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GMB Congress 2019!
And for those who were here last year, welcome back to Brighton. We hope you all have a wonderful time by the seaside – and get to enjoy some sunshine when you can.
GMB exists to make a difference for our members and to improve their lives at work.
We campaign, we organise, we bargain and will leave no stone unturned to get a better deal for those we represent. We find issues and we mobilise to do something about them. We light fires; we don’t sit around and wait to put them out.
This week is about enabling all that to happen.
We’ll debate crucial motions, hear from passionate speakers from across our union and movement, and celebrate the big success stories we’ve achieved over the last 12 months.
We know that we are at our strongest when we all pull together in the same direction. We get the best deal for our members through worker power, through our collective strength.
Throughout Congress there are plenty of opportunities to forge new partnerships and build on existing ones, from fringe events to regional meet ups and of course President’s Night.
So, let’s work hard, have fun and make sure we all leave Brighton fired up and ready to grow our union, build our workplaces and change things for our members - together as one.
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Birmingham & West Midlands Region will count GMB Scotland
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4 Seating Plan
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Birmingham & North West GMB West Midlands & Irish Scotland Southern
National GMA’s Office Staff Northern Guests
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5 Obituary List
PENSIONERS Andrew Dales Liam Gilsenan M Allit Nigel Davies David Goulding M Armstrong Clive Grainger Joan Grindrod June Biezner Peter Higton Martin Hamnett Audrey Brown Darius Stanczuk Leslie Hutchinson Norman G Cargill Reginald Wall Michael Isaacs Peter Cox Steven Westbrook Catherine Phoenix Eileen Crawshaw Martyn Wood Graeme Smith Ronald Stanley LONDON REGION GMB SCOTLAND Cuddington M Cunningham John Antonian Peter Hope K Garlick Helen Archbold Ronnie Leighton William M Gifford Roy Boosey SOUTHERN REGION Agnes Johnstone Stephen Carlisle Hodgson Gary Doolan Annie Cooke D Kell Richard O’Leary Pat Reaney E Last Terry Tarling Terry Trim Michael Marlow Simon Virgo Gerry Waterhouse J Matchett MIDLAND & EAST Brenda Moor GMB WALES & SOUTH COAST REGION Shirley Anne Pearson WEST REGION James Ripley Pat Nicoll Steven Blackmore William Robb Michael Cookson D Robinson NORTHERN REGION David Hayes Carol A Rowe Fred Asburner Paul Raybould A Smith Frank Earl Paul Tait John D Smith Derek McCabe Gary Williams M Steele Bill Holstead George Alexander Jenny Thompkins YORKSHIRE & NORTH Stenhouse DERBYSHIRE REGION K Stewart NORTH WEST & IRISH Lee Acklam K Thompson REGION Eric Batty G Waterhouse Francis Albertina Sheila Farmeary Margaret Watkins Andrew Almond S Whittington Anthony Ball Robert Bannister BIRMINGHAM & WEST Tim Braddy MIDLANDS REGION Michael Burt Dean Avery Paul Carr Valerie Bamford Martin Denson Trevor Boden Alan Entwistle Mr J Brown Ken Fleming
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GMB PUBLIC SERVICES SECTION Sunday 9 June GO PUBLIC forward for public services 12.45-13.45 Room 1a, Ground Floor
GMB PUBLIC SERVICES “GO PUBLIC” CAMPAIGN Chair: Rehana Azam – National Secretary Speakers: Sharon Wilde – National Officer Rachel Harrison – National Officer Kevin Brandstatter – National Officer Karen Leonard – National Officer Nadine Houghton – National Officer George Georgiou – GMB National Pensions Organiser
GMB Public Services has launched the ‘GoPublic’ Campaign around five key priorities:-
1. Campaigning for Public Services Funding 2. Challenging Outsourcing and Privatisation 3. Winning Fair Pay and Pensions for Public Service Workers 4. Celebrating the role of Public Service Workers 5. Building Public Services fit for the Future
Refreshments will be provided
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NATIONAL HEALTH SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT Sunday 9 June 12.45-13.45 Room 1b, Ground Floor
WHY ARE WE STILL DYING AT WORK – AND WHAT CAN BE DONE? Chair: Dan Shears, National HS&E Director Speakers: Mick Lancaster, GMB London Region Tracey Seward, Families Against Corporate Killers (FACK)
Official statistics tell us that Britain has never been safer or healthier, with workplace deaths at an all-time low. Yet GMB members know from their own painful experiences that nothing could be further from the truth. Every death is a tragedy, every death is preventable, and our speakers will not only give their stories, but explain what we can all do to reduce the risks at work.
Refreshments will be provided
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W Y O R G K E R I N G I N E N Sunday 9 June 12.45-13.45 Room 1c, Ground Floor ‘SWITCHED ON’ PUTTING GMB MEMBERS’ VOICES AT THE HEART OF THE ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE Chair: Charlotte Nichols – GMB National Research & Policy Officer
Speakers: Tom Greatrex – Chief Executive, Nuclear Industry Association Tim Roache – GMB General Secretary Hazel Nolan – GMB Scotland Organiser OLD Charlotte Gardner – GMB Chair for British Gas Staff Side Neil Foster – GMB National Research & Policy Officer
GMB has 50,000 members directly and indirectly employed in Energy. Most in decent, well-paid, well-organised jobs.
The Climate Change Committee’s Report ‘Net Zero’, means massive decisions being made on the UK’s energy and industrial policy.
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The economic and industrial consequence of these decisions will directly impact the jobs and livelihoods of GMB members, their families and their communities - not just in Energy but into every home, job, business and nook and cranny of our lives and society.
Switched On is GMB’s campaign highlighting the immense contribution our members working in energy make to the UK’s homes, industries and communities. It is about putting GMB members are the heart of the energy and climate change debate.
GMB members are the real experts on how we can practically meet the country’s energy needs in a way that is environmentally and economically sustainable.
Come and hear what our panel of experts have to say and join in the debate.
Refreshments will be provided
GMB LONDON REGION Sunday 9 June 12.45-13.45 Room 1d, Ground Floor
FREE OCOLAN Chair: Unmesh Desai, Assembly Member Speakers: Steve Sweeney, Morning Star Unmesh Desai, Assembly Member One other to be confirmed
Come to our Fringe to hear first-hand from speakers who have been on a delegation to Turkey. Hear how trade unions have been fighting to end the oppression and stop the state crackdown on trade unions, left, minority, women and other progressive forces and the suppression of democracy. Come along to discuss how we can show solidarity with them and support the Free Ocalan Campaign.
Refreshments will be provided
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NATIONAL EXTERNAL RELATIONS AND TRAINING DEPARTMENT Monday 10 June 12.45-13.45 Room 1a, Ground Floor
WOMEN IN THE WORKING WORLD Chair: Michelle Gordon, Regional Equality/Political Officer, Southern Region Speakers: Alison Phillips, Daily Mirror Editor Hazel Nolan, GMB Scotland Organiser Angela Rayner MP, Shadow Education Secretary
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Women in the working world is the topic of headlines year in, year out. From the #MeToo movement to the gender pay gap and equal pay, women often have a different experience of the working world. Join our panel for short speeches and a group discussion about the role of women in the workplace, how women workers and traditionally women dominated sectors can, should and are organising and what we can do to challenge the stereotypes of ‘women’s work’.
Refreshments will be provided
GMB WALES & SOUTH WEST REGION Monday 10 June 12.45-13.45 Room 1b, Ground Floor
MAKING WALES A FAIR WORK NATION THROUGH SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP Chair: Mike Payne – Regional Political Officer Speakers: Tim Roache – GMB General Secretary Martin Mansfield – Wales TUC General Secretary
Social partnership arrangements between Government, employers and unions in Wales have been key to mitigating many of the worst outcomes of austerity.
However, statutory underpinning is required to deliver a true social partnership model in Wales.
One of the key principles must involve an aim to increase collective bargaining coverage and access to the workplace for trade unions in Wales. This aim is central to the delivery of fair work in Wales and fair work outcomes required of procurement and business support must be made statutory.
Refreshments will be provided
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GMB NATIONAL EQUALITY AND INCLUSION DEPARTMENT Monday 10 June 12.45-13.45 Room 1c, Ground Floor
MAKING THE WORKPLACE MORE ACCESSIBLE FOR EVERYONE – NEURODIVERSITY TOOLKIT AND REASONABLE ADJUSTMENT PASSPORT Chair: Farzana Jumma, Disabled Workers Lead, National Equality Forum Speakers: Quinn Roache, Policy Officer: Disability and LGBT+ Equality Sherine Thompson, GMB Merton Rep and TUC Women’s Committee, Disabled seat
Interactive session aimed at Reps and Branch activists focusing on how to support members both collectively and individually using the GMB neurodiversity ‘thinking differently at work’ toolkit and Reasonable Adjustment Disability Passport GMB launched with the TUC in February.
Refreshments will be provided
GMB NATIONAL OFFICE Monday 10 June 12.45-13.45 Room 1d, Ground Floor
PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION ON GMB ANNUAL ACCOUNTS Chair: Allan Wylie, Finance Director Speaker: Graham Dow, Chief Accountant
Refreshments will be provided
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GMB COMMERCIAL SERVICES SECTION Tuesday 11 June 12.45-13.45 Room 1a, Ground Floor
UNIONISING THE GIG ECONOMY - CAN THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT MEET THE CHALLENGES?
Chair: Mick Rix, GMB National Officer Speakers: Tim Roache, GMB General Secretary Kate Bell, Head of Department, Rights, International Social and Economic, TUC Ed Cross – GMB Senior Rep and Lead Claimant, Hermes Cornelia Broos – Head of Poste and Logistics UniGlobal Union
Traditional work and employment has changed over the years. We see a return to more exploitative employment, with low pay and poor conditions of employment. How do trade unions give hope to working people? Does exploitation have to be the new norm?
Does GMB and the trade union movement have a relevant strategy? Are we geared up to respond to these challenges?
How do we organise and represent working people who are often fearful of their futures, struggling to pay the bills, pay the rent and put food on the table whilst encountering hostile employers?
Come and listen to our panel of experts, feel free to participate and share your experiences and ideas. Hear what GMB and others across the International movement are doing. We may not be able to provide all the answers, but with your help we will give it good go!
Refreshments will be provided
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GMB CREDIT UNION Tuesday 11 June CreditUnion 12.45-13.45 Room b, Ground Floor
GMB CREDIT UNION – GET THE MESSAGE OUT
Chair: David Castledine, GMB Credit Union Director and Treasurer Speakers: Tim Roache, General Secretary Martin Allen, Regional Secretary, Midland & East Coast David Castledine, Director and Treasurer Hans Billman, GMB Credit Union Manager Paul McCarthy, Regional Secretary, North West & Irish Lisa Johnson, Director of External Relations and Training
The Fringe meeting enables attendees to be updated on further progress in terms of the GMB Credit Union and how this can, will and is impacting the whole GMB Community. To understand the GMB Credit Union journey into a new phase and how attendees can get the message out to their respective Regions & members.
Refreshments will be provided
UNIONLINE Tuesday 11 June 12.45-13.45 Room 1c, Ground Floor
TORY ASSAULTS ON ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR PERSONAL INJURY VICTIMS
Chair: Susan Harris, Legal Director GMB Speakers: Richard Burgon MP, Leeds East and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice Tim Roache, General Secretary GMB Matt Cordall, Head of Legal Practice Unionline
18 Fringe Events | Tuesday
Richard and Matt will outline how Tory assaults on the civil justice system will impact our members, injured through no fault of their own whilst working or if they are involved in a road traffic accident that was caused by a third party. Learn how the govt is introducing restrictions on the compensation those injured in traffic accidents will receive and limiting the ability of claimants to get assistance with the costs of instructing a lawyer to assist them against the might of the legally represented insurance industry. Matt will also consider how this impacts on UnionLine and our members.
Come and talk to us about your law firm- owned by GMB for GMB members.
Refreshments will be provided
GMB SCOTLAND / THOMPSONS SCOTLAND Tuesday 11 June 12.45-13.45 Room 1d, Ground Floor
LESSONS FROM GLASGOW EQUAL PAY CAMPAIGN
Chair: Hazel Nolan, GMB Scotland Organiser Speakers: Shona Thomson- Glasgow G1 Branch Secretary Rhea Wolfson- GMB Scotland Organiser David Martyn- Thompson’s Solicitors Rehana Azam- GMB National Secretary for Public Services
The Glasgow Equal Pay strike was a historic event, not only for women workers in Glasgow, but for the whole of the GMB Union.
This fringe will focus on the events that led up to this historic settlement, and the organisational lessons that can be learned in fighting for justice for women workers.
Refreshments will be provided. Fringe co-sponsored by Thompsons Scotland
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SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD Wednesday 12 June 12.45-13.45 Room 1a, Ground Floor
SHOW RACISM the RED CARD Chair: Ged Grebby, Chief Executive - Show Racism the Red Card Speakers: Tim Roache – General Secretary – GMB Leroy Rosenior MBE – Former footballer & Vice President of Show Racism the Red Card Liam Rosenior - Former footballer, TV pundit & patron of Show Racism the Red Card Stephen Cavalier – Chief Executive – Thompsons Solicitors Taranjit Chana – GMB London Region Tony Higgins – FIFPro, the World Players’ Union
Show Racism the Red Card is the UK’s largest anti-racism educational charity.
Working extensively to educate against racism in society, using the high profile of footballers to educate against racism, for the last 20+ years
The campaign’s Education Workers have delivered high quality educational workshops to hundreds of thousands of young people across the UK and now work with approximately 50,000 young people per year and approx 6,000 adults.
SRtRC also work directly with teachers and educators to help support them to recognise and respond to racist incidents and to help embed equality in schools across the UK
Refreshments will be provided.
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GMB NATIONAL EQUALITY & INCLUSION DEPARTMENT Wednesday 12 June 12.45-13.45 Room 1b, Ground Floor
ENGAGING YOUNG WORKERS (INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP) Facilitators: Melanie Bartlett, GMB Young Members Lead Rachael Hookway, GMB Young Members Network Secretary
Interactive session from GMB Young Members Network on how best to engage young people in your workplace. Topics to include: Issues that matter to young workers, how to talk to young workers about joining and ideas for organising locally.
Refreshments will be provided.
GMB NATIONAL HS&E / GMB NATIONAL EQUALITY & INCLUSION DEPARTMENTS Wednesday 12 June 12.45-13.45 Room 1c, Ground Floor
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID – IS IT THE ANSWER? Chair: Dan Shears, GMB National HS&E Director Speakers: Judith McNulty-Green, IOSH (invited) Other Speakers to be confirmed
Mental Health First Aid has widely promoted as the approach best suited to tackling mental health issues at work. The matter has been raised in Parliament, and calls have been made to changes Regulations to make MHFA part of general first aid at work.
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Recent IOSH research however has suggested that the MHFA approach may not be the ultimate answer to mental health at work issues, and the Health and Safety Executive has not yet supported it.
So, is Mental Health First Aid the best way for you and your workplace? Come to our fringe meeting to find out…
Refreshments will be provided.
GMB NATIONAL EXTERNAL RELATIONS AND TRAINING DEPARTMENT Wednesday 12 June 12.45-13.45 Room 1d, Ground Floor
A BRIEFING FROM PALESTINE - FEEDBACK AND DISCUSSION ON DELEGATION TO PALESTINE Chair: Martial Kurtz, PSC Speakers: Barbara Plant, National President June Minnery, President, Public Services
Feedback and discussion from Barbara and June’s recent delegation visit - come to share experiences and hear what the delegation saw, did and heard.
Refreshments will be provided.
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36...... B&CE, The Peoples Pension 14/15.....Stroke Association 30...... Banana link 17...... The Mary Turner Memorial 26...... UIA Mutual 9...... Bookmarks Bookshops 28...... UIB – GMB Protect 7...... BITUD 4...... UNIONLINE 12...... Care 4 Calais 25...... War on Want 37...... Class 19...... Women Against State 34...... Cuba Solidarity Campaign Pension Inequality 21...... Dying to Work 27...... Future of Gas 31...... Wortley Hall 32...... GMB Credit Union 35...... York Disabled Workers 3...... GMB Health, Safety & Environment Co-operative Ltd 40...... GMB Internet Cafe 23...... GMB NHS Dental Plan 1/2...... GMB National Stand 13...... GMB Union Lifelong Learning Fund Projects 33...... GMB Retired Members Association 18...... Health Campaigns Together 10...... Just A Ball Game CONGRESS 2019 20...... LRD 11...... LV= Liverpool Victoria SPONSORS: 29...... Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Blackfords Solicitors 22...... Palestine Solidarity Campaign LV= Liverpool Victoria 5...... Pellacraft Ltd Pattinson Brewer Solicitors 24...... Show Racism The Red Card Pellacraft Ltd 6...... Simpsons Solicitors Trade Union Fund Managers Ltd 41...... Stress Network UNIONLINE
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B&CE health service providers Stand: 36 manage health-at-work. It will B&CE is a not-for-profit allow workers to manage their organisation, dedicated own health records, delivering to making a difference to a consistent approach to the lives of working people. complying with occupational Founded over 75 years ago, we health duties. have been providing simple We also make a difference employee benefits ever since. through our Charitable Trust, Our award-winning workplace which was set up in 1991 to give pension, The People’s Pension, is back to construction. And to available to all industries, now date, we’ve given out over £3m. has over 4 million members from all sectors. The Trust has three main aims which are to provide: B&CE is now developing a new occupational health solution • financial help for people to improve the health of in times of need – and our construction workers. People’s Construction Worker Helpline Health will provide an online offers free, confidential tool to help employers and support and guidance accredited occupational
28 • grants towards education, bananas and pineapples based training and retraining – to on environmental, social and help workers get in to or back economic sustainability. in to construction or retrain in another construction skill We aim to achieve tangible changes in the lives of • grants towards occupational people working in banana health and safety initiatives and pineapple chains that – to help us work towards incorporate: a safer and healthier construction industry for all • Fair and ethical trade practices, based on a fair Visit us at the B&CE stand at the living wage, equitable GMB Congress to learn more distribution of value along the about how we can support you. chain.
For more information, visit our • Dignity at work and respect website: www.bandce.co.uk/GMB for labour and trade union rights.
• Sustainable production systems which reduce Banana Link dependence on hazardous substances and minimise Stand: 30 adverse health and Banana Link is a pioneering environmental impacts on not- for- profit organisation natural resources, workers working in close partnership and communities. with small scale farmers’ • Constructive dialogue and banana and pineapple between all economic and workers’ organisations in non- economic stakeholders Latin America, Africa and that accelerates a transition the Caribbean. We combine to fair, equitable and campaigning and advocacy sustainable banana and with multi- stakeholder dialogue pineapple chains worldwide. to promote fair and equitable production and trade in
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1 Colour Dark Blue - Pantone 282 Blackfords LLP is a top ranked GMB to keep Britain working. firm of solicitors who provide a specialist criminal and 1 Colour Black regulatory service to GMB members in partnership with
Unionline.ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Blackfords also has a Bookmarks bookshop Font Trade Gothic LH Extended abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz specialist1234567890-=+,.;’’?/– family and childcare Stand: 9 department offering GMB members discounted rates Bookmarks is the UK’s leading for all family and matrimonial socialist bookshop providing a matters. service to activists and trade unionists. With a shop in central Blackfords are experts in London and an online bookstore, advising and representing www.bookmarksbookshop.co.uk members in criminal our range includes politics, investigations and court trade unionism, labour history, proceedings arising in and out the environment, women’s of the workplace. A 24 hour liberation, LGBT, black struggle, service is provided in the event culture, fiction and progressive of a member needing urgent children’s books. We also representation at a police sell t-shirts, mugs, badges, station. This service is also posters, CDs and DVDs. We extended to members’ family are approved sellers to the and friends. TUC and provide bookstalls for union and campaign meetings Blackfords provide advice and around the country. We give representation to members discounts to union branches. facing proceedings from their Join our email list to receive professional or regulatory body, news and special offers, info@ such as HCPC and NMC. We also bookmarksbookshop.co.uk represent at Coroner’s Inquests Follow us on twitter twitter.com/ where a member is involved in Bookmarks_books & facebook a work related death and act in www.facebook.com/bookmarks. DVLA and taxi licensing matters, bookshop
30 Britain Israel Trade Union Care4Calais Dialogue (BITUD) Stand: 12 Stand: 7 Care4Calais is a volunteer-run Britain Israel Trade Union charity delivering essential aid Dialogue (BITUD) strengthens and support to refugees living the link between the Histadrut, in the worst conditions across the Palestine General Northern France and Belgium. Federation of Trade Unions We believe in a fair and tolerant (PGFTU) and the British trade British society and advocate union movement. for a welcoming and inclusive attitude towards refugees in the BITUD aims: UK.
• to promote efforts towards In the last twelve months finding a just and lasting we have been delighted to peace settlement for both welcomedelegations from Israelis and Palestinians. the GMB to our warehouse in Calais and in the next twelve • to initiate dialogue by months we hope to welcome taking British delegations to many more. For details please meet with both Israeli and email [email protected] or Palestinian trade unionists. [email protected]. • to build support for the Peace We operate year round from Process in the UK by providing Calais and our focus is to meetings and briefings for provide warm clothing, bedding, British trade unionists. food and medical assistance to people in desperate need. We also provide social support and interaction, including language lessons and sports and music workshops. We are on the ground with the refugees every single day and are respectful of their common humanity and responsive to their needs.
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The Centre for Labour and CSC campaigns for the end of Social Studies (CLASS) is leading the illegal US blockade of Cuba, left think tank working to ensure for the return of the illegally policy is on the side of everyday US occupied Guantanamo people. Originating in the trade Bay and for respect for Cuba’s union movement, CLASS has sovereignty and independence, an authentic connection to free from interference by working people and a unique foreign governments. insight into the challenges Visit our stand to join the society faces. campaign, to affiliate your We combine grassroots voices branch, to get the latest with intellectually compelling news on Cuba and CSC, to analysis to show an alternative receive information on events, way forward. Our publications, campaigns, delegations events and training cover and tours, or to buy from our issues such as employment, range of t-shirts, music, books, the financial system, the macro chocolate, coffee and other economy, public services and Cuba related gifts. housing. We recognise that these issues are intrinsically linked to inequalities in income, wealth, race, class and gender and that a fairer society Dying to Work requires structural change. Stand: 21
Our current projects address The TUC ‘Dying to Work’ issues of race and class, Campaign, which was started automation, the labour market by the GMB in the Midland & and Brexit. East Coast Region, has now protected 1 million working people with our voluntary charter.
32 Please visit our stall to find out connected to the Gas network. if your employer has signed Gas is cheaper than Electricity and if not, what you can do to to produce and is central to encourage them to join the tackling fuel poverty in the UK. growing number of public and private sector employers up Utilising the Gas Grid to deliver and down the country who greener gases like Hydrogen have made this important and Biomethane means less commitment. If your company disruption for everyone. A have signed up, then why UK gas network delivering not come and have a photo clean, green gas will also with our stall for your GMB enable sectors like transport newsletters. (freight) and industry to use this fuel to reduce their CO2 If you want to find out more emissions and kick-start the about the campaign and UK becoming a world leader the work being done to get a in the development of clean, change in the law to protect and ultra low carbon green gas terminally ill workers come technology. and speak to us or visit: www. dyingtowork.co.uk CreditUnion
GMB Credit Union Stand:32 Future of Gas Neworks Stand: 27 GMB Credit Union has delivered ten years of steady growth, The Gas Network is one of the despite the challenging UK’s most valuable assets, economic climate which has having received millions of prevailed for much of that pounds in investment, and time. Over the ten years the creating thousands of jobs. Credit Union has progressively The Gas Network can play a strengthened both its balance crucial role in reducing the UK’s sheet and governance carbon emissions while also structure and has effectively meeting customers needs. 85% met the combined challenge of the UK’s 26 million homes are of increasing member lending, 33 paying a very competitive mental health, your health and dividend on savings and your safety are under attack like growing reserves. never before.
The Credit Union now has The only defence is trade access to the GMB community unionism, and that means GMB. nationally; with over 600,000 GMB members plus their So come and meet the National families nationally we have an Health, Safety and Environment enormous opportunity and Department at the GMB much work to do in increasing National Office stand. We will awareness of GMB’s Credit have our latest range of guides Union nationally. and leaflets, and can help you with any queries, concerns or The Credit Union is committed burning issues that you need to encouraging the savings expert advice on. habit and rewarding members with market leading divided rates on savings.
Finally, please make it a priority GMB Internet Cafe to visit the Credit Union stand Stand: 40 in the exhibition hall in order to become part of the Credit Want to know what’s happening Union and find out more about back at your workplace? Need this excellent benefit. to check your email, print something, research a motion or review your speech? Come visit the GMB Internet Cafe.
GMB Health, Safety and We have several laptops Environment available that you can connect your USB flash drive to or print Stand: 3 from your smartphone\tablet\ Whether it’s a Government hell laptop wirelessly to our printer. bent on deregulation, poisoned The GMB Internet Cafe can be air choking our environment, or found in Exhibition Hall. the onslaught directed at our
34 GMB NHS DENTAL PLAN from here in Brighton, and to help celebrate our 130th Stand: 23 birthday! Do you have a NHS dentist? Get There will be an exhibition about £500 of NHS cover with the GMB the history of GMB, a chance to NHS dental plan and get money send your birthday wishes - and back each time you visit your maybe even some cake. NHS dentist, meaning no more costly treatment bills. Plus as a special offer for GMB members, you’re covered immediately as soon as you join. Visit our stand to learn more about this GMB Union Lifelong simple and straightforward GMB Learning Fund Projects member benefit or join online Stand: 13 atwww.gmbdental.co.uk Welcome to Congress, this Claims are handled directly by year we have an exhibitors a ‘Not for Profit’ insurer with a stall that reflects the first ever 135 year heritage of providing GMB National Lifelong Learning affordable healthcare. GMB Project. This Project operates NHS Dental Plan is administered with funding provided from the by Protego Group who is Union Learning Fund and part authorised and regulated by of its purpose and function is to the Financial Conduct Authority cement the offer of learning to (304363) all GMB members irrespective of where they work or live.
On display at the stall will be multiple learning offers, some GMB National Stand free at source and others that are subsidised to the lowest Stand: 1/2 negotiated price.
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GMB Retired the UK to politically campaign at all levels of government both Members Association in the UK and Europe. Stand: 33 You joined GMB to protect and The GMB Retired Members advance your interest at work, Association (RMA) continues to the same criteria apply in grow and has an integral role to retirement. If you are interested, play in GMB or about to retire, and would like to stay active and involved We work to four key objectives: in GMB, please contact your 1) To provide practical Regional Secretary or the assistance in the recruitment, appropriate RMA Co-ordinator retention and organisational objectives of GMB
2) We aim to campaign on behalf of retired GMB Members Health Campaigns to bring about dignity in Together retirement Stand: 18 3) We work in partnership with like-minded pensioner groups Health Campaigns Together is a who share our values friendly alliance between unions and community campaigners 4) We aim to campaign and who are prepared to fight for promote equal opportunities Our NHS. All of the large health in line with GMB policies and unions have affiliated to HCT, principles as have some of the smaller ones. Additionally, several non- The RMA is actively healthunions have joined us. We campaigning to further the meet every other month. interests and aspirations of retired members and their We have managed to partners so retired people initiate some enormous have the freedom to live in Demonstrations and dignity and not the fear of need. Conferences and have both We work as part of the larger a high quality Website and pensioner movement across quarterly Newspaper. Upcoming 38 Events include a major Ttansphobic (HBT) bullying/ conference on Mental Health abuse in football/sport, and and on Safety for both patients partner with other initiatives and all staff. and organisations. healthcampaignstogether.com • To promote effective LGBT+ engagement and representation in mainstream football/sport/leisure activities JUST A BALL GAME? and encourage LGBT+ involvement/participation/ Stand: 10 volunteering in the wider AIMS: sporting community from elite to grass roots. • To encourage and promote football, sport and healthy • In pursuit of these aims Just leisure activities among A Ball Game? will promote lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, equal opportunities and trans people and others encourages gender parity. (hereafter referred to as Campaigns: LGBT+ ) regardless of race, THINK BEFORE YOU CHANT! religion, sex, age, physical TIME FOR ACTION ability, or disability. OUT PROUD and KICKING • To help build at both local Project: and national levels an LGBT+ TRANS KIDS ARE ALRIGHT football & sports community, linking individuals, organisations, clubs, and associations engaged in football/sport, ensuring Labour Research effective communication. Department • To raise awareness about Stand: 20 equality, inclusion and diversity (EID) combat The GMB are affiliated to Labour all discrimination and Research Department (LRD). Homophobic Biphobic and The LRD provides news and
39 information for trade unionists LV = Liverpool Victoria which include employment Stand: 11 law, health and safety, equality, union news as well as pay and LV= Liverpool Victoria sponsors conditions information. of GMB Congress, has provided members with exclusive We produce a range of discounted rates on car publications and online insurance for many years. services, including the Labour Research magazine, Workplace Take advantage of our new Multi Report and LRD booklets - Car insurance, where GMB including the Law at work and members can insure up to 6 Health and safety law used by cars on one policy and get the reps throughout the movement. member discount on every car, GMB members also have as well as our award winning access to the GMB Pay and customer service combined conditions online database with great quality cover, at of collective agreements discounted prices. maintained by the Labour Research Department (LRD). We also offer members motorbike, caravan and classic It contains details of more than car insurance. 2,000 collective agreements, including hundreds of GMB Thousands of members have agreements with information on already benefited so why not all sectors of the economy and come and see if you could too. all regions of the UK. Visit our We look forward to meeting stand during the conference for you at the LV= stand and will free publications, online trials, be pleased to provide further your GMB pay and conditions information. You can also visit username and password and LV.com/GMB much more.
40 NICARAGUA SOLIDARITY Palestine Solidarity CAMPAIGN Campaign Stand: 29 Stand: 22
GMB supports our work with Palestine Solidarity Campaign is trade unions both in the UK and an independent and anti-racist in Nicaragua. Is your branch organisation, working for justice, or region affiliated? Visit our equality and self-determination stand to find out more and to for the Palestinian people. buy Latin American jewellery, Visit us for information about coffee and badges; children’s our campaigns, focusing on clothes; solidarity t-shirts; Israel’s war crimes and ongoing and much more. We aim to policies of ethnic cleansing, raise support in the UK for and how you can take action progressive organisations in for justice for the Palestinian Nicaragua through visits there, people. links through town twinning and trade unions, speaker Please visit tours in the UK and publications palestinecampaign.org including ‘Nicaragua Now’. facebook.com/ 86 Durham Rd, London N7 palestinesolidarityuk 7DT [email protected]. @PSCupdates uk and nscag@nicaraguasc. for updates, news and actions! org.ukwww.nicaraguasc.org. uk and www.nscag.org Twitter: NSCAG_UK FB: www.facebook. com/nicaraguasc Pattinson Brewer Proud partners of UNIONLINE
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Show Racism the Red Card Simpsons Solicitors are proud (SRtRC) is the UK’s anti-racism to be associated with the GMB educational charity and was Trade Union and to be working established in January 1996. The in association with Unionline. organisation utilises the high- We act for GMB members profile status of football and in relation to personal injury football players to help tackle claims and employment racism in society. matters providing legal services to members on a whole range The majority of the campaign’s of legal issues. output is the delivery of education to young people We are a practice employing and adults in their schools, their lawyers who have many years workplaces and at events held experience in dealing with in football stadiums. claims for trade union members and their families. Across Britain, Show Racism the Red Card delivers educational The principle of our practice is workshops to more than 50,000 that we are supportive of the young people and 6,000 adults Trade Union movement and every year. our staff are all members of the GMB Trade Union. We can SRtRC also produce educational assure members that we have resources to tackle racism the interest of not only their which are available at: individual members claim at heart, but the interest of the www.theredcard.org GMB Trade Union generally.
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43 We are also involved in assisting inform on the causes of Work the GMB in training new shop Stress. stewards in health and safety matters, as well as running We organise an annual national other training courses and have conference in November which been very pleased to attend is attended by up to 100 Health the activists conference for the & Safety Reps and we can regions we act for. provide workshops, seminars and speakers on the different Further, we have lawyers aspects of work stress for Trade who address various trade Union branches and other union conferences and have organisations a particular presence at the annual GMB North West & Irish We produce a useful handbook, Regional Womens Conference. handouts and other guidance for H&S reps to aid their work If you need any legal assistance, in supporting members and please contact Unionline on holding employers to account. 0300 333 0303 and they will ensure your matter is dealt with Come to our stall and collect and referred to ourselves, where invaluable free resources and appropriate. other information!
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44 affected by stroke get the Commissioned by London very best care and support to Regional Committee this book, rebuild their lives. written by John Callow, has the full support and participation of Rebuilding lives after stroke Marys family and friends across is a team effort. It takes the the trade union movement and determination of stroke beyond. survivors and carers, the generosity of supporters Buy a copy and read about and the dedication of the Mary’s life, struggles and healthcare and research achievements. communities to get there. We would like to thank all who A stroke is a brain attack. It donated to fund the production happens when the blood supply of this book. to part of your brain is cut off. A stroke can happen to anyone Come and buy/ order high but there are some things that quality ethically produced increase your risk of a stroke. It’s t-shirts and other clothing from important to know what the risk ethical sources for your branch factors are and do what you or campaign. All profits are can to reduce your risk. ploughed back into our own trade union company, Ethical To find out more, come and Threads visit us at our stand during the conference. To support GMB Sisters
The most outstanding woman trade unionist of Menstruation to Menopause her generation OUR MARY Mary is no ordinary woman. She may have Paul Kenny, General Secretary started life in an ordinary family, working in an of the GMB, 2005-2015 ordinary workplace, and she may have had OUR an ordinary job, but our Mary has done Mary paved the way so many extraordinary things for so many women in Penny Robinson, President GMB London Region
the union movement Jeremy Corbyn THE LIFE OF MARY TURNER 1938-2017 Proud, fiery and determined when standing up to exploitative employers, the First Lady of MARY the privileged and the powerful; yet the labour movement THE LIFE OF MARY TURNER practical, compassionate and nurturing towards her members, the disadvantaged, Kevin Maguire, Daily Mirror OUR MARY 1938-2017 and the victims of injustice: Mary Turner (1938-2017) provided the lay leadership Mary Turner touched so many lives and changed them for the better. of the GMB union for twenty years. The The Brent dinner lady who fed the jobless marchers in the 1980s and PRESIDENT OF THE GMB union coursed through every fibre and campaign, please buy a hand consistently campaigned for the rights of all children to healthy, free sinew of her being. LABOUR MOVEMENT CAMPAIGNER From the People’s Marches for Jobs in 1981 and 1983, through school meals, rose to become president of the GMB and chair of the the miners’ strike, to more recent struggles against cutbacks in Labour Party. Yet she never forgot her roots and was, first and foremost, AND TRADE UNION ACTIVIST local government, the depredations of multinational corporations, the champion of the underdog, giving hope to the powerless and a and the scourge of austerity, there was no progressive cause that she did not champion, and no voice to those who otherwise might have been silenced and forgotten. call for help she did not answer. No one in the British labour movement possessed a quicker wit, or a surer political eye. She was the heart and soul of the GMB union, and epitomised Without her, it is hard to see how the GMB could have all that was best in the British labour movement. survived as an independent union – let alone have experienced an unprecedented period of growth in membership from 2005 to 2015, when all the odds appeared stacked against it. She JOHN CALLOW This book is her story and the record of a remarkable life. also campaigned consistently for school meals, for the rights of part-time workers, and on behalf of those struggling with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. She served on the GMB’s executive council from 1983 to 2017; was vice president 1993-97; and president from 1997 to 2017. She sat on the ruling body of the Labour Party from 1995 to 2017; and was elected as the party’s vice chair in 2002 and John Callow is an author and trade unionist chair in 2003. She was awarded the MBE in 2010 and the CBE who has worked for both Amicus and the ISBN 978-1-912064-23-6 in 2017 for her services to politics and trade unionism. GMB. He has written the official histories Yet throughout she remained ‘Our Mary’: purposeful, warm fan which is useful if you are of both trade unions, as well as editing new Barcode just an example. and caring, an activist through-and-through, whose first thought editions of Will Thorne’s autobiography and was always for the happiness, security and betterment of her Keir Hardie’s From Serfdom to Socialism. JOHN CALLOW members and all those whom she served. feeling hot/ flushed. All profits THE MARY TURNER from the sale of these go to provide sanitary products for MEMORIAL STAND homeless and refugee women Stand: 17 and trans men. Visit the London Region stand.
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49 We want to hear from you this joined trade unions to fight congress! Visit our stand in the back on poverty pay, precarious Exhibition Hall or come to our contracts and lack of respect. fringe event on Tuesday (12.45 – Room 1C, Ground Floor) to learn We stand in solidarity with how Tory assaults on the civil workers facing intimidation for justice system will impact our organising into trade unions members. and in partnership with unions and inspirational groups in rural communities, sweatshops or conflict zones around the world. We believe the best way to tackle War on Want poverty is to support those organisations that are best Stand: 25 placed to find their own solutions Poverty is not an accident – for social change. poverty is political. War on Want tackles the root causes of global poverty, and challenges those institutions that perpetuate that poverty. WASPI Stand: 19 We campaign against harmful trade deals negotiated in THE AIM OF THE WASPI CAMPAIGN secret and demand that ISDS IS: or ‘corporate courts’ have no place in new or replacement TO ACHIEVE FAIR TRANSITIONAL trade deals. STATE PENSION ARRANGEMENTS FOR ALL WOMEN BORN IN THE War on Want believes all 1950s AFFECTED BY THE CHANGES workers should have their basic TO THE STATE PENSION LAW employment rights respected, (1995/2011 ACTS). yet the use of precarious contracts has eroded those This translates into a ‘bridging’ rights. We support workers pension to provide an income at McDonald’s, TGI Fridays until women reach their new and Wetherspoons who have State Pension Age - not means- tested - and compensation
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