I welcome Iain McNicol’s election as the Labour Party’s next General Secretary. I would not describe him as a buddy, or close personal friend. Iain is a comrade. And I would like to share two experiences that highlight why. I first met him in my capacity as chair of Save the Labour Party in 20045 while […]
Posts Tagged ‘GMB’
Defend the teachers
Jun 16th, 2011 by Darrell Goodliffe.It is a peculiar quirk of capitalist thinking that the individual ambition of workers is lauded and encouraged but the ambition of a group of workers to protect their position is one of the deadliest sins you can commit. Indeed, one of the major ironies of the proposals put forward by Hutton for public sector pension […]
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Southern Cross links exposed with Qatar, RBS & Goldman Sachs
Jun 16th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.The story behind Southern Cross that is slowly being exposed gets worse by the hour. We now know from research by the GMB, which represents nearly 11,000 staff employed by Southern Cross, that up to half of the properties at the 753 care homes were acquired by a company called NHP, of which the ultimate […]
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GMB take protest to BP annual general meeting
Apr 12th, 2011 by Andy Newman.The GMB is organising for 430 workers locked out from a BP constrction site to come to London to draw attention to the irresponsible behaviour of BP and link it to the oil slicks in the Gulf of Mexico. GMB members locked out of the BP bio fuel ethanol site at Saltend in Hull plan to […]
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Labour No to AV is born…
Mar 2nd, 2011 by Darrell Goodliffe.It looks like those within the Labour Party who want a No to AV vote on May 5th finally have an organisation to take-on Labour Yes. Quietly, Labour No to AV is being born. It has its own website which you can see here and, in addition, literature has been produced by three trade unions opposed […]
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Support an EU-wide financial transaction tax
Feb 25th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.The GMB is urging Conservative, Lib Dem, Scottish Nationalist and Plaid Cymru MEPs to support the introduction of an EU financial transaction tax (FTT) when the issue comes before European Parliament next month. Labour and Green MEPs are already strongly backing the proposal which will be voted on in the next Strasbourg plenary session on […]
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We need a labour movement No to AV Campaign…
Feb 13th, 2011 by Darrell Goodliffe.The current clutch of opinion polls do not make pleasant reading for the No to AV camp. They are showing a clear momentum shift in the direction of a Yes vote with the ComRes poll showing Yes taking a 10% being the latest example of this. Of course, a high percentage of ‘dont know’s’ still exist (ComRes […]
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Union call to stop wrecking fabric of daily life
Dec 30th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.“Working people in the UK can help stop the Conservative-led coalition from taking a wrecking ball to the fabric of daily life.” That is the New Year’s message to some 3.5 million workers across both the public and private sectors from their unions, the GMB, Unison and Unite, who say that the government’s dangerous prescription […]
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The other union election
Nov 23rd, 2010 by Jon Lansman.It passed without attention — the election for the general secretary of Britain’s third largest union. It isn’t often that General Secretaries are unopposed when they come up for re-election in our largest unions. Dave Prentice wasn’t at Unison earlier this year; nor was Derek Simpson at Unite, even though his retirement was imminent. But […]
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The ‘No to AV’ campaign needs to engage with Labour voters and fast….
Oct 27th, 2010 by Darrell Goodliffe.In May, alongside the local and (in Scotland and Wales at least) national elections, there is the small matter of a referendum to change our voting system to consider. We know that the first electoral test for the Coalition will motivate Labour voters to turn-out and Labour activists to ensure a high turnout. Turnout will […]
