Posted: 28th April 2022
Further to recent updates GMB is now able to announce that the 2021 1.75% pay award has finally been agreed by Unison as well as GMB meaning that it can now be paid to you.
Having delivered our ballot in January, it has been frustrating waiting for news from the other unions knowing that any…
Posted: 11th February 2022
Further to recent updates, we wanted to keep you informed as to developments in the 2021 pay offer. As you are aware, GMB members rejected the 1.75% offer although on a turn out significantly below that required to give us any confidence that we could win a ballot for industrial action. As a result of…
Posted: 24th August 2021
After a long and difficult year, faced with an unprecedented global crisis, Local Government and Schools employees have kept Schools open and the communities they serve safe and secure while continuing to provide key services. After a decade of pay cuts, pay freezes and below average pay awards, GMB believes now is the time for…
Posted: 9th June 2021
The Milton Keynes branch of GMB Union voted unanimously to accept a motion calling for us to promote and support the Osime Brown campaign
GMB Workplace Organiser Andy Forse proposed the motion at the branch meeting in May. Speaking on the motion Andy gave a comprehensive background to Osime Brown’s case and the subsequent campaign…
Posted: 8th June 2021
We will be different, we will be better, and we will win together, says new GMB General Secretary Gary Smith
GMB Union – Britain’s general union with 600,000 members from across all industrial sectors – has elected Gary Smith as its new General Secretary today [Thursday 3 June].
Mr Smith, who was the union’s Scotland…
Posted: 30th April 2021
GMB is holding an election for General Secretary & Treasurer – the senior full-time officer in GMB, responsible for managing the union and delivering our policies.
This election will have a big impact on GMB’s future and our ability to work for you. Everyone in membership of GMB on 31st March 2021 is entitled to…
Posted: 30th April 2021
This year on Wednesday 28 April a small delegation of the GMB Milton Keynes Branch Committee met to commemorate International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD) at the MK Rose, where the is a column marking the day.
IWMD gives everyone an opportunity to remember those who have been seriously injured and those who have died as…
Posted: 25th February 2021
As expected, the Government has now announced its intention to fully reopen schools on Monday 8th March. GMB proposed, and would have preferred, a phased reopening of schools but this was rejected and so we have prepared advice and guidance for you, to assist in ensuring you are as safe as possible when schools fully…
Posted: 5th January 2021
From New Year’s Day onwards GMB has called on Secretary of State for Education Gavin Williamson to extend home learning for all primary school children with the exception of vulnerable children and key workers’ children.
GMB will never play fast and loose with the security of your jobs and whilst most…
Posted: 29th May 2020
GMB Milton Keynes Branch have just taken stock of hand sanitiser and hygiene hook keyrings. We will also shortly be receiving some face masks (source control masks – not PPE and so should not be used by healthcare workers). The Branch Committee also recently pledged to support the Covid-19 MK Emergency Response Appeal with a…