Home Tags Gmb

Tag: gmb

Johnson To Close Rochdale< Salford< Trafford & Bury Maternity Units

0
Health unions yesterday expressed concern after health secretary Alan Johnson endorsed plans to close maternity units at four Greater Manchester hospitals in Rochdale, Salford,...

CWU CALLS NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION! – All out on Tuesday August 21

0
The Communica-tion Workers Union (CWU) has announ-ced a national demonstration in London in support of postal workers on Tuesday, 21 August 2007. A CWU spokeswoman...

Tuc Appeals To The Government For Jobs, Wages And Basic Rights

0
The TUC preliminary agenda covers the mounting concerns of workers over jobs, wages and conditions, public services and basic rights. The agenda opens...

Shares Crash As Debt Crisis Explodes

0
IN London yesterday, the FTSE 100 rebounded momentarily, but then fell back into the red, down by 48.5 points by 1pm after a...

PATIENT CARE AT RISK – from private treatment centres

0
Senior doctors yesterday renewed a warning that private treatment centres are putting patient care at risk and destabilising the NHS. The British Medical Association (BMA)...

Form Public Sector Alliance to defeat the Brown government

0
THE Brown government is showing clearly and conclusively that it stands with the bosses, the bankers, and the employers against the workers and their...

STOP REMPLOY CLOSURE PROGRAMME – says All Party Group of MPs

0
THE trade union campaign to reverse the closure of 43 Remploy factories received a significant boost when the All Party Group of MPs published...

‘Last Ditch Talks’ Over NHS Pay

0
Health unions yesterday warned the government that if it fails to improve on its pay-cutting offer they will proceed with strike ballots. UNISON said: ‘New...

A fighting Public Sector Alliance to defend wages and jobs

0
THE Communication Workers Union yesterday announced its latest plans for strike action after the first national strike for a decade last week, which was...

Under Brown They Don’t Pay Any Any Taxes

0
GORDON Brown in his budget got rid of the lowest rate of tax, 10p in the pound, thereby setting out to further punish the...

Build councils of action to support the postal workers

0
‘THIS has been the best-supported strike I’ve ever seen,’ CWU General Secretary, Billy Hayes told striking postal workers in Peckham yesterday. This was after the...

AA sold to Saga, Permira and CVC bosses pocket £300m

0
TRUE to form the private equity capitalist groups Permira and CVC having acquired the prestigious AA motoring group with the help of huge borrowings...

DON’T GAG CONFERENCE! – UNISON delegates demand debate on coordinated strike...

0
UNISON’s national delegate conference yesterday opened with a row over the refusal of the Standing Orders Committee to allow a debate on emergency motions...

Law Lords Deny Elderly Rights

0
Yesterday’s House of Lords judgement fails vulnerable older people, says Help the Aged. The charity was responding to the decision by the House of Lords in YL v Birmingham...

Private equity bosses ‘planned sackings’ – Dromey

0
‘WE’RE sticking up for members who are the victims at the sharp end of what is a growing scandal,’ TGWU deputy-leader Jack Dromey said...

PRIVATE EQUITY THREATENS PENSION FUNDS – GMB ive evidence to MPs

0
THE GMB general workers union yesterday called on parliament to halt ‘tax privileges’ to venture capitalists and establish the amount of unfunded pension...

Brown champions more police powers and public sector pay cuts

0
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown told police chiefs yesterday that he will do ‘everything to give you the resources’ and ‘we will not shirk from giving...

Call a national postal strike and bring out all the...

0
ROYAL Mail chairman Allan Leighton reiterated yesterday that the organisation cannot afford to improve its 2.5 per cent pay offer, despite staff voting 77...

Call Strike Action Across Public Sector Against Brown’s Wage Cutting Policy

0
ON Tuesday the GMB annual conference decided that a sub-inflation cap on pay negotiations is completely unacceptable to GMB public service members. The...

Unison Leaders Vote For Another Blairite Government

0
FOR the whole period that Labour Left MP John McDonnell was seeking to get the backing of the 40 plus MPs that would have...

UNIONS MAKE TERMINAL 5 DEAL – but refuse to reveal...

0
Trade union officials were yesterday giving out mixed messages about a new staffing levels agreement with British Airways for the move to Terminal 5...

£1.90 AN HOUR ON CELTIC FERRIES – major unions lead protest

0
LEADERS and officials of Britain and Ireland’s transport unions will today expose the poverty-pay shame of a ferry company operating in UK and Irish...

Barnsley Nurses Strike!

0
Forty-five striking Operating Department Practitioners and theatre nurses were joined by other staff at lunchtime yesterday outside Barnsley Hospital. The Barnsley nurses, members of the...

KEEP REMPLOY OPEN! – unions slam charities

0
Trade unions are furious that six leading charities have backed plans to close dozens of factories which provide jobs for disabled people, on the...

Behind The Scenes Plan To Close Remploy Factories

0
THE GMB trade union say it has found out that senior members of Remploy management are visiting MPs to brief them about the closures...

Unions & party members kept out of Labour leadership election

0
TWO of the largest trade unions affiliated to the Labour Party, unions that pay millions into its funds, said they were ‘looking to the...

WORKERS DEMAND NEW LEADERSHIP IN UNIONS – ‘We are fighting our...

0
UP to 5,000 people marched through central London yesterday on the TUC May Day demonstration. The PCS trade union was on 24-hour strike against mass...

Barnsley Nurses To Strike

0
GMB trade union members at Barnsley Hospital have voted to take strike action in a dispute following the introduction of Agenda for Change. The members...

British economy skating on thin ice

0
BA is currently approaching a number of private equity companies about forming a consortium to bid for Iberia airlines. Iberia said last month...

‘WE WON’T ALLOW REMPLOY CLOSURE PLAN’ – Remploy stewards tell News...

0
THE whole of the Remploy network of factories for disabled workers is under threat, because the government plans to limit the company’s funding to...

Time to take action against the venture capitalists

0
A BIDDING war between warring groups of venture capitalist locusts has broken out over who is to asset strip Boots. Yesterday morning, the...

SCOTTISH TUC BOMBSHELL – General Council supports Labour in election by...

0
Labour has only very narrowly retained the formal endorsement of Scotland’s trades unions for May’s Holyrood and council elections. The General Council of the STUC...

DELAY BOOTS TAKEOVER IN WAKE OF IMF CRASH WARNING – GMB...

0
THE GMB has called on the government to delay the private equity take-over of Boots in the wake of the IMF warning of the...

PCS to strike on May 1st – calls on TUC and...

0
Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) leaders have named May 1st as a second national strike day by 200,000 civil servants. The PCS is also...

Union leaders go easy on Brown’s bosses’ budget

0
CHANCELLOR Brown’s budget yesterday outlined savage attacks on the working class, particularly low paid workers. His decision to abolish the 10 pence tax rate...

Inflation up as Blair-Brown move to cut wages!

0
INFLATION in the UK is accelerating out of control. According to the latest Labour government figures which grossly underestimate the process the Consumer...

COUNCIL WORKERS 2% PAY INSULT – as inflation rises to 4.6%

0
COUNCIL worker unions angrily rejected a 2 per cent wage cut pay offer yesterday, as inflation hit 4.6 per cent, the highest in 16...

GMB welcomes debate on private equity

0
THE GMB welcomes the House of Commons debate on private equity as the ‘barbarians’ target Boots. Michael Meacher MP has secured a...

Gambling With The Norfolk And Norwich NHS Trust

0
private equity firm 3i on Thursday listed its 3i Infrastructure fund on the London stock market only to see it sink to the bottom...

3i UNION BUSTERS – will be beaten says GMB

0
‘DESPITE five days of strike action by 55 members of the GMB, NCP, owned by private equity group 3i, is refusing to recognise the...

REPORT MINIMUM WAGE CHEATS – GMB warns Virgin Media contractor Cobra

0
THE GMB trade union yesterday called on workers being cheated of the national minimum wage to contact their local GMB office to enforce their...

WELFARE ‘SLAP IN THE FACE’ – says CPS civil servants union

0
Welfare ‘reform’ plans aimed at privatising ‘help’ for the long term unemployed drew an angry response from civil servants’ union PCS yesterday. Union leader Mark Serwotka...

SAVE FREE ENGLISH COURSES – brutal move to drive students out...

0
IMPOSSIBLE fees estimated at £1,500 a year will be imposed in September, if the government is allowed to go ahead with planned cuts in...

Gmb Members Picket ‘Vulture Capitalists’

0
GMB members yesterday went to Germany to demonstrate outside a gathering of the European Venture Capitalists Association (EVCA), at the same time as Prime...

Expropriate The Venture Capitalists

0
WE are living in the period of the death agony of the capitalist system. It is only natural then, that out of the shadows should...