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Excerpt from first-hand report by teacher.
The full article is on Industrial Workers of the World http://iww.org.au/aggregator
14 July 2006
HealthQuest Tyrants Must Go: 'Today I was subjected to torture and humiliation in retaliation for applying for part time work..'
… The neurologist is well known and respected and he found me fit for work. Still HealthQuest refused to declare me fit. Instead Dr Dodwell sent to the neurologist paperwork from… several years ago including a referral letter written by a staff supervisor Janice Anderson … I went back to work successfully for years after these things happened. Dodwell suggests I might have 'permanent personality changes' from an accident that happened when I was 16.
Following that accident I completed the HSC, a degree and worked for many years. What a disgusting slur on my character to suggest I have some kind of personality problem. I get on well with everyone. I do not argue with workmates or cause trouble. I suppose I can understand that troublemakers may not be welcome in the workplace and that in desperation, in the past, managers have referred these troublesome people to HealthQuest rather than instruct them directly to stop being argumentative.
But I am not that kind of person. I have many friends. I have worked in a voluntary capacity in many organizations. There was no suggestion that in the years before my retirement I caused any trouble in my last workplace. I retired with a party and a gold watch. I still visit my workplace for special occasions. ..
Personality disorder seems to be the favourite for silencing dissidents and whistleblowers.
[Dr Dodwell could have] simply accepted the neurologist's first opinion, that I was fit for work. But he [Dodwell] insisted I go back yet again. I passed their test but now there was another test.
Today the neurologist said I had to go and have an E.E.C. (which checks the electrical activity in the brain). What a sickening thing to do to me. I had to go to Concord Hospital where the cheerful technician joked "Too rebellious for the public service, were we?"
I heard someone else remark "State Rail has had a go this week too.....we've had a few of them through here."… Why am I co-operating in this? Because I believe I am entitled to work on a casual basis just like any other retired person of my profession.
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Source: Sydney Indymedia
Categories: Indymedia, Labour