7 April 2021

GMB general secretary election: A fighting, socialist leadership needed

The GMB general trade union has begun the election process for a new general secretary. It is a year since the toxic environment around previous general secretary Tim Roach was exposed, and it is no accident

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7 April 2021

New British Gas deadline and strike dates

British Gas engineers will continue their strike on 14 April, the new deadline set for signing new contracts being forced on workers using 'fire and rehire'.

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10 March 2021

Strikers reject deal and carry on fighting

"We've told O'Shea to stick it!" - was the message to the British Gas CEO from the British Gas engineers' picket line in Leicester

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3 March 2021

British Gas strike

Around 7,000 British Gas engineers, members of the GMB trade union, are continuing their strike action because the company bosses have refused to withdraw their 'fire and rehire' contract which would leave workers on worse pay and conditions

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24 February 2021

Drivers win case - they are workers

Uber drivers have won their rights case.

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24 February 2021

GMB members continue fight against 'fire and rehire' in British Gas

British Gas workers were back out on strike from 19 February after their strike was suspended over the previous weekend for talks.

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17 February 2021

Online workers' rally: Taking fight to the bosses

The National Shop Stewards Network held its 5th meeting during the pandemic

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27 January 2021

British Gas engineers continue strike against fire-and-rehire plans

"You need to support this because you could be next"

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20 January 2021

British Gas strike continues

British Gas engineers in the GMB union have announced seven new strike dates, for 24 hours each day, on 20, 22, 25, 29, 30, 31 January and 1 February

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Protesting in Cardiff following the death of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, photo by Cardiff SP

13 January 2021

British Gas workers strike against 'fire and rehire' plans

The gas engineers received tremendous support at a Leicester picket

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6 January 2021

British Gas workers on strike against fire and re-hire pay cut

British Gas workers begin five days of strike action on Thursday 7 January, with potentially more to follow

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9 September 2020

Fight Amazon's anti-union spies

Amazon is spying on its 'flex' drivers in dozens of Facebook groups in the US, the UK, and Spain, according to the Vice Media Group. Flex drivers are the workers who deliver the items to your door.

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3 June 2020

Coordinated union struggle needed to save jobs and nationalise JCB

Digger company JCB has recently announced redundancies and proposed other changes to our terms and conditions that it insists are necessary due to the impact of Covid-19.

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18 March 2020

Workers at Lewisham coronavirus hospital walk out after not being paid

"Infected patients are now being admitted into the hospital, but the cleaners have downed tools because they haven't been paid"

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20 December 2019

Council concedes to striking winter gritters' demands

Plaid Cymru-led Carmarthenshire County has backed down in the face of determined industrial action

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10 December 2019

Pay Deal: ACAS sides with management

A missed opportunity to fight

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20 November 2019

Frimley NHS Trust: Strikers remain determined to defeat privatisation

Hospital support staff struck on 18 and 19 November against transfer to a 'wholly owned subsidiary'

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23 October 2019

Asda contracts: Vital that GMB mobilises for industrial action

About 400 hundred Asda workers and members of the GMB union marched defiantly through Leeds on 16 October, angry at the company's plans to sack staff members that hadn't signed up to the company's 'Contract 6'- with its unacceptable working conditions - by a 2 November deadline.

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9 October 2019

Asda workers protest callous bosses

Workers organised with the GMB union protested outside more than 75 Asda stores across the UK on Thursday 3 October. Bosses have said they will fire anyone who doesn't sign up to 'Contract 6' by 2 November.

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2 October 2019

Crown Paints dispute - union senior steward speaks out

Workers, members of the GMB union, at Crown Paints in Hull have in recent weeks taken four days of strike action in pursuit of a just pay claim. Shane Allinson, GMB senior steward, has made a statement about the dispute

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