"Mr Lavery stepped down as general secretary of the Northumberland Area in 2010, taking over from Denis Murphy as MP for Wansbeck. Mr Murphy took over the running of the union which now has just six members.
During Mr Lavery's tenure as general secretary, more than half of the union's £2.5m income came from sick former miners who the Union helped with compensation claims and who donated a portion of their payments to the union.
Mr Lavery has already faced questions from the Sunday Times about what appear to be more than £140,000 of redundancy payments to him, as well as about why he received a mortgage from union funds"
I'm not surprised that sick former miners are annoyed gg and I'm a bit surprised that you don't appear to have sympathy for them.
My understanding of employment law is that redundancy payments are only made when a job is no longer required.
Even if the role of general secretary was greatly reduced, to have accepted a redundancy payment, using funds contributed by sick miners, when he had assumed the role of MP for Wansbeck doesn't seem appropriate to me.