Posted: 22nd April 2020
I have been meaning to write an “employee self defence” manual for a while now, and something came across my desk today to remind me of this ambition. Here’s it is off the top of my head.
Posted: 18th March 2020
These are extraordinary times and it’s quite possible that you will need the Union’s support in the next couple of weeks. The GMB National website has a page specifically on the coronavirus which is being updated daily.
Warren Kenny, our Regional Secretary has just sent out an all members letter, detailing the Union’s…
Posted: 13th March 2020
The branch meeting planned for the 16th March has been cancelled for the obvious reasons. had planned for the General Secretary to address the meeting. Tim has agreed to come back later in the year.
Posted: 25th January 2020
You will have been invited to the Branch meetings for 2020; these have now been posted on this site.
We are remaining at Friends House, and while we have usually sought to meet on the 3rd Monday every other month, the venue can no longer meet this requirement. We are meeting on the 2nd or…
Posted: 7th November 2019
There’s a General Election on Dec 12th. Our November branch meeting was planned to have taken place in November. The Branch Officers took the position that the meeting in November was unlikely to be quorate and thus have postponed the meeting until the 16th December. This site’s event details have been updated. We will write…
Posted: 17th October 2019
There is going to be a hustings for the election of the General Secretary and Treasurer of the Union. This is advertised as an event on this site where the full details are advertised as they are on this flyer;
The candidates are Tim Roach and Kathleen Walker Shaw.
This is an excellent opportunity…
Posted: 25th July 2019
There is going to be an election for General Secretary. The first stage for those of us not standing is to participate in a Branch nominating meeting. At this meeting we debate and decide to nominate someone as a candidate for the position of General Secretary. The rule book says that
The general secretary and…
Posted: 16th July 2019
Alongside your GMB London Region core training, we would like to draw your attention to e-learning, as a way of enhancing and updating your skills and knowledge, strengthening your ability to represent GMB members in your workplace and further your efforts in building GMB Organisation there.
You can access these courses via the Regional website…
Posted: 20th June 2019
A view from London Central General.
GMB Congress 2019 occurred last week and our delegate, Dave Levy has written a report of his experience there. He has published his report on his blog. The GMB publish the proceedings of Congress on their YouTube channel.
Dave spoke on the CEC special report on Brexit, where…
Posted: 17th June 2019
This site now advertises the the GMB On-line training short course syllabus, and the ACAS online training courses.