Change to Addison Lee driver contracts boosts earnings June 8, 2016 A new contract for Addison Lee drivers has resulted in a seven per cent boost to earnings. The new deal has been road tested by a small number of the private car hire company’s drivers, who have reported an increase in the amount they are taking home compared with this time last year. The deal [...]
Nuclear strike: Decommissioning workers to vote on industrial action over pensions January 9, 2017 The UK could be facing industrial disputes at nuclear power plants after unions agreed to ballot decommissioning workers over a potential strike. Workers at plants including Sellafield could launch industrial action after the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority kicked off a statutory consultation over changes to final salary schemes for staff at 19 sites across the UK. Read more: Engineering union Prospect swells to [...]
PepsiCo says 380 jobs are at risk as it prepares to shut its Walkers Peterlee factory March 1, 2017 PepsiCo, the US owner of brands including Pepsi and Tropicana, has said it is proposing to close its Walkers Snacks factory in Peterlee, County Durham, putting 380 jobs at risk. Under the plan, production at the plant would be moved to other UK sites, PepsiCo said, as it looks to find "crucial savings" and bolster [...]
Addison Lee drivers to gridlock Mayfair on Tuesday May 22, 2016 Over 100 Addison Lee drivers are set to gridlock Mayfair’s Berkeley Square tomorrow during a major protest over a fall in pay rates. Members of GMB, the union for private hire drivers, will block the road outside the office of Carlyle Group, that bought Addison Lee for £300m in 2013. The union claims that Addison Lee, [...]
Uber faces UK legal action from GMB union over driver employee rights July 29, 2015 The GMB union has launched legal action against Uber over the way it treats drivers. The union claims drivers should be considered employees and has a legal duty to provide them with working rights on pay, holiday, health and safety, and grievances. Uber considers drivers as self-employed "partners". Now GMB has instructed law firm Leigh [...]
Optimism growing over “make or break” steel pensions vote ahead of next week’s result February 9, 2017 Optimism is increasing over a "make or break" vote for the future of British steel, with a result expected to be announced as soon as Wednesday. Members of GMB, Unite and Community are still being balloted over proposals that will see Tata Steel pump £1bn into the sprawling Port Talbot steelworks in exchange for workers accepting [...]
Tata’s UK steelworkers face a “make or break” vote on pensions as union leaders back reforms January 26, 2017 UK steelworkers are set for a "make or break" vote on reforms that could determine the fate of Port Talbot. Today unions united behind proposals that will see Tata Steel pump £1bn into the sprawling Port Talbot steelworks in exchange for workers accepting changes to their pension schemes. The ballot on the changes will run from Monday to mid-February. [...]
EU referendum: Corbyn must do more to engage voters, says union boss – as Darling and Osborne team up June 2, 2016 Despite multiple interventions in the EU debate, Jeremy Corbyn must do more to engage voters, a top union boss has warned. The GMB union's Tim Roache said the Remain campaign could end up losing the EU referendum if Labour voters aren't move involved in the debate. While phone polls put Remain steadily ahead, online polling [...]
British steelworkers vote in favour of Tata’s reforms to pensions February 15, 2017 Steelworkers in three unions have voted in favour of proposals that will see their pensions benefits cut. The proposals will see Tata Steel pump £1bn into the sprawling Port Talbot steelworks in exchange for workers accepting changes to their pension schemes. More than 70 per cent of the steelworker members of GMB, Community and Unite [...]
Royal Mail pensions closure: Unions warn on strikes if they disagree with plans January 5, 2017 Royal Mail today revealed plans to scrap its mammoth pension scheme that serves 90,000 postal workers. The former state-owned firm said the current final salary surplus would run out in 2018 and unless changes were implemented, the bill for servicing the scheme could run to over £1bn a year – a level it said “would [...]