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Cash avaliable to save LuDun, says GMB

Monday 27th December 2010

87,374 jobs threatened

Wednesday 22nd December 2010

Cuts, contracting out and red tape

Monday 20th December 2010

13 million pounds for bankers free school

Wednesday 15th December 2010

GMB on unemployment

Wednesday 15th December 2010

GMB rebuts pension deficit

Wednesday 15th December 2010

GMB shocked that government plans to scrap 19 minute ambulance response time target

Tuesday 14th December 2010

Devastating council settlement confirms huge job losses

Monday 13th December 2010

GMB support demonstrations against increases in tuition fees and scrapping of education maintenance allowance

Wednesday 8th December 2010

Council job losses

Wednesday 8th December 2010

Councils owe staff 1.25bn pounds

Monday 6th December 2010

GMB comment on the phasing out of the Security Industry Authority

Friday 3rd December 2010

OBR forecast 'cold comfort'

Monday 29th November 2010

3 workers chase each vacancy

Wednesday 24th November 2010

Job cuts at councils near 50,000 as 13 councils announce a further 9,900 jobs under threat

Tuesday 23rd November 2010

Theresa May speech on equality is the modern version of Norman Tebbit's 'get on your bike'

Wednesday 17th November 2010

GBM call on government to honour pledge to stop pay cuts for local government workers

Tuesday 16th November 2010

AZ strikes resume

Wednesday 10th November 2010

Ambulance response times

Monday 8th November 2010

GMB asks government to stop bonus payments of up to £10,000 for 300 senior managers in Remploy

Friday 5th November 2010

GMB says 3 per cent pension tax on council workers is a disaster

Thursday 4th November 2010

55% rise in directors pay is scandalous as workers suffer real cuts in their pay and to their services

Thursday 28th October 2010

Pensions opt in or out?

Thursday 28th October 2010

£1bn pension raid on council workers is wrong and unsustainable

Tuesday 26th October 2010

GMB call on British Gas to abide by transfer law for smart meter staff or face vote for industrial action

Monday 25th October 2010

New Corus owners forcast up to 1000 jobs at plant

Friday 22nd October 2010

GMB response to the spending review

Wednesday 20th October 2010

These new nuclear power stations are absolutely essential

Monday 18th October 2010

Defence review will contain make or break decisions for UK ship building

Monday 18th October 2010

Health and safety report branded 'disappointing'

Friday 15th October 2010

Time to investigate the OFT?

Thursday 14th October 2010

Latest HMRC figures show unsteady and uneven recovery in alcohol volumes released for UK consumption

Wednesday 13th October 2010

Tory pension cuts to start to bite

Tuesday 12th October 2010

GMB welcomes the comprehensive report 'How Fair is Britain?' by the EHRC

Monday 11th October 2010

GMB welcome gender and race balance of the shadow cabinet

Friday 8th October 2010

Over 1,500 jobs to go at Sellafield as GMB fear further job losses due to spending cuts

Thursday 7th October 2010

GMB says there is no green light to attack public sector pensions

Thursday 7th October 2010

GMB on Hutton

Thursday 7th October 2010

GMB report shows some recovery in UK alcohol consumption

Wednesday 6th October 2010

Wandsworth council seeks to cut sick pay, overtime payments; redundancy for council staff

Tuesday 5th October 2010

£5.93 per hour national minimum wage rate from October 1 2010

Thursday 30th September 2010

No one can be in any doubt that the Labour Party has a new, real leader in touch with people - a new generation is in town

Tuesday 28th September 2010

GMB response to SIA review

Thursday 23rd September 2010

GMB sets out sustainable future for local government pension scheme

Wednesday 22nd September 2010

Millions of households across the UK face disruption to bin collection and other public services as workforce consider strike action over cuts in staff and pay

Thursday 16th September 2010

Official figures show pay and pension parity for like for like public and private sector workers

Wednesday 15th September 2010

Mervyn King presided over the Bank of England and he never spoke out about bankers excesses when he should have done says GMB

Wednesday 15th September 2010

Alcohol consumptions in Britain's pubs 25 per cent lower as drinkers switch to lower priced supermarkets

Tuesday 14th September 2010

GMB ground staff at BA Heathrow overwhelming vote to accept deal to assist to secure future of the airline

Monday 13th September 2010

GMB round up shows nearly 150,000 public sector job losses in the pipeline as TUC meets in Manchester

Monday 13th September 2010

Public spending cuts will impact hardest on the old industrial heartlands economies

Thursday 9th September 2010

129 council chief executives in England paid more than £150,000 in 2009/10 new GMB study shows

Thursday 2nd September 2010

GMB members employed by Sandwell council as refuse staff to go on strike over single status agreement

Friday 13th August 2010

GMB to recommend agreement to British Airways Heathrow ground staff who will vote on deal in workplace ballot

Wednesday 11th August 2010

Jobless figures show that Tory gamble with the economy will slow fragile recovery and lead to higher unemployment

Wednesday 11th August 2010

GMB and the alternative vote

Thursday 5th August 2010

GMB warn that tinkering with ambulance response targets could lead to unnecessary deaths

Thursday 5th August 2010

Audit Commission report confirms shortfall in the local government pension scheme is caused by last Tory government

Thursday 29th July 2010

GMB members stunned by further 430 job cuts at Birmingham City Council

Wednesday 28th July 2010

Barnet homes asbestos scare

Tuesday 27th July 2010

GMB members working at Gatwick warn that budget cuts will reduce security and cleanliness levels at airport

Monday 26th July 2010

GMB seeks a judicial review over lawfulness of Barnet Council's decision to hike up councillors allowances

Monday 26th July 2010

GMB members working for Swissport at London Stansted may seek to be balloted for industrial action

Monday 26th July 2010

Government ministers pension pots rocket by £30 million

Friday 23rd July 2010

GMB demand independent investigation into TOTAL's safety record

Thursday 22nd July 2010

GMB calls for a universal national care service

Thursday 22nd July 2010

GMB demands aircraft carrier project lifeline for 10,000 UK jobs

Wednesday 21st July 2010

GMB settles for over £1m for members unfairly sacked by Excelcare

Tuesday 20th July 2010

Time for changes to collection system as £784m goes uncollected in Britain in council tax gathering

Tuesday 20th July 2010

GMB central executive council to nominate Ed Miliband MP for leader of the Labour party

Thursday 15th July 2010

GMB uncover total of 17 head teachers in state schools in England with total remuneration above £150,000

Thursday 15th July 2010

GMB act to protect members pay, conditions & pensions in Hertfordshire schools

Monday 12th July 2010

GMB ballot for industrial action in Cumbria housing company over pay freeze

Friday 9th July 2010

Real value of public sector pensions in payment set to fall by 10% in next five years

Friday 9th July 2010

26,000 Birmingham council employees are theatened with dismissal unless they accept huge pay cuts

Thursday 8th July 2010

American Sugar Refining Inc. gives unions and workforce assurances following take over of Tate and Lyle UK

Wednesday 7th July 2010

£690m spent on consultants by government is a gravy-train for accountants and bankers says GMB

Wednesday 7th July 2010

New proposals slash the current terms and conditions for severance for those employed in the civil service

Tuesday 6th July 2010

GMB calls for 'zero tolerance' of verbal abuse and physical assaults on ambulance staff

Monday 5th July 2010

GMB committed to ensuring continued operation of Tate and Lyle

Thursday 1st July 2010

Academy schools interest

Monday 28th June 2010

Tory-Lib government continue to make the poorest pay for the mistakes of the rich

Thursday 24th June 2010

725,000 public sector job losses

Wednesday 23rd June 2010

GMB on Lib-Tory budget

Tuesday 22nd June 2010

Education day of action

Monday 21st June 2010

GMB on Pensions Commission

Monday 21st June 2010

GMB fear hundreds of thousands will be added to the dole

Wednesday 16th June 2010

GMB stops the loss of Community Day Nursery jobs

Tuesday 15th June 2010

GMB calls on teachers to come clean on academies

Monday 14th June 2010

Jobless and vacancies

Wednesday 9th June 2010

GMB congress calls for local councils to publish figures for assaults on school staff

Tuesday 8th June 2010

UK's dirtiest streets

Monday 7th June 2010

There is a serious worry that premature action by the government will tip the economy back into recession

Monday 24th May 2010

GMB calls on local council employers to make a pay offer

Tuesday 18th May 2010

GMB pledges to support Britain's public services

Wednesday 12th May 2010

GMB brief on 'future jobs fund'

Tuesday 4th May 2010

GMB wins huge equal pay case against Birmingham - Biggest Tory council

Tuesday 27th April 2010

Union awaiting a response to these talks but there are no indications that a positive response will be forthcoming

Tuesday 27th April 2010

GMB 'Workers Memorial Day'

Monday 26th April 2010

GMB says Tory policies ensure poverty in retirement for workers

Friday 23rd April 2010

Latest figures for job seekers allowance confirm that the economy has started to recover

Wednesday 21st April 2010

GMB: The 3% pay increase at JCB takes a somewhat small step towards making up losses during recession

Thursday 15th April 2010

Meeting ambulance targets

Wednesday 14th April 2010

GMB welcomes Labour commitments

Monday 12th April 2010

GMB members from all over UK to march in London

Friday 9th April 2010

GMB call for last ditch talks at AA to avoid strike action

Friday 9th April 2010

GMB win compensation for members who lost jobs at Dunnetts (Birmingham) Ltd

Wednesday 7th April 2010

IFS report demonstrates public sector pension reform is on the right track says GMB

Thursday 1st April 2010

GMB members at Police Federation face closure of final salary pension scheme

Thursday 1st April 2010

28 days holiday

Wednesday 31st March 2010

British Gas and GMB signal beginning of new positive relationship

Wednesday 31st March 2010

Cutting public spend is not on while the super-rich are getting away with contributing nothing

Wednesday 24th March 2010

Fall in unemployment shows that government policies to support the economy are kicking in

Wednesday 17th March 2010

Local government pensions are affordable and sustainable

Thursday 4th March 2010

Real front line council services are already being cut

Monday 1st March 2010

The recession is far from over for employment as the recent large scale job losses show

Wednesday 17th February 2010

'It's a gimmick not a big idea'

Tuesday 16th February 2010

Providing for future generations of pensioners is a key challenge

Thursday 28th January 2010

GMB welcomes the report of the national equality panel

Wednesday 27th January 2010

GMB and local government unions outraged at pay freeze

Wednesday 20th January 2010

Unemployment

Wednesday 20th January 2010

The facts about local government pensions

Tuesday 19th January 2010

Tory spending cuts: A recipe for mass unemployment on a huge scale says GMB

Friday 15th January 2010

£60b Local government pension deficit is scaremongering and wrong says GMB

Friday 15th January 2010

John Denham is right that the experience of race discrimination has changed

Thursday 14th January 2010

GMB welcomes government announcement of 4000 new council homes

Monday 11th January 2010

Union debate in London today on nuclear power role in sustainable energy policy

Monday 11th January 2010

GMB condemns the lack of a strategic plan for gas

Wednesday 6th January 2010

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