Wishing you & your families a Merry Christmas

Wishing you & your families
a Merry Christmas
Our Offices will be closed 23 Dec to 3 Jan
Wishing you & your families
a Merry Christmas
Our Offices will be closed 23 Dec to 3 Jan
Although the "Dying to Work" campaign was being promoted by the TUC, which was talked about at Congress, it was only when Richard Oliver of the GMB gave a presentation at the GMB Northwest Justice conference on the 8th October this year, I fully appreciated what the campaign was all about. Having discussed it with a number of my GMB colleagues within the council, we made the decision to approach Mayor Anderson and Deputy Mayor Ann O'Byrne, to see whether Liverpool City Council would be wi
At the recent 2016 GMB Women's Conference, the GMB Women's Radical Network put on a play Changing the Water - Kitty Wilkinson, written by their very own Lorraine Winson and it was a huge success. Regional secretary Paul McCarthy, who the group blamed as responsible for insisting they put together a play for the event, expressed to conference how impressed he was with the groups efforts and how well they had done with very little resource or time.
Keep Our NHS Public is calling on everyone in Liverpool and Merseyside area concerned with the fate of the NHS to lobby the Health & Wellbeing Board on 1 Dec. The leader of the Cheshire & Merseyside Sustainability and Transformation Plan Louise Shepherd is due to address Councillors and health managers, seeking their support for what is in fact a £900m regional cuts and privatisation programme.
The GMB Induction courses for new representatives are held at various offices in the region, provided by the GMB own education officers Alfie Jones and Ken Lowe. There are places available, so if you are interested please contact Julie in Education on 0151 727 0077 or email her at [email protected]
WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) is a campaign group that fights the injustice done to women born in the 1950s (on or after 6 April 1951) regarding the changes to their state pension age.
Your GMB membership offers you more security at work; with trade union representation on hand should you need support. Also in work places with GMB recognition, we are able to help members with collective negotiations.
Peter Tatchell, from the Peter Tatchell Foundation, is a human rights campaigner. Originally known for his work with the LGBT social movement; but in recent years he has become the voice of many campaigns linked to human rights, democracy and global justice. Peter has recently won the James Joyce Award 2016 and was granted an honorary fellowship by University College Dublin.