Green Co members (Sheffield Household Waste Recycling Centres) are embroiled in a bitter battle after staff have been sacked or forced to leave their jobs in a long dispute about how the centres are being run.

GMB Protest At Northern Consumer Council Meeting Over Profiteering And Cuts To Jobs And Pensions In The Industry.

Please find attached the report of voting for the CEC Central Executive Council Elections 2015. 

As you will be aware the Steel industry in the UK is in real crisis, with massive job losses taking place with the closure of the SSI plant in Redcar, redundancies in Tata Steel in Scunthorpe and the potential closure of the plants in Scotland on top of job losses which will take place in Rotherham and redundancies and closures in Caparo Industries.

It is such an honour and I'm so proud and humbled to be elected General Secretary of our great union says Tim Roache.

The independent scrutineer Electoral Reform Services have advised of their certified result of the Election of General Secretary & Treasurer 2015;

McCARTHY, Paul              43%

ROACHE, Tim John          57%

Tim John ROACHE has been duly elected as General Secretary & Treasurer.

Big brands should pay £10 per hour living wage, end zero hours contracts and confront bullying managers to bring security to the mainly young worker says GMB.

We will work positively with the company to ensure this safeguards existing and also creates new quality jobs so desperately needed says GMB.

The GMB is organising a national day of action which is being led by our National Young Members’ Network.  We will be protesting outside M&S Simply Food stores which are franchised out to Select Service Partner UK Ltd (SSP).

Rock For Refugees - Thursday, 19th November 2015 at Unity Works (Westgate, Wakefield).  Acts include the Solicitors, Crybabycry, Matt Abbott and Jilly Riley - £10.00 entry.