FAO: GMB MEMBERS IN DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL, PERTH & KINROSS COUNCIL AND TAYSIDE CONTRACTS
Dear GMB Member
GMB Scotland in COSLA: Your Ballot Countdown
Yesterday, Monday 30 May 2022, GMB served formal notice to the following employers of our intention to ballot workers in Schools/Early Years and those who deliver Waste & Recycling services.
- Dundee City Council
- Perth & Kinross Council
- Tayside Contracts
Ballots will be posted out on Monday 6 June and those involved in the ballot will start receiving them later that week. The ballot will run throughout the summer until Tuesday 26 July.
If you have not received your ballot paper by Monday 13th June at the latest, please contact the Dundee office 01382 225 491
(If your call is diverted to voicemail, please leave a message to advise you haven’t received the ballot paper with your Name, home address, contact telephone number and name of your employer)
The COSLA 2 per cent offer in the face of the biggest cost of living crisis in forty years is beneath contempt. It is clear that without a strong industrial response, this pay offer will mean many local government staff will go from the frontline of public service to below the breadline – an appalling prospect that we cannot leave unchallenged.
That’s why we are asking everyone balloted to vote YES for industrial action.
If you have colleagues who are not in GMB, please encourage them to join GMB: https://www.gmb.org.uk/join-gmb
Fraternally
GMB Dundee
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(Congress 2021 agreed that membership rates would remain unchanged from those implemented from 1 Oct 2020.)
From 1 Oct 2020
Full time – Grade 1 = £14.57 per month
Part time – Grade 2 = £8.40 per month, GMB members working part-time for 20 hours or less and GMB members under 18 years. If you work in a school please check the current GMB rate with GMB Scotland 0141 332 8641.
Sick and unemployed members = 5p per week.
Retired life members = If a GMB member retires on or after 1 July 2015, they can apply for free retired life membership within three months of no longer paying contributions in line with rules 45 or 46. To qualify, they have to be permanently retired from paid work, be members for at least 5 years and apply in writing to become retired life members of the union.
Apprentices = £2 per month
Non-working Students = £1 per month, Students who are in employment will continue to pay the rate applicable to their employment and hours of work.
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Posted: 31st May 2022