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GMB@DCCcarers

Posted: 16th March 2020

Dear Member We have been in contact with Dundee City Council and asked several questions on your behalf. Unfortunately, there has not been enough guidance, support or additional resources provided to you by your employer, and we now understand that some of you may have been put at risk by being sent to households where…

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GMB@DCC parking

Posted: 13th March 2020

Dear member We have written to Dundee City Council to ask what guidelines and training are being given to parking staff who come in to contact with members of the public who are told to self isolate or are diagnosed with the Coronavirus. From our observations, it seems very little has been done other than to…

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GMB@TCKITCHENS

Posted: 13th March 2020

Dear Member Tayside Contracts have consistently promised that no one would suffer any detriment as a result of moving to the Central Production Unit. Meetings started yesterday, where GMB were not invited to every meeting and some of you were upset with the news that was delivered. We have now met with TC management and…

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GMB@Angus Care

Posted: 13th March 2020

Dear Member We have asked Angus Council what training, guidelines or additional resources have been provided to you in relation to the Coronavirus. To say the response has been inadequate is an understatement, and you should be provided with more resources to protect yourselves. A poster, or being handed out NHS guidelines is wholly inadequate…

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GMB@DCC

Posted: 12th March 2020

Dear member We have written to Dundee City Council to ask what guidelines and training are being given to members who come in to contact with members of the public who are told to self isolate or are diagnosed with the Coronavirus. Also what planning is being made if staffing levels become affected and how…

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GMB@DCC- FAO – enviroment/land/construction

Posted: 12th March 2020

Dear member We have written to Dundee City Council to ask what guidelines and training are being given to members who come in to contact with members of the public who are told to self isolate or are diagnosed with the Coronavirus. Also what planning is being made if staffing levels become affected and how…

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GMB@FOA DCC Housing staff

Posted: 12th March 2020

Dear member, We have written to Dundee City Council to ask what guidelines and training are being given to housing staff who come in to contact with members of the public who are told to self isolate or are diagnosed with the Coronavirus. From our observations, it seems very little has been done other than to…

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GMB@Taysidecontacts

Posted: 12th March 2020

Dear Member We have written to Tayside Contracts to ask what will happen if you are advised to self isolate over the coronavirus. We have had assurances that if you are advised to self isolate, you will be paid in full and that this will not be recorded as sickness absence. What isn’t clear is…

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GMB@DCC Care

Posted: 12th March 2020

Dear Member Please find link below to a formal letter on your behalf. As your Union, the GMB, we are deeply concerned there is no evidence that any formal training or additional resource has been provided to you in relation to the coronavirus. Dundee City Council must do better to protect both you, our members,…

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GMB@ Support Staff Members

Posted: 12th March 2020

Dear member

We have written to Dundee City Council to ask what guidelines and training are being given to school support staff who come in to contact with children and families who are told to self isolate or are diagnosed with the Coronavirus.

From our observations, it seems very little has been done other than to…

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