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Lack of A and E capacity at London hospitals diverts ambulances putting lives at risk

Wednesday 22nd May 2013

Response to report that MP's pay review body is recommending a 15 per cent rise in MP salaries

Monday 20th May 2013

GMB challenge London ambulance service over proposed changes to ambulance staff skill levels which are detrimental to the public

Monday 20th May 2013

Next retail change hours of working parents in south coast store with little thought given to social impact

Friday 17th May 2013

GMB mobilise for defend London's NHS demonstration on Saturday May 18

Wednesday 15th May 2013

GMB welcome awards from South West TUC For GMB representatives at Carillion in Swindon hospital dispute

Wednesday 15th May 2013

GMB protest on Thursday 16 May at London ceremony as blacklister Carillion is shortlisted for a sustainable business award

Wednesday 15th May 2013

GMB protest at Big Lottery in Birmingham over HR professional's role in blacklisting construction workers

Tuesday 14th May 2013

Remploy announce possible sale of three factories and closure of Huddersfield with no plans yet for the other 15

Tuesday 14th May 2013

Slippage to autumn 2015 for full scale of roll out of smart meters is bad for jobs and customers

Monday 13th May 2013

GMB official strike ballot at Cityclean department in Brighton in dispute over pay cuts

Monday 13th May 2013

New government regulations following Southern Cross Collapse must ensure care companies cash as AA seeks to raise £3.1 billion in long term debts

Thursday 9th May 2013

Heads should roll in October 2013 review of NMP Sellafield contract to get better quality work and stop waste of public money

Friday 3rd May 2013

GMB welcomes bids for the Norwich remploy factory that will keep disabled workers at work

Wednesday 1st May 2013

GMB warn parents and teachers of asbestos in heaters in schools

Monday 29th April 2013

GMB calls for government to deal with tax dodging and welcomes steps to turn tide on tax evasion and avoidance across the EU

Friday 26th April 2013

GMB to consult members in local government in England, Wales and Northern Ireland over new pay offer for 2013

Wednesday 24th April 2013

GMB says delays at Hinkley Point C nuclear station is disappointing news for employment and carbon free power

Wednesday 24th April 2013

GMB disabled member wrongly assessed for 'bedroom tax' by Birmingham City Council due to error over number of bedrooms asks if rent was overpaid for seven years

Monday 22nd April 2013

Lobby of Parliament on April 23 to keep MOD base at Aschurch open

Thursday 18th April 2013

GMB Heathrow drivers to take industrial action in pay dispute as real value of earnings fall by 12% over the last seven years

Wednesday 17th April 2013

Chancellor should heed IMF advice to change course to grow the economy to end needless waste of human talent

Wednesday 17th April 2013

GMB welcomes interim parliamentary report on blacklisting and call on employers to apologise and compensate workers damaged

Tuesday 16th April 2013

GMB welcomes 12 per hour increase in national minimum wage from October 1 2013 as 'vital pay rise'

Monday 15th April 2013

GMB welcome survey results of health care assistants after the Francis report

Thursday 11th April 2013

GMB demonstration at Skanska AGM in Stockholm on Thursday April 11th over construction workers blacklisting in UK

Tuesday 9th April 2013

Community nurses are stressed, overworked and demoralised in NHS Ayrshire and Arran

Monday 8th April 2013

GMB members at VIP Polymers in Huntingdon being consulted on possible strike action over 10 per cent cut in pay and conditions

Monday 8th April 2013

Workers at Crane Building Services in St Helens to take strike action on Sunday April 7, 2013

Friday 5th April 2013

GMB call on new Scottish police chiefs to intervene in Scottish police HQ Sodexo pay dispute

Thursday 4th April 2013

GMB march and rally in Brighton on April 6th over £30m cuts at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

Thursday 4th April 2013

GMB wins battle for trade union recognition at Ministry Of Justice legal aid agency

Wednesday 3rd April 2013

Government not preparing households for coming price hikes for energy

Wednesday 27th March 2013

Governments' new nuclear strategy is fine on paper but there is no organisation in UK to deliver it

Tuesday 26th March 2013

GMB on Francis NHS report

Tuesday 26th March 2013

GMB seek meeting on beer tie

Monday 25th March 2013

GMB to tell blacklist support group AGM that managers and HR professionals must account for role in blacklisting construction workers

Friday 22nd March 2013

GMB call on public to support six of the remaining Leeds Council run care homes and four day centres during consultation period on closing them

Friday 22nd March 2013

Budget 2013: Electorate must punish coalition for mission impossible plan to deflate the economy to growth and a balanced budget

Wednesday 20th March 2013

Demonstration in Brighton on April 6, over £30m cuts at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

Wednesday 20th March 2013

Planning consent for Hinkley Point C welcome but delay in fixing price for nuclear power bad for investment and jobs in UK says GMB

Tuesday 19th March 2013

24 hour Sodexo strike at Scottish police college over living wage well supported says GMB

Monday 18th March 2013

1,000 net R & D job losses at Astra Zeneca is disasterous news for UK and North West

Monday 18th March 2013

GMB members from Islington and Haringey speak up and march to defend the Whittington hospital in Archway, North London

Friday 15th March 2013

Reaction to NHS pay review - real terms pay cut

Friday 15th March 2013

Carillion GMB school support staff strike action on March 15, in Sheffield for living wage

Tuesday 12th March 2013

Council jobs down 380,500 since 2010

Monday 11th March 2013

GMB members in living wage protest at passing out ceremony at Scottish Fife police college Friday March 8th

Thursday 7th March 2013

Environment agency proposed two hour response target for Thames locks and weirs will increase risk of flooding and endanger lives

Thursday 7th March 2013

What is pub conciliation chief's position on key principle that a tied pub tenant be no worse off than a free of tie tenant

Wednesday 6th March 2013

20 social care staff in Barnet face cuts in pay and jobs and new work rosters as outsourced service pays price for bad policy

Tuesday 5th March 2013

GMB calls off Cheshire protests after employers agrees to apply NAECI agreement to nuclear construction site

Tuesday 5th March 2013

Landlords own 40 per cent of ex council houses

Tuesday 5th March 2013

GMB equality conference in Leeds to debate gender pay gap as new report show £52,795 gap for chief executives

Monday 4th March 2013

Call for nationalised nuclear development authority to build new nuclear power stations for low carbon electricity

Monday 4th March 2013

Cross infection contamination risks

Friday 1st March 2013

Changed role for porter's at Morecambe Bay NHS Hospital Trust increases risk of infection

Friday 1st March 2013

Attack by minister on trade union workplace representatives does a difficult job is wrong and insulting

Friday 1st March 2013

Pickles attack wrong and insulting

Friday 1st March 2013

GMB asks micro brewers to contact BIS to express support for "free of tie" option in statutory code for pub industry

Thursday 28th February 2013

Ofgem cut of 20% investment in gas distribution will lead to 3,000 job losses and lives lost in gas explosions

Thursday 28th February 2013

Carillion's defence of blacklisting is 'pathetic' as court orders appeal for Essex engineer blacklisted by Carillion

Wednesday 27th February 2013

GMB against cuts to terms and conditions for staff in the NHS at vote in London to accept the changes

Tuesday 26th February 2013

Electricians top trade on construction industry blacklist

Tuesday 26th February 2013

GMB welcome creation of 1,000 new green jobs at British Gas to help cut energy bills

Monday 25th February 2013

GMB second cheshire protest on Wednesday 27th February over refusal to apply NAECI agreement to nuclear construction site

Monday 25th February 2013

Carillion in court for blacklisting

Friday 22nd February 2013

Consults with members on new offer for 1.5m council workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland

Friday 22nd February 2013

TaxPayers' Alliance mix up salary and redundancy pay to erroneously infer that 28,754 council staff 'earned' over £50,000 a year

Wednesday 20th February 2013

That we have mass unemployment of two and a half million five years into this recession is a waste on a grand scale

Wednesday 20th February 2013

GMB NHS members vote to reject proposals to cut terms and conditions of employment for NHS workers in England

Tuesday 19th February 2013

MSPs should go to Scottish Parliament meeting on Thursday February 21 to press ICO to inform 582 Scottish workers they are on construction blacklist

Tuesday 19th February 2013

Remploy workers bid for automotive business in Birmingham, Coventry and Derby as social enterprise to save jobs

Monday 18th February 2013

GMB Cheshire protest on Wed February 20 over refusal to apply national agreement for engineering construction (NAECI) to nuclear site

Monday 18th February 2013

GMB calls on the Scottish affairs select committee to probe how and why environmental activists were placed on construction industry blacklist

Monday 18th February 2013

GMB oppose sheffield city council plan mandatory cctv in city's licensed taxis and cabs

Friday 15th February 2013

Welcomes Labour promise to fight next election on living standards and calls on party leaders to end support for public sector pay freeze

Friday 15th February 2013

GMB to picket Scottish police college in Fife today 14th February in pay dispute

Thursday 14th February 2013

Government should obey the law and scrap the costly failed workfare experiment

Wednesday 13th February 2013

Welcomes Barking and Dagenham council introduction of minimum wage of £9 an hour for council staff

Wednesday 13th February 2013

GMB Amazon protest

Tuesday 12th February 2013

On funding for elderly care government is tinkering around the edges with changes that are too little, too late and too vague

Monday 11th February 2013

GMB calls on every hospital, school and meals on wheels service to verify they have not served horsemeat to vulnerable people

Friday 8th February 2013

Damning employment tribunal judgement illustrates racism at Camden council

Friday 8th February 2013

60 blacklisted wokers in East Midlands

Thursday 7th February 2013

507 blacklisted in North West

Thursday 7th February 2013

103 blacklisted in Eastern region

Thursday 7th February 2013

Fife industrial action at Sodexo police HQ

Wednesday 6th February 2013

GMB and Four Seasons health care sign joint recognition agreement covering 30,000 staff in over 500 locations

Tuesday 5th February 2013

Calls for nationalised nuclear development authority to build new nuclear power stations for low carbon electricity

Monday 4th February 2013

'Bonkers' call by right-wing think tank to restart public sector pension negotiations based on new 'costs' that do not exist

Monday 4th February 2013

GMB calls for urgent meeting with government in response to public accounts committee criticism of NDA performance at Sellafield

Monday 4th February 2013

GMB members vote to accept Sodexo offer to settle dispute at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS trust

Friday 1st February 2013

GMB no to South London NHS cuts

Thursday 31st January 2013

Five more councils pledge living wage

Tuesday 29th January 2013

GMB welcome recognition deal for civilian staff at Nottinghamshire police force

Monday 28th January 2013

State pension reforms will cost about £1bn in extra tax and will further accelerate private sector final salary pension scheme closure says GMB

Monday 28th January 2013

GMB on march for Lewisham A&E

Friday 25th January 2013

GMB water workers accuse water industry managers and ofwat of complacency that fails consumers and workers

Thursday 24th January 2013

GMB seeks £7.45 per hour (£8.55 London) living wage for 280,000 council workers supported by Ed Miliband and agreements in 27 councils

Thursday 24th January 2013

GMB warns Cameron that workers will not vote in a referendum for a one way street Europe where they are second class citizens

Wednesday 23rd January 2013

GMB welcome new approach from ICO over 200 members on blacklist as lawyers prepare litigation for compensation

Tuesday 22nd January 2013

GMB seek urgent meeting with Ineos Chlor Vinyls over 130 job losses at Runcorn

Monday 21st January 2013

200 GMB members on construction blacklist list as ICO fail to cooperate with lawyers preparing litigation for compensation

Monday 21st January 2013

EU social laws for a yes vote

Friday 18th January 2013

GMB to consult members over failure to find resolution to high pay rises for senior officers at Caerpilly Council

Friday 18th January 2013

GMB warns Cameron that workers will not vote in a referendum for a one way street europe where they are second class citizens

Thursday 17th January 2013

Tories hostile to EU want to scrap laws to prevent another Clapham junction train disaster says GMB

Wednesday 16th January 2013

GMB warns public over appointment of 'axe man' as new chief executive at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

Tuesday 15th January 2013

GMB TO CONSULT MEMBERS ON REVISED TERMS FROM ABERDEENSHIRE COUNCIL IN BALLOT THAT CLOSES ON 25TH JANUARY

Monday 14th January 2013

GMB fears that pension proposals will scupper public sector pensions deals

Monday 14th January 2013

GMB to consult members over proposal to resolve Sodexo dispute at Sussex hospitals as industrial action ballot process is suspended

Friday 11th January 2013

MP'S support for statutory code on fair rents in tied pubs in parliamentary debate welcomed by GMB

Thursday 10th January 2013

Real value of average earnings for all employees in UK have dropped by 12.8 per cent since 2008 official data shows

Wednesday 9th January 2013

Meeting in london to avert action at sussex hospitals as company apologises to staff

Wednesday 9th January 2013

GMB welcome Vince Cable plan for statutory code for fair tied pub rents and urges `free of tie` option in statutory code

Wednesday 9th January 2013

East of England and East Midlands ambulance services fails to meet target for category A calls in 12 months to October 2012

Tuesday 8th January 2013

GMB call on Sheffield City Council to postpone changes in children's services to November to allow time to assess funding switches

Monday 7th January 2013

GMB demo today at Brighton hospital as Sodexo fail to sort pay problems for four weeks running

Monday 7th January 2013

GMB calls for urgent review as changes to immigration laws cause confusion and harm families

Wednesday 2nd January 2013

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