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Back in 2009 - when they were in opposition - Brighton Green Party opposed Tory plans to cut the wages of some of the council's lowest paid staff by £95 per week. And yet now, four years later with the Greens running the council, they…
Back in December we reported that: "Paul Kenny has today told the GMB Central Executive Council that he intends to step down as GMB general secretary in late 2013. Kenny was appointed Acting General Secretary on 24 March 2005, and was first…
Paul Kenny has today told the GMB Central Executive Council that he intends to step down as GMB general secretary in late 2013. Kenny was appointed Acting General Secretary on 24 March 2005, and was first elected General Secretary in 2006…
You may have read some commentary recently about a dastardly GMB plot to strip members of Progress, a faction operating within the Labour Party, of their party membership. Despite all the bluster, one thing is clear: there is no such move…
I detest factionalism, in all its forms. It would be an understatement to say that the war of words which has been taking place over recent days, prompted by the GMB's conference motion on the future of Progress within our party, pains me…
GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny has hit back at Lord Mandelson, after the former Business Secretary told Andrew Marr yesterday that unions needed a 21st century rethink (video here) as the row between the GMB and Progress continues. In a…
If you’ve ever been to a trade union conference, you’ll have experienced the strange feeling of déjà vu. You see faces you haven’t seen for 20 years. Isn’t that Dave Nellist over there? Wasn’t that Ted Knight? That paper-seller from the…
Following events at GMB congress on Monday (which we reported at the time), Progress have responded with the following statement: At a time when Britain is led by a government which appears unable to recognise, let alone overcome, the…
I reacted to yesterday’s vote of condemnation of Progress at the GMB Conference, and the subsequent statement by the GMB’s Paul Kenny about “outlawing Progress as part of the Labour Party” more in sorrow than in anger. Since the 2010…
There has been lots of chatter today about the GMB and Progress, but perhaps due to the relative lack of journalists here in person (whither the industrial correspondent?) with the creditable exception of the Guardian amongst others it…
According to the Guardian: The GMB's executive said in a statement: "The executive noted that over a quarter of motions to GMB congress from branches across the whole of the UK relate to the political stance of the union. "The executive…
We all know that the relationship between the police and the trade union movement has been chequered. And in the Labour movement, we are most uncomfortable with the idea of Police and Crime Commissioners. However the elections are going to…
