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855 jobs underthreat

Wednesday 21st December 2011

New statement on LGPS

Wednesday 21st December 2011

GMB on LGPS

Tuesday 20th December 2011

Unilever strike plan

Monday 19th December 2011

160 jobs under threat in Havering

Friday 16th December 2011

Christmas misery for jobless

Wednesday 14th December 2011

370,600 public sector jobs lost across UK since general election shown in GMB analysis of employment figures

Wednesday 14th December 2011

National Grid bullying

Tuesday 13th December 2011

GMB members in Great Western Hospital in Swindon to ballot for action

Monday 12th December 2011

Stop sale of playing fields

Monday 12th December 2011

GMB calls on government to act on 'underfilling' in pubs as 95 per cent minimum liquid in glass becomes the maximum in pub chains

Monday 12th December 2011

Remploy parliamentary debate

Friday 9th December 2011

East Yorkshire BAE workers head to Westminster on December 14 to plead with MPs for a future

Friday 9th December 2011

GMB says that movement in NHS pensions is not enough to settle pensions dispute

Thursday 8th December 2011

GMB to meet Veolia to raise concerns over sale of water companies in South East

Wednesday 7th December 2011

145,000 fewer council jobs

Tuesday 6th December 2011

Four Seasons - son of Southern Cross

Monday 5th December 2011

Now it's official - drinkers short-changed by under-filling glasses by 3 per cent in Britain's pubs

Monday 5th December 2011

Lord Hutton on pension cuts fails to recognise that public sector is already bearing the brunt of cuts

Monday 5th December 2011

More support for Remploy

Friday 2nd December 2011

GMB along with the other steel unions will work with the company to mitigate any compulsory job losses

Friday 2nd December 2011

60 per cent of Tory party donaction in Q3 2011 come from finance and city new GMB analysis shows

Thursday 1st December 2011

GMB refute claim by secretary of state that local government talks were 'close to a deal'

Wednesday 30th November 2011

New 'Osborne recession' is price of failed gamble on 400,000 public sector job cuts and blaming the EU won't wash says GMB

Tuesday 29th November 2011

East of England councils and Remploy

Tuesday 29th November 2011

November 30th rallies

Tuesday 29th November 2011

GMB unilever yes to strike on pensions

Monday 28th November 2011

Pub closures will continue says GMB

Thursday 24th November 2011

Home care not compatible with profits

Wednesday 23rd November 2011

GMB shocked a EHRC failure to identify that private sector aim of making money is not compatitble with delivering decent home care

Wednesday 23rd November 2011

Lib Dem changes will make it harder for hundreds of thousands of workers to bring cases of vicitimisation, unfairness and bullying at work

Wednesday 23rd November 2011

GMB ask for meeting with Ken Clarke over fears government is working to weaken the proposed EU victims rights package

Wednesday 16th November 2011

GMB survey show 55 per cent of members will opt out of the local government pensions scheme if government increases contributions and reduces benefits

Tuesday 15th November 2011

GMB reaction to privatisation of Hinchingbrooke healthcare NHS trust

Thursday 10th November 2011

GMB slam chancellor's opposition to robin hood tax at EU finance minister meeting

Wednesday 9th November 2011

GMB back call to halt feed-in tariff cut for solar energy industry

Monday 7th November 2011

Remploy trade unions present 100,000 signature petition to Downing Street on Monday November 7th in fight to save factories

Friday 4th November 2011

GMB statement on the proposed sale of BMI

Friday 4th November 2011

Government's new pension offer is welcome but may be too little too late to avert strikes

Wednesday 2nd November 2011

G20 must 'drop obsession with free markets'

Tuesday 1st November 2011

Southern Cross last transfer of homes to Four Seasons

Monday 31st October 2011

Tories to scrap unfair dismissal

Wednesday 26th October 2011

Pensions RPI court hearing

Tuesday 25th October 2011

Women council job losses

Tuesday 25th October 2011

Lansley not listening to the NHS staff at talks to avert strike action make no progress says GMB

Friday 14th October 2011

Government policy on economy is hurting but not working says GMB as unemployment rises to 2.57 million

Wednesday 12th October 2011

101,094 jobs lost in English councils

Monday 10th October 2011

Union members at Remploy to be balloted over below inflation pay offer as unions complain of £1.9m paid to top managers

Thursday 6th October 2011

GMB discovers extent of PFI payments at South Ayrshire Council

Thursday 6th October 2011

GMB call for investment to create jobs and growth in all sectors of the economy as ONS revise down GDP growth

Wednesday 5th October 2011

UK growth slower - official

Wednesday 5th October 2011

Four Seasons earn £8,408 per bed

Tuesday 4th October 2011

Tory claim that cutting rights to appeal to employment tribunal on unfair dismissals will lead to new jobs is absurd says GMB

Monday 3rd October 2011

Social spy at work

Friday 30th September 2011

GMB warn on Four Seasons

Friday 30th September 2011

GMB welcome new employment rights for agency workers from October 2011

Thursday 29th September 2011

Four Seasons healthcare take over 145 Southern Cross care homes is 'jumping from the frying pan into the fire'

Wednesday 28th September 2011

GMB on Ed Miliband speech

Tuesday 27th September 2011

New LGA pension plans merit further consdieration but GMB warns that official government proposals are the problem

Friday 23rd September 2011

20 year old GMB member on TUC general council

Thursday 22nd September 2011

Further talks on local government pensions tomorrow to avert national strike action on November 30

Tuesday 20th September 2011

Remploy demo Liberal Democrat party conference - Sunday

Friday 16th September 2011

GMB dispute Lord Hutton claims on cost of public service pensions as a proportion of GD

Thursday 15th September 2011

Paul Kenny, GMB general secretary, elected as next TUC president

Thursday 15th September 2011

Public sector workers are angry and frustrated by vilification of their jobs

Wednesday 14th September 2011

GMB announce plans to ballot 300,000 members in public services dispute over pensions

Wednesday 14th September 2011

Unemployment figures confirm that the recovery from the banker's recession has stalled

Wednesday 14th September 2011

What comes across is that Labour leader is not ashamed of the trade union links with the Labour Party says GMB

Tuesday 13th September 2011

Average price for lager has risen by 80p a pint faster than inflation

Monday 12th September 2011

Gold plated pensions? Only for chief officers

Thursday 8th September 2011

GMB Remploy meeting in Manchester

Thursday 8th September 2011

Tory threat to the NHS

Friday 2nd September 2011

GMB supplied with list of over 30 prospective operators 691 Southern Cross carehomes

Wednesday 31st August 2011

North East top of UK league for unemployment as economy stalls GMB study shows

Monday 22nd August 2011

Southern Cross landlords miss deadline

Wednesday 17th August 2011

British Gas sales team redeployed

Friday 12th August 2011

Closure of Sellafield nuclear fuelplant is a devastating blow says GMB

Wednesday 3rd August 2011

Schools in England excluded in pupils in 156,320 cases of physical or verbal abuse against adults in 2009/10

Tuesday 2nd August 2011

Government is defaulting on pension promises from the £1,100bn Treasury has been paid as deferred wages for public sector workers for their pensions says GMB

Thursday 28th July 2011

GMB welcomes Glastonbury joining call for sweat free mechandise at the London Olympics

Tuesday 26th July 2011

GMB calls on government to boost demand to get the economy moving as recovery from bankers' recessesion stalls

Tuesday 26th July 2011

37 per cent redundancy at academy school

Wednesday 20th July 2011

Public sector pensions

Tuesday 19th July 2011

Notice of 3,000 redundancies at Southern Cross withdrawn

Thursday 14th July 2011

Public sector pensions are affordable and exaggerating estimates of future liabilities is misleading

Wednesday 13th July 2011

GMB calls on government to cut VAT to 17.5% to boost growth to create jobs

Wednesday 13th July 2011

Local government pensions healthy

Tuesday 12th July 2011

More than half of Southern Cross Care Homes due to be taken back by landlords are based outside the UK mainly in tax havens

Monday 11th July 2011

GMB congress calls for toothless Press Complaints Commission to give way to independent regulator with proper powers to end press abuses

Thursday 7th July 2011

GMB fears Tory break up of NHS on the 63rd anniversary of its foundation on July 5 1948

Tuesday 5th July 2011

Prime minister should call in decision involving loss of 1,400 manufacturing jobs in Derby says GMB

Tuesday 5th July 2011

Free from cradle to grave

Monday 4th July 2011

Employers treat local government craftworkers with contempt says GMB

Monday 4th July 2011

Mr Cameron has restated the government case for reform but has said nothing on the scope for negotiations says GMB

Tuesday 28th June 2011

GMB on local government pension talks

Tuesday 28th June 2011

GMB has written to 11 Southern Cross landlords setting out legal rights of staff in landlords take control of homes

Thursday 16th June 2011

GMB interim response to the NHS Future Forum recommendations

Wednesday 15th June 2011

GB job vacancy ratio

Tuesday 7th June 2011

PAC on pension costs - parliamentary committee report shows public sector pensions are affordable

Thursday 26th May 2011

GMB sponsor 'Birmingham Pride'

Tuesday 24th May 2011

GMB congress 2011

Tuesday 24th May 2011

LuDun survey

Friday 20th May 2011

GMB comment on Southern Cross care homes announcement of £300m loss in interim results today

Thursday 19th May 2011

Report on nuclear safety

Wednesday 18th May 2011

GMB welcome plans to consult on proposed changes to flexible working and parental leave

Tuesday 17th May 2011

Lib Dem MPs must pull plug on NHS Bill as Cameron advisor says 'NHS will be shown no mercy'

Friday 13th May 2011

GMB calls on Michael Gove to honour government pledge of pay rise for school support staff

Monday 9th May 2011

Beer sales in pubs down 39 per cent

Friday 6th May 2011

One in four not in council pension

Tuesday 3rd May 2011

Jobless welders for power station jobs

Tuesday 3rd May 2011

GMB to support Mayday 2011 events across the UK to celebrate

Thursday 28th April 2011

GMB tracks jobs under threat/already gone at 331 local authorities

Thursday 21st April 2011

GMB warns lives could be put at risk by 900 job cuts at London Ambulance Service

Friday 15th April 2011

GMB on unemployment

Wednesday 13th April 2011

Tory/Lib Dem governent devoid of any understanding of the misery it is creating with mass unemployment

Wednesday 13th April 2011

ICB report: Banking Commission plan is for damage limitation not a plan to ensure that retail banks don't go bust again

Monday 11th April 2011

National min wage 15p rise

Thursday 7th April 2011

Government are taking time out to sell the Health Bill rather than listen to the public

Wednesday 6th April 2011

GMB driving instructors

Monday 4th April 2011

GMB welcomes Additional Paternity Leave

Monday 4th April 2011

The real question on pension reform green paper is what the government is taking away not what it is promising to provide says GMB

Monday 4th April 2011

Patients and staff will be the losers of NHS 'reforms'

Friday 1st April 2011

GMB say next step after TUC march is to turn May 5 votes into referendum on government policies

Monday 28th March 2011

GMB analysis of official figures released today shows that on in five workers aged 16 to 24 are unemployed

Thursday 24th March 2011

TUC analysis shows that unemployment is twice as high for asian and black communities

Wednesday 23rd March 2011

Budget 2011: Council workers furious as chancellor breaks promise of 250 pounds rise for 800,000 low paid council staff

Wednesday 23rd March 2011

Budget 2011: GMB response

Wednesday 23rd March 2011

Hutton pension proposals will leave many low paid workers worse off

Wednesday 23rd March 2011

GMB backs transaction tax

Wednesday 23rd March 2011

GMB analysis shows that 26,219 jobs were lost in 375 councils between Q1 and Q3 of 2010

Tuesday 22nd March 2011

Official survey gives insight into working practices at every NHS trust in England

Thursday 17th March 2011

66 central Bedfordshire councillors received £1,073,627 in expenses in 2009/2010 from local tax payers

Thursday 17th March 2011

GMB comment on unemployment figures

Wednesday 16th March 2011

GMB tracks jobs under threat in the public sector

Tuesday 15th March 2011

Top public sector pay review is a mixed bag

Tuesday 15th March 2011

Hutton: More recipie for disaster than blueprint for reform

Thursday 10th March 2011

GMB no to police staff cuts

Thursday 10th March 2011

GMB comment on Hutton Report

Thursday 10th March 2011

GMB celebrate 100th international women's day

Tuesday 8th March 2011

GMB calls for more apprentices

Monday 7th March 2011

GMB warns that government attacks and Hutton report could destroy public services pensions savings

Monday 7th March 2011

GMB says there is no reason to move the May Day public holiday to create a new public holiday

Friday 4th March 2011

Help Britons overseas

Monday 28th February 2011

Vote For EU finance tax

Friday 25th February 2011

184,073 public sector jobs already under threat as prime minister pledges to sell-off and privatise all public services

Monday 21st February 2011

GMB calls on parliament to insert wording on the Health and Social Care Bill to stop additional bonuses for already well paid GPs

Monday 21st February 2011

GMB says government plan to shift cost of local council penision scheme to employees will kill one of the best saving schemes in the world

Monday 21st February 2011

GMB slam council pay freeze

Friday 18th February 2011

Number of town hall workers - excluding education - has gone down, not up as Tory minister wrongly claims

Friday 18th February 2011

GMB to oppose 2.500 job cuts for MoD contruction and maintainance staff

Thursday 17th February 2011

Minister Pickles attack on council chief executives pay is a political fig leaf to distract attention from the cuts he has imposed

Wednesday 16th February 2011

This rise in unemployment is no suprise since the government itself is deliberately creating unemployment with public sector cuts

Wednesday 16th February 2011

Remploy strike ballot

Tuesday 15th February 2011

162,718 posts under threat at 290 authorities due to government spending cuts

Monday 14th February 2011

GMB warns that already well paid GPs will award themselves even higher pay if NHS Bill gives GP's responsibility for NHS budgets

Friday 11th February 2011

Councils merge services

Wednesday 9th February 2011

Over half the jobs in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales held by women

Wednesday 9th February 2011

GMB rejects CPM group directors claim that financial pressures are reason for not giving staff day off with pay for Royal wedding

Tuesday 8th February 2011

GMB on multiculturalism

Monday 7th February 2011

The Institute of Directors are 'extremist fundamentalists' on social and economic issues

Monday 7th February 2011

Remploy disabled workers seej authority from GMB central executive council for strike ballot over redundancies

Wednesday 2nd February 2011

GMB comment on the Educaton Bill

Thursday 27th January 2011

New GMB list shows 140,456 jobs under threat at 203 authorities

Monday 24th January 2011

GMB advice to school staff

Friday 21st January 2011

GMB links 49,000 rise in unemployment to 125,894 job losses in 165 local authorities

Wednesday 19th January 2011

GMB calls for rethink of unjustified 900m pounds stealth tax on council pension savers

Wednesday 19th January 2011

GMB deplores leaking of voluntary redundancy plan for disabled workers to national media

Tuesday 18th January 2011

GMB welcome announcement on planned sharing of maternity leave between parents

Monday 17th January 2011

NHS increment freeze rejected by GMB for NHS workers in hospitals, ambulance services and the community

Thursday 13th January 2011

GMB calls on MPs to vote to save EMA when issue is debated in the House of Commons

Thursday 13th January 2011

Jobs under threat at 131 councils

Monday 10th January 2011

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