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Union demands action over school staff’s term-time only pay
Support staff working in schools in Croydon and across the country are losing out on millions of pounds in pay because of unfair, term-time-only contracts, research by the GMB union has found. Teaching assistants, catering staff, caretakers, administration staff and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Schools
Tagged GMB, National Joint Council, School support staff, schools, Stacey Booth
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Farage and Tories in calls for MP Reed to resign as minister
It’s a case of Foxtrot Oscar for CLP chair Harman, as his former boss comes under increasing pressure over his role with Labour Together and his ‘deeply unprofessional and possibly unlawful’ handling of local elections. On the fifth anniversary of … Continue reading
Posted in Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North
Tagged 2026 council elections, Alan B'stard, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Deeply unprofessional, GMB, Good Mornting Britain, Incompetent, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Norfolk County Council, Oscar Harman, Possibly unlawful, Steve Reed OBE, Susanna Reid, Tory
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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
Posted in Education, Merton, Schools
Tagged GMB, GMB Union, Labour, London, London weighting, Merton, Merton Council, Ross Garrod
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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
Posted in Bromley Council, Outside Croydon, Parking
Tagged APCOA, Bromley, Bromley Council, Conservative, GMB, GMB Union, Traffic wardens
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Bromley traffic wardens set to strike for four days in New Year
Council’s outsourced enforcement officials are paid less than the London Living Wage by their German-based employers. ‘Bromley Council cannot keep hiding behind outsourcing arrangements’ says GMB union Traffic wardens in Bromley have agreed to take further strikes in the New … Continue reading
Posted in Bromley Council, Business
Tagged APCOA, Bromley, Bromley Council, GMB, London Living Wage, Traffic wardens
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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
Posted in Bromley Council, Outside Croydon, Parking
Tagged APCOA, Bromley, Bromley Council, GMB, GMB Union, Traffic wardens
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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
Posted in Bromley Council, Outside Croydon, Parking
Tagged APCOA, Bromley, Bromley Council, GMB, GMB Union, Traffic wardens
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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
Strike at five hospitals as ISS workers complain of being bullied
There is a picket line outside Croydon’s Mayday Hospital and four other NHS hospitals across south London this morning, as ISS workers went on strike amid complaints of being “bullied” and “harassed”. The workers, members of the GMB union, are … Continue reading
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
Posted in Bexley, Business, Sutton Council
Tagged Asda, Bexleyheath, GMB, GMB Union, Manjit Dale, Sutton, TDR Capital
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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
Posted in Business
Tagged Croydon, Department for Work and Pensions, DWP, G4S, GMB, GMB Union, London, Security guards strike
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Council workers’ pay offer sets up possible summer of strikes
There’s a possibility of a summer of strikes at local councils across the country – including in Croydon – after national negotiators offered a pay increase of barely half of what trade unions had asked for in the 2024-2025 pay … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, GMB, inflation, LGA, Local Government Association, London Borough of Croydon, Unison, Unite
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Trust to spend thousands on taxis to break ambulance strike
A south London NHS hospital trust is set to spend tens of thousands of pounds on Ubers and other private hire transport as they attempt to break a strike by union members, according to the GMB. Members of the union … Continue reading
Posted in Health, St Helier Hospital
Tagged Ambulance, Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust, GMB, Helen O'Connor, St Helier Hospital
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Owed £1,000 backpay, St Helier ambulance staff vote to strike
Staff who work in patient transfer ambulances for the Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action over their employers’ failure to pay backpay. The GMB union, which represents the workers, has warned that … Continue reading
Cleaners and porters preparing to protest at Croydon hospital
More than 100 workers will stage a demo outside Mayday Hospital tomorrow to protest against the transfer of their employment from one multi-national to another. Members of GMB union will be protesting the transfer of their jobs from G4S to … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon NHS Trust, Health, Mayday Hospital
Tagged Croydon University Hospital, G4S, GMB, Helen O'Connor, ISS, Mayday Hospital, Outsourcing
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Cleaners and porters call off Mayday strike after G4S pay offer
A two-day strike of porters and cleaners working at Croydon’s biggest hospital which was due to begin today has been suspended following an 11th-hour pay offer from the NHS’s outsource contractors, G4S. The GMB union representing many of the ancillary … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon NHS Trust, Health, Mayday Hospital
Tagged Croydon, Croydon University Hospital, G4S, GMB, Helen O'Connor, Mayday Hospital
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Croydon hospital cleaners and porters to stage 48-hour strike
Cleaners and porters employed by outsourcing giant G4S at Croydon’s Mayday Hospital are to stage a 48-hour walkout from midnight on Sunday. The members of the GMB union are demanding the same pay and conditions as staff employed by the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon NHS Trust, Mayday Hospital
Tagged Croydon University Hospital, G4S, GMB, Helen O'Connor, Mayday Hospital
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Staff at rubbish contractor Veolia call off their Sutton strike
The threatened two-week strike action by Sutton’s refuse teams working for rubbish contractor Veolia has been suspended as a “gesture of goodwill”, the workers’ union, the GMB, announced this morning. Veolia had “partially” addressed the concerns of workers, the union … Continue reading
Halloween horrors as bin and parks workers strike in Sutton
Bin workers and parks staff across three south London boroughs are set to strike, the action likely to affect Halloween and Bonfire Night celebrations according to the GMB union. The two-week industrial action by refuse workers in Sutton and Kingston … Continue reading
Hospital’s domestic staff claim ‘racist’ treatment over pay rises
GMB union members working at Croydon’s Mayday Hospital are demanding equal pay for equal work and an end to outsourcing which they see as “an institutionally racist practice”. The union members are being balloted over strike action. Cleaners, caterers and … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon NHS Trust, Health, Mayday Hospital
Tagged Croydon, Croydon University Hospital, G4S, GMB, Helen O'Connor, Mayday Hospital, NHS
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Housing service job cuts ‘could cost lives’ warns GMB union
Officials at one of the largest trades unions at Croydon Council accuse the authority of putting people’s lives at risk with a “restructuring” – meaning job cuts – in their housing and homelessness department. The GMB says that job cuts … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Housing, Katherine Kerswell
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, GMB, Helen O'Connor, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Tory
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Council’s striking homelessness staff take their fight to Gove
Senior officials have been accused of deliberately sending in false data on homelessness, potentially costing Croydon as much as £3m per year. By our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE Council staff working in Croydon’s housing and homelessness department have today … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Dean Shoesmith, Housing, Improvement Board, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Susmita Sen, Tony McArdle
Tagged 15% Council Tax hike, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Department for Levelling Up, DLUHC, GMB, Homelessness, Housing, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Michael Gove, Rachael Baylis, Susmita Sen, Tory
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GMB suspends hospital strike action after 17% pay offer
Strike action this week by cleaners, caterers and other ancillary staff at a south London hospital has been suspended after they were offered a 17per cent pay rise by their outsourcing employers. GMB members employed by ISS at SLaM, the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Health
Tagged GMB, Helen O'Connor, SLaM, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust
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Hospital ancillary staff to continue strikes after ‘partial victory’
The GMB union, which represents cleaners, caterers and ancillary staff at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, says it is about to “escalate” its industrial action after what it describes as a “partial victory” on pay. The dispute will … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Health
Tagged Beckenham, Bethlem Royal Hospital, GMB, Helen O'Connor, SLaM, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust
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