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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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Volunteers Requested for June 2026 event:
See our Event page
https://www.gmbtameside08.org.uk/events/GMB-Congress-Conference/
Volunteers being sought for stewarding at next year’s Congress in Blackpool. In addition to two volunteer stewards from GMB Scotland, and the Winter Garden stewards, National are looking for a further five/six North-West & Irish activists/branch members…
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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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Corporate Induction Day Dukinfield Town Hall
Our GMB union representatives attended the recent event with our union stand set up, with goodies to give out.
A number of questions were asked about the local branch by the visitors to them.
The most memorable and important point that the Reps got across to those who…
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The branch secretary Graham Forshaw and union representative Steve Royle attended a Public services event in Leeds over the weekend,
Guest speaker GMB General Secretary Gary Smith gave a speech on the Current state of affairs around public services
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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…