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Safety-FREE CAR WINTER CHECK
If anyone wants or is thinking of a vehicle full winter check.
KwikFit provides a FREE full winter check.
In Tameside, contact Manchester Road Hyde branch and call to book your appointment.
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INJURED AT WORK:
This is your trade union law firm.
Look to taking up the advantage of legal advice through your membership. Their contact number and website are above.
One advantage relates to any injury you may have whilst at work. Besides your union reps on health and safety grounds.…
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Flu season – leave the red nose to Rudolph!
A highly transmissible strain of influenza A (H3N2, sometimes referred to in the news as “super flu”) is driving a tidal wave of infections, with hospital admissions rising sharply and NHS trusts declaring critical incidents due to soaring patient numbers.
Symptoms include high-temperatures,…
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Sign our petition for a school nursing service
School support staff carry out some of the most important work with our children and should be able to focus on meeting their educational needs. Currently 82% of GMB schools members are providing healthcare support to pupils with medical conditions – something they never expected to do.
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Introduce a 2% wealth tax on assets over £10 million & tax reform
Success for the working people.
We urged the Government to launch a 2% tax on assets over £10 million and implement tax reform measures such as closing loopholes in non-doms and inheritance tax and reducing taxes on regular working people. We think…
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Government cuts mean 74% of schools are to have less funding.
Asking your MP to pledge to stop school cuts may well help. Such cuts,affect and impact on school workers and children’s education and school quality.
Join in by using the following link to get MPs working for us.
https://schoolcuts.org.uk/action/ask-your-mp-to-pledge-to-stop-school-cuts
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WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaign
12/04/26 Update
The government rejected compensation for WASPI women. They probably hoped that would be the end of it.
It isn’t. This is WASPI campaign is mounting a legal challenge, and together we’re deciding how to escalate the campaign. [1]
Millions of women born in the 1950s had…
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I’m raising £500 to JJ’s Scouting Adventure to Switzerland – Help Him Get There!
Story
I am a GMB member and my son JJ, aged 12, has been a proud member of 1st Mossley Scouts for the past 7 years. Through dedication, and a love for adventure, he’s been selected to join an incredible international…
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Some Feel Good News Circulating:
A three man crew from waste services have been praised for helping a 92 year lady. Who had fallen in her home which was on their service round, and needed help.
Please read the BBC article in the following link.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3rjp7101wno?app-referrer=deep-link
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GMB Tameside08 Branch Poster:
We are circulating our Poster to promote the use of our website.
Please ask for a copy to be emailed to you using the ‘Contact Us’ option on this site, so that the poster can be placed on your available noticeboards.
Where necessary, you can ask for a printed copy to…