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DM | Why don't you want our children to have as good an education as you,Nick?
21:19Peter Hitchens Blog
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In a horrible, ignorant speech last week, the Deputy Prime Minister revealed himself as a limited, conformist slave to conventional wisdom. He is also a wretched, skulking hypocrite, as I shall explai...
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Alex Forrest | MOD announces soldier from 1st battalion The Royal Welsh has been killed in Helm...
19:47Alex Forrest
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MOD announces soldier from 1st battalion The Royal Welsh has been killed in Helmand, Afghanistan. His vehicle was caught in IED blast.
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@LouiseMensch fundraising for LibDems. Fascinating in itself AND prob.will be mo...
19:28Marcus A. Roberts
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@LouiseMensch fundraising for LibDems. Fascinating in itself AND prob.will be most successful £drive since 2010.Epic own goal by #ukuncut
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Inexcusable to intimidate Clegg's family. Self-indulgent, horrible, counter-prod...
18:51Jamie Reed
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Inexcusable to intimidate Clegg's family. Self-indulgent, horrible, counter-productive.
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Caron | Cut Tim Farron a bit of slack over accreditation!
18:40Caron's Musings
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As you know, I am very much opposed to accreditation for party members for our Conference. When I had the chance to vote on it as a member of FFAC, I opposed it and would do so again - every time. Thi...
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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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