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As GMB national secretary for public services, I have spent the pandemic with NHS workers, paramedics, cleaners, caterers, care workers, local government employees – the public service workers who are seeing us through this crisis. Last…
When LabourList asked for some words on the last year for HeartUnions week, I thought ‘where to start…?’. It’s hard to step back and reflect when we’re still so deep in the thick of it. As national secretary for public services at GMB, I’ve…
The Chancellor’s winter economy plan essentially announced a mass cull of jobs that it deemed "non-viable" while imposing a 23% pay cut on all other jobs that had been protected under the furlough scheme. I've been a trade union organiser…
Yesterday's local government financial settlement showed us all what Sajid Javid thinks of local communities. The answer is not very much. It has become abundantly clear that being the secretary of state for local government was not the job…
