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London Region Women’s Conference

Posted: 8th August 2023

This year’s London Region Women’s Conference is taking place on Saturday, 30 September, in central London (full details below).

The aim of the Conference is to encourage women members to get active in GMB, to address our continuing under-representation, as well as to increase activism and build our union.

The theme is the impact of…

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A new sense of purpose

Posted: 19th June 2023

Congress 23 changed the rules of the Union, most importantly updating its aims and objectives. Gary Smith, the General Secretary has written to Regional Secretaries saying,

Words have power. They inspire, guide, and will us to win.

The words contained in our Rulebook are not dry or idle. They are fundamental to our…

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Bullying, it has to stop

Posted: 25th April 2023

Over the weekend, the Deputy Prime Minster resigned as a result of an enquiry that found he had a case to answer on bullying charges.

This is one of the most publicly visible stories showing the endemic occurrence of bullying within the workplace and the consensus of tolerance of such behaviour. Raab’s failure to apologise…

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Defending our rights at work

Posted: 5th April 2023

I, Steve and Ernest have met many of you and as a branch leadership, we do our best to guide and defend you through disputes you have, or for those we haven’t met,  may have with your employer.

Very few of you work at workplaces with collective bargaining agreements and so we guide you through…

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Preparing for Congress 2023

Posted: 24th January 2023

Our branch voted last week on the motions it plans to send to Congress, we are sending another motion on Brexit and trade with Europe, calling for rejoining the single market but also, immigration and racism, campaigning for a living wage for youth and welcoming Labour’s new deal for working people.

These motions will add…

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Congress 2022

Posted: 6th July 2022

GMB’s 2022 Congress has been over for nearly a month; we were represented by our branch president, Dave Levy, who’s written this brief report, and longer ones on his blog and on medium.

“I have now uploaded most of my notes and comments from #GMB22. They can be found on my blog using the…

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No to Offshoring

Posted: 14th April 2022

Boris Johnson and Priti Patel have finally pressed the button on their plans to ‘offshore’ asylum processing, Labour’s Yvette Cooper, labels this shameful, unworkable, unethical & extortionate. The Independent reports on previous countries attempts to ‘offshore’ refugee reception their failure, cost and disgraceful conditions applied to people who have done nothing wrong.…

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