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Joined October 2012
GMB Midlands retweeted
STRIKE: Workers at Cinch Connectors in Notts are standing strong on the picket line. These are vital workers, creating electrical components for some of the most advanced defence and aeronautical technology.
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STRIKE: Workers at Cinch Connectors in Notts are standing strong on the picket line. These are vital workers, creating electrical components for some of the most advanced defence and aeronautical technology.
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Challenge it when you see it. Support colleagues who experience it. Unions exist to defend everyone’s dignity at work. Show Racism the Red Card. Join us. ✊🟥 #ShowRacismTheRedCard #WearRedDay @SRTRC_England
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🌊 Save King's Mill Hydro Pool. 🤽‍♂️ "We disagree with the closure because we think it's a specialist service King's Mill is lucky to have." Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust must keep our hydrotherapy pool open 🏊‍♂️
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📢 SAVE OUR HYDRO 🏊‍♂️ Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust decided to close their vital King's Mill hydrotherapy pool without consultation with GMB Union. Listen as we spoke to the patients protesting alongside staff today. The Trust must reconsider.
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Amazon must come clean. Just weeks before new workers rights come into force, reports have shown that @amazonuk is reportedly using AI fuelled surveillance tools to predict where workers will unionise in Canada.
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Known as Atlas, these tools reportedly use hundreds of data sets including, chillingly, comments scraped from external forums like Reddit. We've written to Government to demand urgent answers from Amazon on its use of similar systems here in the UK.
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This October, the theme for Black History Month is Honouring Our Communities. As a union, that's something we take seriously. Our strength has always come from the people who show up for each other, at work and beyond it.
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So this month, every month, we celebrate Black members, reps and activists in the Midlands and recommit to the fight for fair pay, safe workplaces and equality at work for everyone.
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The voices of Britain’s Defence workers must be heard in the months and years ahead - to make reindustrialisation work for working class communities. That’s why they’ve launched our Workers Behind The Lines campaign at Labour Party Conference. Watch and find out more ⬇️
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GMB Midlands retweeted
The Chancellor’s speech was full of hope and optimism for a reindustrialised Britain. From shipyards in Devon, to Merseyside, Rolls-Royce in Derby and the banks of the Clyde. GMB members can’t wait to start on a steady drumbeat of work that will transform their communities.
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🚉 Voices from GMB members on the picket at Nottingham Trams.  The workers stand united: 📢 Fair pay now. 📢
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GMB Midlands retweeted
Tram Drivers. Ticket office staff. Maintenance teams. They've had enough. Strike action confirmed: Saturday 26 September through Goose Fair week. The door's always open: But tram bosses are fast running out of track. Our members deserve respect.
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GMB Midlands retweeted
As part of @GMBMidlands work into investigating the impact on workers with chronic health conditions, our branch's H&S Rep Neil with Region has put together a questionnaire which went live on the 1st of September for Midlands Regional Reps - please complete it if you can – at Irthlingborough, England
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We need spades in the ground - now - to secure jobs in the brick & building materials industry. 🏠 More houses 🏡 👷‍♀️ More jobs 👷‍♂️ 📈 More growth 🏗️ 📷 GMB Rep Lewis, from the brick industry in the Midlands, raising the issue with @AngelaRayner alongside @GMBGarySmith.
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It’s International Equal Pay Day - and employers should know that we will not stop fighting - and winning - equal pay battles right across our region. Pay equality strengthens us all. #equalpayday
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Tram Drivers. Ticket office staff. Maintenance teams. They've had enough. Strike action confirmed: Saturday 26 September through Goose Fair week. The door's always open: But tram bosses are fast running out of track. Our members deserve respect.
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