Tag Archives: GMB Union

GMB to hold strike ballot over weighting pay in Merton schools

Support staff working at schools in Merton are to be balloted for strike action over a long-standing pay discrepancy. Teaching Assistants and school support staff in Merton receive London Weighting at the Outer London rate. Yet their teacher colleagues in … Continue reading

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New pay deal is just the ticket for Bromley traffic wardens

Officials at the GMB trades union have called a pay deal for Bromley’s traffic wardens “significant”, as the workers for a private contractor have been placed on London Living Wage contracts and called an end to industrial action that has … Continue reading

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Bromley traffic wardens in 48-hour strike over ‘poverty pay’

Bromley’s traffic wardens are out on strike today and tomorrow, and will be marching on Bromley’s civic centre tomorrow in protest at a derisory offer from their employers to improve what they call their “poverty pay”. The traffic wardens are … Continue reading

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Bromley’s traffic wardens on work-to-rule before Christmas

Bromley’s traffic wardens are taking industrial action from Monday week, November 10, after rejecting what they call a “poverty pay” offer of a 50p per hour increase which would still leave them earning below the London Living Wage. Bromley Council’s … Continue reading

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Thames Water is ‘drowning in debt’ as pollution and bills soar

Steve Reed OBE, the MP for Streatham (and Croydon North if he can be bothered), and the environment secretary in Keir Starmer’s government, is facing renewed calls to renationalise privatised water companies, after the biggest, Thames Water, today reported an … Continue reading

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Parking wardens stop issuing tickets in four London boroughs

More than 200 parking wardens and environmental officers across Wandsworth, Richmond, Lambeth and Kingston have stopped issuing tickets as a form of industrial action. This is the continuation of a dispute which has seen members of the GMB union take … Continue reading

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Sutton shop workers owed £1m in back-pay to stage protest

Dozens of supermarket workers will be outside an Asda store in Sutton, accompanied by a life-sized cut-out of billionaire boss Manjit Dale, to demonstrate their anger over the asset stripping of the supermarket. The shop workers in Sutton reckon Asda … Continue reading

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Job Centres are hit by week-long strike by G4S security guards

Hundreds of Job Centre security guards from Croydon and across London began a week-long walkout this morning as part of an ongoing pay dispute. While working at the government offices run by the Department for Work and Pensions, the security … Continue reading

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