“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