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    Strike Ballot Underway For ISS Workers At SLAM NHS Trust – Again
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    Strike Ballot Underway For ISS Workers At SLAM NHS Trust – Again

    4 October 2019

    “These GMB Members working for ISS at SLAM deserve to be treated fairly and not as second class citizens in the NHS,” says GMB Southern

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    Epsom And St Helier NHS Staff To Remain On Poverty Pay As The Trust Is Due To Receive £500 Million In Government Funding
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    Epsom And St Helier NHS Staff To Remain On Poverty Pay As The Trust Is Due To Receive £500 Million In Government Funding

    1 October 2019

    "Our members carry out highly skilled and invaluable work supporting the most vulnerable elderly patients having renal dialysis in the trust. They are entitled to be rewarded properly…

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    GMB members at Biffa in Winchester consulted over strike action
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    GMB members at Biffa in Winchester consulted over strike action

    27 September 2019

    “Biffa are now refusing to talk to the GMB locally and therefore we have no option other than to take direct action to protect our members", says GMB Southern

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    Housing benefits to private landlords in South East cost government over £891 million a year
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    Housing benefits to private landlords in South East cost government over £891 million a year

    26 September 2019

    “A change of policy to shift away from housing benefits to direct provision of council housing is long overdue. It will save money in the long run too”, says GMB Southern

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    GMB warn NHS not to give contracts to Thames Ambulance Services Ltd
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    GMB warn NHS not to give contracts to Thames Ambulance Services Ltd

    20 September 2019

    “Yet again it is the workers who are paying the price for this long running disastrous privatisation”, says GMB Southern

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    Amey workers to ballot on strike action
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    Amey workers to ballot on strike action

    20 September 2019

    “The poor performance of Amey is nothing more than shambolic management”, says GMB Southern

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    GMB slams Wandsworth Council’s decision to cut transport services for vulnerable children
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    GMB slams Wandsworth Council’s decision to cut transport services for vulnerable children

    11 September 2019

    “This decision is bad for the pupils, bad for the parents, bad for the staff and bad for the environment”, says GMB Southern

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    Thames Ambulance Service redundancy process to be challenged
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    Thames Ambulance Service redundancy process to be challenged

    11 September 2019

    “Making staff go through the courts to get justice will bring this already tainted PTS contract even further into disrepute, so the GMB expects all parties to do the right thing…

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    GMB Slam As Unsafe Decision By Penhill Nursery To Open With One Member Of Staff On Site
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    GMB Slam As Unsafe Decision By Penhill Nursery To Open With One Member Of Staff On Site

    10 September 2019

    This is exactly the type of problem GMB anticipated when we warned the school and Swindon Council about earlier this year, says GMB Southern

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    East Sussex Council bully School Governors over Academisation
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    East Sussex Council bully School Governors over Academisation

    6 September 2019

    “This latest outrageous action clearly shows that the council are determined to force this academisation through by any underhanded means necessary”, says GMB Southern

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