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Our officers will be at Sandwell Council House, Oldbury on Friday 27th January from 11:30am in room G2.
Come along and find out what GMB can offer you.
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Posted: 20
Further to a members meeting held on Thursday 19th January 2017, GMB Regional Officer Gill Ogilvie and I have today met with counterparts from the joint Trade Unions.
During this meeting GMB have made clear that after taking legal advice and following the Regional Officers email, a vote was held by the members on…
Posted: 19
GMB Sandwell Branch Secretary Darren James and Regional Officer Gill Ogilvie has met with members this morning following the indicative ballot which was conducted in November 2016.
The meeting was held to discuss next steps and moving forward.
We are aware that some members were unable to attend. Ranjit Soomal, GMB Childrens Service’s workplace representative, will shortly…
Posted: 21
GMB Sandwell office will close at Midday on Friday 23rd December 2016 and will reopen at 8:00am on Tuesday 3rd January 2017.
However if you need to contact us during the festive period you can do so by using the following methods:
By email at branch@gmbs85sandwell.org.uk
or by completing our online contact form.
We will…
Posted: 21
GMB has launched a new national campaign calling for an end to pay restraint and to break the public sector pay cap.
When prices are rising twice as fast as wages it’s time to call the Government’s 1% cap what it is – a severe cut to people’s quality of living.
Many of our…
Posted: 9
Further to the strong vote by members of the Joint Trade Unions and the report which was discussed at Cabinet on Wednesday 7th December 2016, representatives have met with Regional Officers from GMB, Unison and Unite to discuss next steps.
You can read the update in full here childrens services…
Posted: 8
You may have noticed GMB officers at SERCO’s Shidas Lane depot during the first week of November discussing and issuing surveys on violence at work.
The first 50 surveys have been completed and the results show a staggering 49% of those surveyed stated that they had been verbally abused whilst at…
Posted: 7
With winter firmly taking hold and the dreaded flu doing the rounds, there’s never been a better time to take stock of how a more serious illness could affect your finances. In most instances, a flu bug is nothing that a good dose of Lemsip and daytime TV won’t fix. But if you were still…
Posted: 28
GMB Birmingham & West Midlands regional equality conference took place last weekend (Saturday 26th Nov 2016) and Sarah and Sam were there to represent S85 branch.
There were passionate speeches and our branch motion calling for GMB to campaign to make domestic abuse workplace policies mandatory, was successfully passed to be debated at the national…
Posted: 21
Following a recent indicative ballot conducted by GMB, Unison and Unite to gain the views of our respective memberships against a TUPE transfer into a Trust, the following results have been gathered –
Members in favour of taking action against a TUPE transfer:
GMB 100%
Unison 97%
Unite 87%
…