Posted: 1st December 2015
I’ve just signed the petition “Every school-based support staff deserves 52 weeks pay and to be given the recognition that they deserve. Pay your school-based support staff/teaching assistants – they don’t get paid enough” and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.
Our goal is to reach 35,000 signatures and we need more support.…
Posted: 9th November 2015
A majority of members will experience either no change to their pension arrangements or be better off particularly our women members in the call centres says GMB.
A workplace ballot is currently underway for GMB members in EDF energy on a proposed agreement on pensions covering over 15,000 staff across EDF. The new proposed new…
Posted: 9th November 2015
Big brands should pay £10 per hour living wage, end zero hours contracts and confront bullying managers to bring security to the mainly young worker says GMB.
GMB members will hold 9 protest demonstrations outside fast food outlets and M&S on Tuesday 10th November across England in solidarity with members of the SEIU working in…
Posted: 9th November 2015
We expect Business Secretary, Sajid Javid, and his counterparts across Europe to make some serious decisions today to tackle the major threats facing the industry says GMB.
GMB, the union for steel workers, is attending a rally in Brussels on Monday 9th November to press the UK and EU governments to ‘Save our Steel’ and…
Posted: 30th September 2015
Available to all London Region members only.
Established in 1997 the John Cope Trust offers Branch members in the London Region, in need of additional financial assistance, wishing to undertake additional training or further education. This may be vocational, occupational or linked to the Labour or Trade Union movements.
The Trust recognises that while members…
Posted: 30th September 2015
School Support Staff are more likely to experience violence at work than almost any other group of workers in the UK. Being attacked either verbally or physically is not part of the job. GMB members say that many incidents go unreported.
So being part of GMB is one of most important decisions anyone working with…
Posted: 30th September 2015
Pension scheme cuts paying inadequate pensions are leading to pensioners still being at work aged 70 and over says GMB.
With the working poor unable to retire we are entering a new normal of working purgatory until you die and is the other side of the coin to the rich getting richer says GMB.
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