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GMB@DCCHomecare

Posted: 16th July 2021

Dear member, GMB Union have been  pressurising DCC regarding the terrible conditions that you have all been working under and the service that is being provided to our most vulnerable. We had previously advised you that we have had a couple of meetings and still the problems persist. You may have seen Jim in the…

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GMB@Homecare

Posted: 25th June 2021

GMB Dundee City Council Homecare Members (and please share with non-members) Despite us being given assurances from social care management that measures are being put in place to help with workload and changing duties, we have been inundated with calls from you expressing concerns about what you are having to endure right now. We know…

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GMB DCC Pay Justice Update – TC’s Members

Posted: 23rd June 2021

Jim Cunningham and Helen Meldrum met with officers from Dundee City Council yesterday regarding the GMB grievance over pay injustice in the council and its associate employers, Leisure and Culture Dundee and Tayside Contracts. .. There is nothing to report from that meeting other than there are still documents and details of bonuses that they have not shared…

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GMB DCC Pay Justice Update – LACD Members

Posted: 23rd June 2021

Jim Cunningham and Helen Meldrum met with officers from Dundee City Council yesterday regarding the GMB grievance over pay injustice in the council and its associate employers, Leisure and Culture Dundee and Tayside Contracts. .. There is nothing to report from that meeting other than there are still documents and details of bonuses that they have not shared…

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GMB Dundee City Council Education Members

Posted: 18th June 2021

Dear member, We (GMB Union) have requested that the vaccination plans are ramped up for members who want to be vaccinated. We have asked for vaccination buses to go to schools to allow staff to access this during the working day, however as it’s almost the summer break, we have also requested that Dundee City…

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GMB@TaysideContracts

Posted: 28th May 2021

Being a part of GMB Union works! 

You will recall last year GMB took the lead in submitting a collective grievance on behalf of members in Tayside Contracts who had been forced to take annual leave. This contradicted the agreement that we had reached with Tayside Contracts as well as the national agreement we reached with COSLA. 

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GMB@DCCSocialCareWorkers

Posted: 26th May 2021

FAO – Homecare, home helps and Community Alarm

Dear Member,  

After weeks of constant pressure from your union GMB, and the stories from those of you we spoke to as well as the GMB Union survey results from Homecare all detailing the tough and sometimes harrowing pressures you have been working under everywhere in social care within Dundee city council. GMB have forced managements hand in dealing with…

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GMB@PayJustice Claimant Update

Posted: 21st May 2021

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT UPDATE FOR GMB CLAIMANT MEMBERS OF THE DUNDEE PAY JUSTICE CAMPAIGN

Dear Member

For those of you who have submitted your equal pay claim, many of you are now starting to receive emails from the solicitors.

It is very exciting news that your claims…

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