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GMB on long term unemployment

Tuesday 22nd May 2012

NHS GMB members vote no on pensions

Tuesday 22nd May 2012

GMB press releases on Energy Bill

Tuesday 22nd May 2012

GMB calls on Nestle to diversify into dairy related products to provide secure future for Girvan plant and save jobs

Tuesday 22nd May 2012

Punch debt equity swap

Monday 21st May 2012

Stansted airport strike back on

Monday 21st May 2012

New ministerial statement on future of Remploy - trade union response

Thursday 17th May 2012

Tories target little kids with 43% cCuts

Wednesday 16th May 2012

GMB on unemployment statistics

Wednesday 16th May 2012

GMB celebrates international Nurses Day on 12th May in the midst of 'torrid' time for the NHS

Friday 11th May 2012

Tory/Lib Dem government u-turn over fighter aircraft for Royal Navy carriers is incompetant squandering of £250m of taxpayers money, says GMB

Friday 11th May 2012

GMB seeks urgent talks as Stephen Twigg says that 'labour has no desire to turn back the clock' on Tory academies programme

Thursday 10th May 2012

Carillion continue to demonstrate all the urgency of a sundial

Thursday 10th May 2012

Queen's Speech 2012: Competition will not solve root causes of water shortages but will make them more likely and make water even more expensive

Wednesday 9th May 2012

Remploy May 9th London protest

Thursday 3rd May 2012

Carillion uncovers evidence of bribery and shakedowns at Swindon hospital but fails to dealw ith cover up institutional bullying

Thursday 3rd May 2012

Terra Firma buys Four Seasons

Monday 30th April 2012

GMB appeal to Labour court over equality tribunal failure to protect Irish workers discriminated on electriciy power line jobs

Thursday 26th April 2012

Dick Turpin and Black Bess pub protest

Thursday 26th April 2012

Wigan Council by paying £250 pay rise to staff is first to break local government pay deadlock says GMB

Tuesday 24th April 2012

214,000 job losses in councils demonstrate why the economy has gone backwards since the election says GMB

Tuesday 24th April 2012

GMB welcomes Ken Livingstone call to Michael Gove to stop unlawful sale of 5 acres of Putney school playing fields

Tuesday 24th April 2012

£500,000 scholarship for teaching assistants working with special needs pupils while welcome is a 'drop in the ocean'

Monday 23rd April 2012

GMB members overtime ban at Imperial Tobacco in Nottingham over company passing on the cost of £288 annual car parking levy to employees

Monday 23rd April 2012

Deadline for bids for 500 Four Seasons UK care homes as company seeks solution to £780m loans due to be repaid by September

Friday 20th April 2012

GMB call on Boris Johnson to make clear where he stands on Addison Lee boss call for mini cab drivers break the law using bus lanes

Friday 20th April 2012

Aquascutum enters into administratin with the loss of 115 jobs in Corby

Thursday 19th April 2012

GMB supports nuclear conference

Wednesday 18th April 2012

Why should bodies that promote free markets and free schools be entitlted to taxpayer funded subsidies via charity status? asks GMB

Monday 16th April 2012

Carillion Swindon second investigation to reach conculsions on April 27 on bullying and harassment greivances by GMB members

Monday 16th April 2012

Pension changes proposed by Taxpayers Alliance will cost taxpayers billions says GMB

Friday 13th April 2012

BA job losses Gatwick

Thursday 12th April 2012

Talk of international electricity cable from Iceland is 'fig leaf' to cover lack of UK energy strategy, says GMB

Thursday 12th April 2012

170 job losses and outsourcing of 400 jobs at BA Gatwick will damage staff morale in run-up to Olympics says GMB

Wednesday 11th April 2012

Demonstrations in Norwich and London and public meeting in London to save Remploy factories from closure

Wednesday 11th April 2012

Raising qualifying period to take claim for unfair dismissal to two years from tomorrow for new employees is unfair

Thursday 5th April 2012

GMB members Easter strike action as cuts in terms and conditions are imposed at Cheshire West and Chester Council

Thursday 5th April 2012

GMB calls on water companies to put in place plans to import water to London, South East and East as hosepipe bans impacts on 20 million people

Wednesday 4th April 2012

GMB Stansted strike off

Wednesday 4th April 2012

Budget cash handouts for rich

Wednesday 4th April 2012

GMB call on Marks and Spencer to give staff a paid day off for the Queen's jubilee holiday on June 5

Tuesday 3rd April 2012

GMB in talks today to avert Stansted airport bank holiday stoppage

Tuesday 3rd April 2012

GMB on nuclear power

Monday 2nd April 2012

ACAS intervene in Stansted strike

Monday 2nd April 2012

Women's jobs hit by cuts

Wednesday 28th March 2012

Total of £647,544 support for Michael Gove confirms that Tory party is the political wing of the rich and elite

Monday 26th March 2012

GMB welcome Nestle investment to Ayrshire plant but call on comapny to rethink 20 job cuts

Thursday 22nd March 2012

Remploy demo in Edinburgh tomorrow (22 March) as promoter of Remploy closures speaks at conference on disability rights

Wednesday 21st March 2012

381,000 public sector jobs gone

Wednesday 21st March 2012

GMB to ballot 150 members employed as baggage handers by Stansted airport contractor Swissport on pay cuts up to £1,000 a year

Tuesday 20th March 2012

GMB dsimayed at court decision to uphold government switch to CPI indexation cutting public sector pensions by 15 per cent

Tuesday 20th March 2012

25.7 of all workers in the UK are employed part-time while the Shetland Islands tops the GB league with 34.3 per cent of workers in part-time jobs

Tuesday 20th March 2012

GMB on national minimum wage rise

Monday 19th March 2012

Thames flood danger

Monday 19th March 2012

UK economy is in a hole

Wednesday 14th March 2012

Second year of pay freeze in the NHS 'adds insult to injury' for staff facing increases in pensions contributions

Tuesday 13th March 2012

GMB call on Norvic, a Norwich based private ambulance provider to scrap £48 charge to jobless to be considered for work

Monday 12th March 2012

Private equity leads to job losses

Monday 12th March 2012

GMB welcome belated plan by Thames Water to move water from West of Britain as South East and East households face hose pipe ban

Monday 12th March 2012

Members in NHS and civil service to be consulted on final proposals on pensions published by government today

Friday 9th March 2012

GMB condems government decision to close 36 Remploy factories

Wednesday 7th March 2012

NHS pension contribution increases, coupled with the moves to force health workers to work longer, seriously threaten the on-going viability of the pension scheme warns GMB

Wednesday 7th March 2012

Is closure of Oxfordshire care home transferred from Southern Cross to Four Seasons linked to debt mountain?

Tuesday 6th March 2012

GMB warns that UK will lose over 140,000 jobs without urgent action on aviation

Tuesday 6th March 2012

93% rejection of 30% cuts in wages by GMB members at Aberdeenshire Council

Friday 2nd March 2012

GMB gives PFI contractor Carillion notice of another 12 days of strike action at Great Western Hospital Swindon

Thursday 1st March 2012

Minister should visit infrastructure site to see good and bad inustrial relations practices

Wednesday 29th February 2012

Demo over sale of playing fields

Tuesday 28th February 2012

Use carbon taxes to insulate homes

Tuesday 28th February 2012

Stop PFI tax dodging on NHS cash

Monday 27th February 2012

GMB at EU sugar forum

Friday 24th February 2012

Build royal navy tankers in the UK

Thursday 23rd February 2012

London transport unions to help strikers

Wednesday 22nd February 2012

GMB on Liam Fox twaddle

Wednesday 22nd February 2012

Hands off casino tips

Tuesday 21st February 2012

Ed Balls is right to call for reflating the economy and Labour should also support easing public sector pay restraint as an essential ingredient to get economy moving says GMB

Tuesday 21st February 2012

Water summit should support plans to increase water supply for South East and Eastern England from the West of Britain says GMB

Monday 20th February 2012

Dublin equality tribunal to hear discrimination claim of overheard libeman refused job by firm requiring workers speak Portuguese in Ireland for health and safety reasons

Monday 20th February 2012

GMB members employed by Carollion at Great Western Hospital Swindon to stage demonstrations in Swindon and London as they strike for two more days

Friday 17th February 2012

Austerity means 2.67m not working

Wednesday 15th February 2012

GMB position on public sector pensions negotiations and political links

Tuesday 14th February 2012

GMB publish internal East of England ambulance service report as the service fails quality target in December 2011

Tuesday 14th February 2012

GPs need to come clean on £370m cuts

Monday 13th February 2012

Dorset NHS no day for Queen's jubilee

Monday 13th February 2012

Four Seasons month without pay

Friday 10th February 2012

Four Seasons need £780m new money

Wednesday 8th February 2012

GMB call on Edinburgh Woollen Mill to change stance by giving staff additional bank holiday for Queens Diamond Jubilee

Tuesday 7th February 2012

RPI v CPI appeal Feb 20th

Monday 6th February 2012

£1.1bn uncollected local taxes

Thursday 2nd February 2012

GMB warns of dangers from asbestos in schools as new all party report set outs six action points to protect pupils and staff from hidden killer

Thursday 2nd February 2012

Brulines weights and measures guidance

Wednesday 1st February 2012

Fire and emergency demo

Wednesday 1st February 2012

Ed Davey has been taken for gullible fool as Punch man is appointed to chair "independent" pub disputes panel

Tuesday 31st January 2012

GMB fire services members demonstrate

Tuesday 31st January 2012

IFS shoddy pensions report

Tuesday 31st January 2012

GMB on RBS bonus

Friday 27th January 2012

The recession has cost 706,300 manufacturing jobs in the UK with an average 3,398 jobs lost per week

Thursday 26th January 2012

Remploy strike 26th January

Wednesday 25th January 2012

GMB call for shipbuilding future

Tuesday 24th January 2012

Cable fails to curb high pay

Monday 23rd January 2012

The prime minister's proposals on co-operatives should be immediately tested in the collapsed elderly care sector

Thursday 19th January 2012

Reopen policy on building third runway at Heathrow airport to safeguard economic prosperity

Wednesday 18th January 2012

Rise in unemployment made in Downing St as jobs haemorrhage in public and private sectors

Wednesday 18th January 2012

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