Posted: 12th September 2017
Bright Futures Day Care Centre provides a vital service to the Hateley Heath community and working parents, but is threatened with closure with 12 staff facing redundancy.
Management have advised that this is due to a deficit of £160k but acknowledge this is due to previous mismanagement.
GMB & Unison representatives in Sandwell, along…
Posted: 8th September 2017
We are pleased to confirm that a special rate offer has been agreed with Sandwell Leisure Trust for GMB members.
To take advantage of this offer, all you need is to show evidence of GMB Membership at the Centre reception either upon joining and collecting your membership card, or if already a member on…
Posted: 18th August 2017
GMB Sandwell August 2017 Newsletter is now available online
Posted: 10th August 2017
You have a right to be treated the same as everyone else in your workplace.
But if you are not treated the same what can you do about it? GMB Workplace Organisers are trained to negotiate equal treatment at work and to organise their workplace so that collective action can keep GMB members safe from…
Posted: 10th August 2017
People under 25 don’t get a discount on rent, shopping or bus fares – so why should they be paid less?
GMB’s young members are spreading the word about equal pay for under-25s in honour of International Youth Day. The group are meeting at 4pm on Birmingham’s famous Broad Street, where they will target…
Posted: 10th August 2017
Yesterday (9th Aug 2017) we said goodbye to our dear friend, GMB President Mary Turner. Everyone at GMB and Mary’s family have been overwhelmed by tributes to her.
You can read the many messages or post your own tribute in the online condolence book.
Posted: 4th August 2017
Over the past month a number of important cases have been heard at employment courts and the outcome has been favourable for workers throughout the UK.
Wednesday 12th July 2017
Equalisation of Pension Rights
A Supreme Court ruling found the exemption written in to the Equality Act 2010…
Posted: 20th July 2017
It is with an extremely heavy heart that we advise that our beloved National President Mary Turner passed away yesterday after a short illness.
Mary has been a trade union activist for over 60 years, and was a much loved and hugely respected member of the GMB Union.
Born in Tipperary, Mary moved to the North…
Posted: 18th July 2017
Pressure is building on the Government to reverse the Public Sector pay cap.
Over 760,000 jobs have been lost in the Public Sector since June 2010, but the same amount of work remains on top of shrinking pay packets. As a result local services, and those reliant on them are suffering.
The cap is not…
Posted: 18th July 2017
Darren James, Branch Secretary joined TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady and union members from sister Trade Unions in Westminster yesterday (17th July 2017) to deliver the TUC’s petition calling for the Public Sector pay cap to be lifted to the Treasury.
Speaking in London, Darren said “We welcome the TUC’s support for the campaign…