There is now a real opportunity to finally address staff shortages due to poor pay and conditions to attract workers to what are very satisfying and essential jobs says GMB London...
Volumes to be delivered has shot up requiring additional capacity to deal with it and new market rates have been established which must be paid to all couriers says GMB London...
GMB London, the union for refuse staff, welcome the decision by outsourced contractor Amey to pay full pay to workers off sick with Coronavirus, or those absent from work due to self isolating, in the current health emergency....
GMB London call on Bakkavor Management to radically reorganise production methods and schedules to make London food plants compliant with social distancing rules for safe operation...
Unless sick pay is improved Bakkavör will force staff to work putting fellow workers and public at risk or going without enough money says GMB London...
This was the shocking response the Private Contractor, who provides Waste Management services for the London Borough of Ealing, gave GMB London when asked to pay their workers full pay if they had to self Isolate or contracted COVID-19....
GMB London, the union for general workers across the economy, welcomed the new rates for the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage from April 2020 and reiterated calls for unions to have a role in enforcement where members are employed by rogue employers....
GMB, the union in the logistics sector, is calling on XPO Logistics to radically revise working arrangements in warehouses both in and around Milton Keynes, to comply with social distancing requirements to protect the health of members working in these warehouses as well as the general public.If it proves not to be possible at any workplaces then the company should operations there during the public health emergency....
GMB London call on local government employers to spell out how refuse services staff can safely provide an essential service while meeting social distancing requirements...
GMB London call on UK Government to stop aviation employers and insurance sector from using "acts of god" clauses to evade responsibility to maintain jobs and incomes of their workforces facing wholesale immediate job losses...
It is not acceptable for members being asked to put themselves at risk without being guaranteed their full pay should they fall ill doing their jobs says GMB London...
Coronavirus poses an exceptional threat to all of us and we would like to take the opportunity to reassure every GMB London Region member that we will not be taking a back seat during this unprecedented time...
History has shown that the industry will not support contracted workers so government must insist that they guarantee pay for at least a minimum of contractual hour along with average hours for zero hours staff, says GMB London....
