| GMB MEMBERS AT ST GEORGE’S HOSPITAL SOUTH LONDON TO BALLOT FOR STRIKE OVER BEING SHORT CHANGED ON PAY AND CONDITIONS |
18 February 2010
Members are underpaid by 80p per hour, they have no sick pay scheme, they get less paid holidays and have inferior premium pay arrangement for overtime and unsocial hours than nationally agreed rates |
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GMB SAY MOD DECISION TO SLOW DOWN SPEED OF SUBMARINE BUILD AT BARROW WITH 230 JOB LOSSES IS “DAMAGING SHORT TERMISM”
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12 February 2010
GMB will be seeking a meeting with BAe to explore all means of mitigation against any compulsory job losses
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16 GMB PUBCO ROADSHOW EVENTS IN WEST, NORTH & SOUTH YORKSHIRE, SURREY, WEST MIDLANDS, LONDON, DURHAM, SOUTH WALES, SCOTLAND, LINCOLNSHIRE, SUSSEX, KENT AND AVON OVER NEXT FOUR WEEKS
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12 Febraury 2010
Newest group of trade union members seek support for official industrial action to win £12,000 cut in wholesale prices to raise hourly income above national minimum wage |
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REGULATORS AND LEGISLATORS HAVE MADE FOOLS OF THEMSELVES IN DEALING WITH THE PUBCO RIP OFF SAYS GMB AS OFT REOPENS ENQUIRY
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12 Febraury 2010
On Monday February 8th GMB will announce the details of 16 meetings in the nationwide roadshow to organize the tied tenants to fight for as decent deal |
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GMB GIVE NOTICE OF OFFICIAL STRIKE BALLOT AT BRITISH GAS OVER ATTACKS ON JOBS AND TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
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12 Febraury 2010
95% of GMB members say yes in consultative vote to an official ballot for industrial action against macho management in British Gas |
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“THE BIG, HAIRY, AUDACIOUS GOAL I’VE THROWN DOWN IN ONE BRITISH GAS IS TO REDUCE OUR NON CUSTOMER FACING STAFF BY 25%” SAYS BRITISH GAS BOSS
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12 Febraury 2010
British Gas denial of job losses does not square with email from top boss Bentley saying “The formation of One British Gas gives us the one off air cover to do this this year” according to GMB |
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BASILDON’S CAB TRADE THROWS DOWN GAUNTLET TO COUNCIL OVER TOO MANY LICENSES
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12 Febraury 2010
This leads to drivers pay declining and them having to work 80 to 90 hrs a week to make ends meet |
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GMB WATER INDUSTRY WORKPLACE REPRESENTATIVES MEET IN LONDON TODAY TO CONSIDER RESPONSE TO PLANNED JOB LOSSES
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27 January 2010
Representatives will debate a nationally coordinated industrial campaign against the further outsourcing of essential maintenance and engineering jobs says GMB |
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GMB PUBLISH FOR EACH COUNTY IN GREAT BRITAIN DETAILS OF OCCUPATIONS OF TORY CANDIDATES SELECTED TO STAND FOR GENERAL ELECTION
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27 January 2010
As less than 1% are from the six lower occupational groups employing 56% of the UK workforce they are still wholly unrepresentative of the UK workforce new GMB study shows |
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| GMB AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNIONS OUTRAGED AT PAY FREEZE |
27 January 2010
David Cameron needs to reign in his right-wing maverick Tories who run councils and have the audacity to think that this 2.5 % real terms pay cut for staff is how to deliver local services
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UK MAY BE TURNING THE CORNER ON UNEMPLOYMENT BUT THOSE WITHOUT JOBS AND YOUNG WORKERS ARE PAYING A VERY HIGH PRICE FOR THIS BANKERS RECESSION SAYS GMB
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27 January 2010
Like the untouchable and unaccountable landed aristocratic elite before them the grip on political power of the multi-millionaire elite will have to be similarly ended says union |
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GMB HITS BACK AT POLITICAL SCAREMONGERING ON THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE £120BN LOCAL GOVERNMENT PENSION SCHEME
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27 January 2010
The debate about pensions must not be allowed to become a race to the bottom says GMB |
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£60B LOCAL GOVERNMENT PENSION DEFICIT IS SCAREMONGERING AND WRONG SAYS GMB
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18 January 2010
Reacting to today's Lib Dem comment on public sector pensions GMB, which represents hundreds or thousands of public sector workers commented |
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GMB WELCOMES GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCEMENT OF 4000 NEW COUNCIL HOMES
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18 January 2010
There is now £500m worth of public investment to build new homes for families giving 8,000 people the chance to live in good homes says GMB |
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GMB Members Working On Ealing Refuse Contract Worried About Public Safety Issues
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18 January 2010
GMB sure the public also support and recognise the duty of care for those workers who collect the refuse in this adverse weather |
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If the temperature drops below these levels the employer is obliged by law to bring in additional heaters to raise temperatures to the legal minimum requirements.
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18 January 2010
John McClean GMB National Health and safety officer said “GMB has had a large volume of calls from members and the public regarding the law on temperatures at work. |
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GMB Condemns The Lack Of A Strategic Plan For Gas As Electricity Prices Are Set To Soar
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18 January 2010
GMB, the largest union in the gas industry believes that the cold weather and National Grid saying that demand for gas is outstripping supply highlights the lack of a strategic plan for the gas industry. The union argues that the laissez fare approach to energy has left the country vulnerable and bereft of a long term vision for gas. Whilst there has been a focus on "clean" electricity from renewables and nuclear, gas has been neglected. |
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GMB URGE CHELMSFORD COUNCIL TO THINK AGAIN ABOUT ISSUES RELATING TO THE TAXI DISPUTE AND ASKS CHELMSFORD DRIVERS TO HEED VINTNERS WARNING AS PLANS GO AHEAD FOR NEW YEAR STRIKE ACTION
Taxi Strike Will Lead To Drink Driving Says Vintners
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16 December 2009
At a recent between GMB including the Chelmsford Taxi Association (CTA) and the Chelmsford Vintners Association, the Vintners expressed their deep concern at the prospect of no cabs in Chelmsford over New Year as a result of the strike action by GMB members who work as cabbies in Chelmsford. |
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| The fact is that Tata to which National Grid will be outsourcing work is denying workers (in the country to which that work will be outsourced) basic human rights in withholding wages and rations |
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16 December 2009
GMB will stage a protest outside the Tata sponsored Utility Industry achievement awards in London on Monday 14th December over National Grid outsourcing jobs from Newcastle upon Tyne to Tata in India who have been accused of trying to starve Indian Tea workers back to work through a lock out.
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GMB WELCOMES THE PENSION REGULATOR’S MOVES TO STOP EMPLOYERS PRESSURING WORKERS TO GIVE UP PENSION RIGHTS
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9 December 2009
For too long members have been duped and bullied into accepting derisory cash sums in exchange for valuable pension rights says GMB |
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NEW GMB STUDY REVEALS PFI DEBTS OF £8,400 PER TAXPAYER AND UNION CALLS FOR MORATORIUM ON NEW PFI PROJECTS
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9 December 2009
In total taxpayer will pay £250bn which four times the £64bn value of the assets built in 641 projects shows GMB study |
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REPORTS THAT THE GOVERNMENT PLAN TO INTRODUCE A SUPER TAX ON BANKERS’ BONUSES ARE WELCOME AND LONG OVERDUE SAYS GMB
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9 December 2009
GMB has long argued that any other approach to restraining the greed of the multimillionaire elite than through taxation is futile |
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| 640 JOB CUTS AT BAE IS MORE BAD NEWS FOR THE BELEAGUERED UK ENGINEERING SECTOR SAYS GMB |
1 December 2009
GMB will be seeking meetings with management to establish the where the cuts will fall and to minimize the impact on members affected |
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BBPA CHARTER IGNORES OVERCHARGING OF TENANTS BY THE PUBCOS CAUSING ALL THE DAMAGE AND INJUSTICE IN THE SECTOR SAYS GMB
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26 November 2009
GMB is organising an official industrial action ballot of the tied tenants for an official dispute to secure lower wholesale prices |
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GMB TO CONSULT MEMBERS AT BMI ON POTENTIAL REDUNDANCIES AT THE COMPANY
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26 November 2009
The company has agreed with GMB that it will try to avoid compulsory redundancies |
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OFWAT ANNOUNCEMENT WILL GIVE RISE TO THREAT OF VERY SUBSTANTIAL JOB LOSSES IN WATER COMPANIES SAYS GMB
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26 November 2009
GMB will not stand by and allow this vital public service to be further decimated whilst the private equity owners of the water companies pocket huge profits |
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GMB FORECAST NEW YEAR TRAVEL CHAOS AS MORE CAB STRIKES INEVITABLE UNLESS CHELMSFORD COUNCIL ACTS SOON
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26 November 2009
Regretfully Chelmsford Councillors again refused to instigate a freeze on issuing new cab licenses (plates), acting on, GMB believes, erroneous advice from one of council officers |
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GMB CAUTIOUSLY WELCOMES PROPOSED MERGER BETWEEN BRITISH AIRWAYS AND IBERIA AIRLINES
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16 November 2009
The merger will go some way to ensure that the UK’s major flag carrier stays up there as one of the major airlines of the world says GMB |
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GMB DEMONSTRATION AT BAILIFFS EVICTION OF ADMIRAL TAVERNS CAMBERWELL TIED TENANT ON MONDAY 9TH NOVEMBER AT 9.30AM
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9 November 2009
GMB members are protesting because what we have here is a major corporate entity, Admiral Taverns, using a state instrument, the courts, to enforce an inequitable contact against an isolated tied tenant |
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CHELMSFORD TAXI STRIKES TO CONTINUE AS MP REFUSES TO ASK COUNCIL TO STOP ISSUING NEW LICENSES AND PROSECUTE ILLEGAL CAB DRIVERS
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9 November 2009
GMB professional drivers branch disappointed at outcome of meeting with local MP |
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GMB TO STAGE LONDON DEMONSTRATION TO URGE ON MORRISONS TO COMPENSATE HGV DISTRIBUTION DRIVERS NO LONGER ABLE TO DRIVE
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30 October 2009
3 GMB drivers will demonstrate outside Morrisons Camden supermarket on Wednesday 4th November to highlight failure of company to honour agreement |
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OFFICIAL FIGURES SHOW PERSISTENTLY LOW LEVEL OF SAVINGS FOR PENSIONS WHICH IS SIMPLY STORING UP TROUBLE FOR THE FUTURE SAYS GMB
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30 October 2009
Politicians should be deeply concerned at the failure of the private sector to provide adequate retirement savings levels for its workforce which will in time add major costs to the public purse to top up inadequate pensions |
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GMB SLAMS IMMIGRATION ADVISORY SERVICE OVER THREATS TO CLOSE FOUR OFFICES SACKING 80 WORKERS
There is no redundancy situation at IAS say GMB
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30 October 2009
GMB today called on The Immigration Advisory Service (IAS), the UK’s largest charity providing representation and advice to immigrants and asylum seekers to call an immediate halt to plans to close offices in Cardiff with the loss of 12 jobs, Leicester with 15 jobs threatened, Oakington with 28 jobs under threat and Borough, London with a further 25 jobs threatened making a total of eighty frontline workers threatened with the sack. |
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GMB and other unions are proposing a bottom-loaded increase yielding more for the lowest paid and overall it would add less than 3% to the paybill
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30 October 2009
GMB, UNISON and UNITE public service unions, have today (26 October), submitted a 2.5% or £500 pay claim on behalf of some 1.5 million local government workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The claim covers care assistants, cleaners, teaching assistants, librarians, social workers and refuse collectors among others, who are at the bottom of the public sector pay league. |
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AVERAGE TIED LESSEE OVERCHARGED BY PUBCOS BY AROUND £12,000 PER ANNUM OR £230 PER PUB PER WEEK ACCORDING TO OFT REPORT SAYS GMB
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30 October 2009
If the pub tenants were able to add this £12,000 to their income it would go a long way to resolve the situation whereby according to BEC two-thirds of tenants were earning less than £15,000 a year |
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GMB SET UP PHONE HOTLINE FOR PUBLIC TO REPORT LAW BREAKING BY EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES SUPPLYING LABOUR IN ROYAL MAIL DISPUTE
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30 October 2009
These agencies are liable for a fine of £5,000 per day per worker supplied and GMB is asking public to phone 0208 971 4217 with details |
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IMPASSE AT STANSTED AIRPORT TALKS AS IMPACT OF 90 GROUND STAFF REDUNDANCIES MAY LEAD TO CHRISTMAS FLIGHT DISRUPTION SAYS GMB
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30 October 2009
Ryanair dictating staffing levels at ground handling agent Swissport as 90 staff to be made redundant at end October |
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GMB calls on the government to clarify whether OFGEM should be interfering with regulated pension arrangements when it cannot find any problem with the current system and cannot identify one penny of saving for the consumer
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30 October 2009
Following the publication of OFGEM’s latest consultation, which closes on 13 November 09, on pension schemes in the gas and electricity industries which threaten the stability of the industries’ occupational pension schemes GMB today called on the government to act. |
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GMB tells BBPA that there is no competition law that stops us talking about fair wholesale prices and securing a decent living for pub tenants.
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19 October 2009
GMB rejected a claim by Mark Hastings, director of communications at the BBPA that GMB in seeking to cut wholesale prices for tenants was asking for something that is illegal (See GMB statement in notes to Editors below). Mark Hasting has said "What GMB are asking for is against the law. They should know better. Any industry wide agreement on margin protection is a clear breach of competition law." |
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Employee contributions in particular have gone up by 15% to just under £2 billion a year new figures show
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19 October 2009
Official statistics released today by the Department for Communities and Local Government on the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) in England show that cash flow into the LGPS remains very strong, with income exceeding expenditure by over £4billion for the year, maintaining the pattern of previous years. Employee contributions in particular have gone up by 15% to just under £2billion a year. |
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| LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE BACKS MANIFESTO PLEDGE FOR UNIVERSAL FREE SCHOOL MEALS FOR PRIMARY CHILDREN WORTH £25 PER WEEK FOR A FAMILY WITH TWO CHILDREN |
19 October 2009
It’s a fact that well fed and nourished children are healthier and healthy children behave and learn better say GMB President |
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USING TIPS TO TOP UP WAGES TO NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE IS OUTLAWED FROM TOMORROW
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19 October 2009
Uprating the National Minimum Wage comes into effect tomorrow with workers aged 22 and over getting an increase from £5.73 to £5.80 an hour |
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