“Average earnings in the South East still lag 13.6% below real value of earnings in 2007 after inflation but recent rises in pay is a welcome development. Across the board average…

“It is high time that the government grants to local authorities be increased to ease the pressure and this needs to be followed up by a number of years where spending by councils…

“Our members will not accept being forced into a private academy which is not in the interests of the staff or our children’s education”, says GMB Southern

“Our members can see that their trade union will use its industrial and political muscle to ensure that unscrupulous private contractors like ISS do not succeed in oppressing NHS…

We would urge Wandsworth Council to review this highly lucrative contract in a bid to bring it back under local authority control where they belong, says GMB Southern

"Our members won’t put up with the type of workplace conditions that belong in the Victorian era and they will keep fighting for their basic rights to sick pay and wages they can…

“Forcing staff to choose between a cut to their pay or endangering patient safety without a thought of the consequences, is quite frankly shocking”, says GMB Southern

“This demonstrates that Unions can work together with employers to benefit and support members and their families in times of crisis and loss”, says GMB Southern

GMB recovers compensation on behalf of estate of deceased member

“We would urge Wandsworth Council to review this highly lucrative contract in a bid to bring it back under local authority control where they belong”, says GMB Southern