New: GMB Scotland submit strike notice to Diageo across their Scottish operations - Scottish strike 'the consequence of insatiable corporate greed’. https://tinyurl.com/y4xe8jl3 A huge chunk of Diageo’s credibility and success is built on the back of Scotland and the working class and rural communities that distil, mature, store and bottle their lucrative range of whiskies and white spirits. It begs the question: Why has the company spent months low-balling unions with pay offers that fail to tackle the cost of living? If any business can afford to make work pay for its employees it is Diageo.

ISS UK have tabled an offer to GMB of a payment plan to address the detriment caused by the implementation of their new payroll system. We believe the offer merits full consultation with our Hairmyres members, and have agreed to suspend the strike action due to begin on Monday.

"Our union has been blunt about the failure of our politics at all levels but the suspension of Parliament by an unelected Prime Minister and right-wing Tory clique is a dangerous precedent". GMB Scotland statement on Brexit and the suspension of Parliament. https://www.gmbscotland.org.uk/brexit-and-the-suspension-of-uk-parliament.html

Hundreds of bullying victims in NHS Highland had their suffering prolonged for a year after concerns were raised. “The non-executive directors appear to be taking a steer from executive directors. Their job is to hold them to account, not roll over. “Serious questions must be asked about how the board of directors operates – this is poor governance, pure and simple.”

‪GMB Scotland is hiring! 📝 ‬ ‪We’re looking to recruit a full time Support Worker based at our head office in Glasgow, working with members to develop trade union campaigns and helping to build GMB Scotland.‬ ‪For more information and an application pack, email scotland@gmb.org.uk‬

Glasgow GMB and Living Rent Glasgow brought workers and residents together at the weekend to expose the crisis in Glasgow's back courts and to call for greater investment in the cleansing service to make our back courts safe. Glasgow City Council, bring back the closebusters!

There's no excuse for not paying your staff. Next week, GMB members employed by ISS at Hairmyres Hospital will strike over £72,000 of unpaid wages. Thanks to everyone who backed our members at the weekend and sent a message to ISS - pay what you owe!

A big thank you to the members, reps and activists who turned out at the weekend for Pride Glasgow, marking 50 years since the Stonewall riots. Pride is a protest, and when our members are on the receiving end of discrimination because of who they are or who they love, our union will always stand firm alongside them. GMB fights on for LGBT+ rights at work.

Nationalisation secures the immediate future of the yard and that is a very welcome development, particularly after all the recent uncertainty. Our members were caught in the middle of a situation that had nothing to do with them and their relief will be palpable. It is five years since the yard went bust and the Scottish Government has prevented that from happening again. We must be clear that nationalisation will not be a quick-fix and there will be challenges. Our immediate priority is to secure the re-employment of the workers released last weekend because their skills are essential and then we will insist the government works with us to develop a proper industrial plan for the yard because lessons must be learned. We can now look to the future and everyone should do so with a sense of purpose. With vision and competency we can get on with building the ships Scotland needs and together we can grow jobs and prosperity on the lower Clyde.

Thanks to the hard work and organising efforts of our Scottish Equality Forum, GMB Scotland is proud to be supporting this weekend's Pride Glasgow Festival, marking 50 years since the Stonewall riots. The union will have a presence on the march on Saturday, leading the "orange" block. The march assembles at Clyde Place, and members are encouraged to get along before 11am to join the GMB Scotland group.

We have every confidence that the Scottish Government will do the right thing and we look forward to working with them as the new owners of Ferguson Marine. This is a national asset and we believe public ownership is the right way to go.

‪How can it be that a company with a healthy order book was allowed to carry on to a point where there was no money left for wages or to honour voluntary severance packages? ‬ ‪We’re calling for an inquiry into the Havelock scandal.

“I am disgusted. I have worked for this company for over 10 years and yet the management seem to think they can treat me like dirt". Asda need to listen to their workers and stop the "take it or leave it" tactics to force them onto this contract.

The anger of workers at today’s announcement from Havelock is entirely justified. There are serious questions to be answered as to how the company was allowed to get to this point without the workforce being warned or consulted. The fact that redundancies were pre-briefed as an “exclusive” to a national newspaper before the workforce were informed is a disgrace and a grave error by the administrator, PriceWaterhouseCooper. The plain fact is that this factory does not need to close. There is a quality product here for a buyer willing to make this business work. The consequences if a suitable buyer cannot be found will be simply dire for Fife, for what remains of Scottish manufacturing and worst of all for the 250 people employed here, some of whom will have worked here for a lifetime, all of whom are now faced with being left with nothing. GMB Scotland will do everything in our power to support and assist our members at this time.

Less than 4% of the manufacturing work on the Beatrice Project was carried out here in Scotland. Yesterday may have been a great day for the Danish & Far East financiers of the project, and for the state backed Belgian & Dutch contractors in the manufacturing supply chain, but the Scottish renewables lobby and the politicians advocating a "green jobs revolution" ought to have been cringing, not celebrating. How can it be that a country which possesses a quarter of the continent’s offshore wind resource is left fighting for scraps of work and prosperity from its own market? This is what industrial and political failure looks like. It's a scandal and it shows no signs of changing. Amid the fanfare surrounding the opening of the Beatrice wind farm, spare a thought for the communities of Burntisland and Methil and the one thousand displaced workers whose yards were broken by this project.

GMB Scotland is hiring! We're recruiting for a full time Support Worker based in our Aberdeen office, working alongside our members to help develop trade union campaigns and build our union. For an application pack contact Scotland@gmb.org.uk

GMB will defend its members' interests. This is health and safety, and we wouldn’t expect NHS Grampian’s procurement service to make such errors and cause such concerns for our members.

‪Workers in Scotland are being asked to content themselves with crumbs from our own table.‬ ‪The renewables lobby and every politician that has promised a green jobs revolution must be cringing.‬

Today the temperatures in Glasgow are set to soar. Great for after work BBQs, not so great for those out working. 🔥 Make sure you protect yourself by staying hydrated, staying cool and taking breaks. Your rights- a quick guide: 1. Demand access to cold drinks from your employer if they aren’t available 2. Employers should be flexible with uniforms. Take off layers if you are too hot 🥵 3. Take breaks. Your employers must allow you take extra breaks in the cool/ shade if you are too hot Read more about your rights- http://bit.ly/2X495JM

If anyone can afford to reward their employees with a wage rise that beats the rising cost of living, it's Diageo. If they think they can offer our members pay cuts one day and boast of £4 billion+ profits the next, they need to get real.