Posted: 7
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: 17
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: 25
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: 16
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: 20
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: 17
This site now advertises the the GMB On-line training short course syllabus, and the ACAS online training courses.
Posted: 15
If considering a motion for our Branch to send to GMB Congress, you might like to check out current policy which is documented here, on the GMB Web Site.
Posted: 3
Happy New Year to all our members.
We are preparing a Branch activists plan for 2019 will focus on organising new work places and training both workplace organisers and accompanying representatives. Last year’s plan involved increasing the number of trained people on the branch committee that could act as accompanying reps. We now have four…
Posted: 3
Sadly, last week, the London Region Political Officer of the GMB, Gary Doolan passed away.
Our thoughts are with his family. RIP
Posted: 20
At our January meeting, as a result of the session in November, we debated and passed the following motion.
FREE OUR UNIONS
We need abolition of the anti-trade union laws, which hamstring workers organising and taking action, and their replacement with strong legal workers’ rights.
We applaud the 2017 Labour Party conference’s unanimous call…