All news on the topic: GMB union

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Boots to close stores within days - full list of those closing their doors
Boots has confirmed eight stores will be closing in the next few weeks as the popular chain axes 300 shops in a bid to 'concentrate its team members where they are needed'
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Amazon workers to strike for four days including Black Friday in pay dispute
Members of the GMB union based at the company's Coventry site will walk out on November 7, 8 and 9 as well as on Black Friday on November 24
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Hopes of saving all 12,500 jobs at Wilko fading fast as 'some stores will close'
Administrators PwC said talks with potential buyers for parts of the group were ongoing but confirmed 'it’s clear the nature of this interest is not focused on the whole group'
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'Grounds for hope' over future of Wilko as administrators consider rescue bids
Wilko collapsed into administration last week, putting the future of its 400 shops and 12,500 workers at risk and now administrators at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) are accessing rescue offers
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Wilko shareholders handed more than £10m before collapse risking 12,000 jobs
Family-owned discount chain Wilko plunged into administration on Thursday after nearly 90 years and shareholders enjoyed millions while 12,000 people are facing potential redundancy
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Amazon hit with more more strikes as 1,100 workers are set for walkouts over pay
More than 100 staff will walk out in Rugeley, Staffs on August 3 and 4, taking Amazon’s strike-day tally to 26 this year
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Keir Starmer defies calls for U-turns on free school meals and benefits
Labour officials saw off attempts to get the party to scrap the Tory two-child benefit cap, along with calls to widen free school meals provision, as the leadership keeps a tight grip on spending plans
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Tories reward their voters with new hospitals as sites in Labour areas neglected
Shotley Bridge Hospital, in a Tory seat and part of the nearby County Durham and Darlington NHS trust, will have a newbuild by 2028 - but hospitals in Labour have been neglected
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Many graduates are working in a career that doesn't relate to their degree
Research reveals many graduates have had to wait an average of 7 months to land a career - that related to their degree.
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Major pay dispute hits secretive MoD missile site supplying Ukraine
More than 50 key workers at a weapons depot in Scotland have walked out - with another strike due next week - with one source claiming could earn more money at Lidl
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Nurses furious after being fobbed off with 'lowest pay rise in public sector'
Rishi Sunak will have to explain to 'over a million outraged NHS workers' after yesterday's pay announcement, Royal College of Nursing chief Pat Cullen said
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Bosses at nine water firms pocketed £13million - while YOU faced higher bills
It follows reports water firms are planning to hike household bills by up to 40% to meet costs of the sewage crisis
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Tories inflicting 'living nightmare' of inflation and soaring mortgages on UK
With another Bank of England rate hike predicted for today, the Government is accused of being out of ideas and clueless about people’s financial predicament
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'Next could owe us £100m - our shop jobs are equal to men's in warehouses'
A tribunal agreed that the work of 2,000 female Next sales staff was of equal value to that of males in the firm’s warehouses who earn between £2 and £14 an hour more
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Starmer says UK must seize green jobs or risk repeat of coal mining mistakes
The Labour leader said future generations 'will never forgive us' for failing to modernise as he sought to smooth tensions with the GMB union, which has criticised his plans to block new North Sea oil and gas developments
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Labour vow to make UK 'clean energy superpower' will support 500,000 jobs, party claims
Plan will see new jobs for plumbers, electricians, engineers and technicians to work on projects aiming to reduce the use of fossil fuels and tackle the climate emergency
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Tories 'murdered' manufacturing, says union leader amid fury at missing plan
MPs and unions today blasted the lack of an industrial strategy from the Government as fears grow about the impact on a series of firms and the wider economy
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Ambulance strikes to return as Unite members reject Tories' 'joke' pay offer
Emergency workers in Unite have joined the members of the Royal College of Nursing in rejecting the 5% pay rise. Ambulance staff are now planning to take more strike action
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NHS workers get King's Coronation invite - while Tories still snub them over pay
Nearly 4,000 medics and Armed Forces veterans have been invited to the King's Coronation - Professor Nola Ishmael is furious at the double standards the invitation exposes
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Australian green steel deal shows UK industry how to do it, say campaigners
Liberty Steel has struck a deal with the Australian government to support its switch to an electric arc furnace at its Whyalla plant - and unions believe it shows how cooperation can benefit the sector
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End in sight for doctors strikes as BMA agrees to open talks with Steve Barclay
The British Medical Association invited the minister to negotiations a day after the rest of the NHS workforce concluded talks with a deal for England
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Piers Morgan says all MOTD crew should 'walk out now' over Gary Lineker decision
The BBC announced that there will be no presenters on Match Of The Day tonight after a number of its pundits boycotted the programme over his suspension
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Chris Packham drags Lord Sugar into Gary Lineker BBC row over unearthed tweets
Tweets by Lord Alan Sugar are now being called into question following a row over what BBC stars can and can't say on social media
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1 in 4 ambulance staff to quit in crisis as over 50% see deaths from NHS delays
Almost a quarter of ambulance staff now plan to quit jobs according to the shock national NHS Staff Survey - while a separate poll for Channel 4’s Dispatches found 53% of ambulance workers said they had witnessed a death caused by NHS delays
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NHS strikes halted after Government agrees to offer workers an improved pay deal
The breakthrough means talks between NHS unions and ministers will start next week when almost 50,000 workers had planned walk-outs