning vagaries are more typical of my MP, even though she's not a local counsellor, and is very well paid with three staff to be an MP) or a journalists' subject ("everybody knows that", said the Guardian / Observer journalist who came to report garden grabbing and planning vagaries in my street. Obviously he has one story for print and another story to tell everyone by telepathy and the same applies to the Times Educational Supplement, which every teacher knows, even though The Times never reports detail about bogus unions and workplace bullying).

There is also a Bullying 21st Century facebook page with no discussion but a very good links list and an opportunity to sign-up as a fan:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20444718373 - anyone wanting to make themselves available as a witness to ex-employees of companies can mention ex-employers on a face book page; it can be set so that nothing is visible but the name and a contact link. The author of the page has made a large number of public freedom of information act requests on http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/user/vicky_gray - which give an idea of what can be got that way.

About this site:
It's is written by a disgruntled ex-user of a paid-for part of union services: officials & lawyers, paid for at at least eleven pounds a month during a career. The career was in public-funded services run by voluntary organisations, but any online self-help group about employment law provides weekly tails of woe from any large organisation and I guess these are most often public-funded organisations that look good from above and just don't know how to do honesty. Bullyonline - the site of the late Frank Field - puts the kinds of organisations complained about in order of unpopularity in calls to his former helpline and the list begins with the kinds of vague employers that public-funded people have to work for, like specialist supported housing organisations or arts groups or colleges.

Oddly enough I have found an overlap between my experience as a badly treated patient who suffered slight brain damage, and as a badly treating alcohol services worker who could not get a decent education and discussion group together; the roles of service user and servce staff member are both roles of poeple who suffer because the person on the front line doesn't have anyone to ask about how to do the job and is right at the bottom of a hierachy of courtiers who are not very intersted in doing the job.

And another thing:
My MP, Susan Kramer, did promise to write about one aspect of the legal background - the financial services authority exemption for trades unions - to the appropriate minister. She got the wrong minister, who forwarded the letter to the right one. He waited until she had voted with the governing party on that very subject in a re-hash of the Legal Services Act and then replied that unfortunately he disagreed with her on that very point. I doubt she read the letters either way - her secretary probably had to do the work. That week the press releases on her web site, as always, were about local council issues for "local people", like grafitti outside a local school. The junior minister at the time happened to be the Unite-sponsored MP for Walsall, so as an ex member of Unite he might have been my sponsored MP if not my local MP in the past. MPs live in a small world don't they?