GMB
RSS GMBAA slammed for "slow and unreliable" IT systems
News The GMB trade union has published a critical report on the hardware and software used by the AA's recovery vehicles after complaints from its members who are employed by the breakdown organisation. Paul Kenny,... [17 Aug 2007]
Outsourcing row breaks out at Westminster City Council
News Westminster has also dismissed allegations by the GMB trade union that the decision to outsource to Vertex has cost the council £179m more than if it had kept the service in-house. The Westminster spokesman said the... [22 Feb 2006]
AA rejects plan to move call centres to India
News Full consultation with the AA's recognised union, the AA Democratic Union, has begun but the GMB has hit out at the cuts. Paul Maloney, GMB National Secretary responsible for GMB members... [19 Aug 2005]
Union calls for European ban on staff-tracking RFID
News The general workers' union GMB has submitted a report to the European Commission warning that tagging technologies are an invasion of workers' privacy and calling for legislation to restrict its use. The... [19 Jul 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.06.05
Round-Up Paul Kenny, the GMB's acting general secretary, said: "The GMB is no Luddite organisation but we will not stand idly by to see our members reduced to automatons. And the GMB general... [10 Jun 2005]
Leader: Toilet time is personal - don't isolate your staff
Leader Workers' union GMB has declared open war by threatening strike action unless supermarkets and factories stop using tracking technology on their employees. Unsurprisingly supermarket Tesco, which uses the portable... [07 Jun 2005]
Union: 'Supermarkets must stop dehumanising staff'
News General workers union GMB said it wants supermarket distribution depots to stop 'dehumanising' staff by electronically tracking and timing each task they perform. Paul Kenny, the GMB's acting general... [07 Jun 2005]
Union slams government's 'consultant army'
News In the 2003 to 2004 financial year, the government spent at least £1.4bn on consultants to advise on a variety of projects - up from £986m in the previous year, according to research from the GMB union. [06 Jun 2005]
GMB Knowledge Management Case Study: Kangan Batman TAFE
White Paper Kangan Batman TAFE has been using GMB's RecFind successfully for many years in Registry to create and track files and record incoming mail and has taken the step of introducing Electronic Document Management (EDM). [27 Jan 2005]
Bradford IT staff vote in favour of strike action
News But the Unison and GMB unions want the option of secondment for those IT staff who do not want to transfer to the private sector - they claim attempts at negotiation have failed, with the council excluding them from the... [19 Jan 2004]
Bradford accused of flouting consultation rules in £100m outsourcing
News Unison and the GMB union claim that the council has refused to talk to them about the terms of transfer for affected IT staff. Bradford council management has been accused of ignoring staff and union consultation... [15 Jan 2004]
Bradford council IT strike looms after "complete breakdown" in talks
News The Unison and GMB unions had given the council until Christmas Eve to work out a compromise that would not involve the 135 public sector IT staff being permanently transferred to a private sector outsourcer, with the... [05 Jan 2004]
Workers help forge IT strategy at £4m call centre
News A spokesman for the GMB Britain's General Union, which last week launched a campaign to improve call centres nationwide, agreed. GMB's spokesman also welcomed NFU Mutual Direct's approach to the problem. [17 Apr 2000]
Alcatel buys up German firms
News AEG SVS Power Supply Systems Gmb and AEG SVS Power Supply Systems Sornewitz GmbH had a combined turnover of DM104m in 1997 and have 460 employees. French telecoms manufacturer Alcatel has acquired two German power... [05 Oct 1998]
