Our members at Dales Engineering received a 2.8% pay offer from management against the backdrop of a cost of living crisis with inflation at a 30 year high. They stood together, campaigned to #MakeWorkBetter, and won a 6% increase on the basic rate of pay.https://www.energyvoice.com/oilandgas/north-sea/382854/significant-win-strikes-averted-as-pay-deal-reached-for-peterheads-dales-engineering/

GMB Scotland is hiring! We're looking to recruit an Administrative & Office Support Assistant, based in GMB Scotland's head office in Glasgow. Looking for something new? We want to hear from you! 👇 https://www.gmb.org.uk/job/administrative-office-support-assistant-gmb-scotland-0

The spiralling cost-of-living crisis means the lowest paid in local government face in-work poverty. It would be shameful if home carers, bin collectors and school support staff - workers that politicians used to applaud - had their pay cut in real terms. https://www.sundaypost.com/news/scottish-news/unions-call-for-pay-deal-to-address-rising-inflation-and-energy-prices/

These projects could generate tens of thousands of green manufacturing jobs, but will they be built in Scotland or the rest of the world? After a decade of broken promises and political failure, that’s the only question that really matters to our members. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/nicola-sturgeon-welcomes-historic-offshore-25967213

Hunterston B has been a workhorse for our energy mix, keeping the lights on and delivering opportunity and prosperity. The station and workforce should be celebrated, but it's shutdown is also a lament over the Scottish Government’s attitude to nuclear. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-59894688

SAS needs serious investment so it can operate safely for patients and staff. We need government and management to work with our members properly to address the service’s challenges, rather than spinning plates in the hope of keeping it on life support. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/five-year-high-scots-paramedics-25845822

Keep safe and well, get your vaccine booster, but remember our key workers who will be on the frontline of another huge national effort. GMB believes key workers must be paid properly. It’s the least they deserve for everything they are doing. Read more 👇 https://www.gmb.org.uk/news/gmb-encourages-everyone-get-booster-%E2%80%93-workers-need-pay-boost-too

🚨 Tuesday strike by AMEY staff in Glasgow secondary schools suspended after new pay offer 🚨 Proposed changes to pay and conditions comparable to COSLA offer for directly employed council staff, and workplace ballot now underway. Latest coverage 👇 https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/19765120.gmb-scotland-glasgow-school-strike-cancelled-tuesday/

GMB Organiser John Slaven 🗣 “AMEY staff are no longer the forgotten workers of Glasgow’s education system. You are serving notice on chronic low pay and exploitation. You are fighting for pay justice.”

It’s time to end two-tier pay for school support staff in Glasgow’s schools. The message to AMEY is loud and clear: “Pay up for key workers.” The message to Glasgow City Council is simple: “Stand with staff, not against them.”

Glasgow’s lowest paid workers are mired in the council’s ongoing pay discrimination and a chronic lack of value for the essential services they deliver. It’s time to confront this. Let’s make work better and make Glasgow better. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-59380471

Millbrae shows why we need to tackle the understaffing crises in social care and the NHS, and why we need a NCS that makes work better for staff: £15 an hour, stronger rights, and improved regulation. https://news.stv.tv/west-central/care-home-residents-injected-with-salt-water-instead-of-covid-vaccine?top

All the difficult questions over energy remain the First Minister’s to answer. What’s the plan for a jobs transition for workers, tackling fuel poverty against a cost-of-living crisis, and for security of supply when the wind doesn’t blow? (£) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nicola-sturgeons-no-to-cambo-inspires-oil-belt-rebellion-8htvdb7mx

GMB cleaners and janitors in Glasgow schools were Covid heroes, the last out and the first back in to ensure kids could get back to school following lockdown. They deserve a proper pay rise from their employer @Ameyplc, not a real terms cut. https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/19715092.strikes-glasgow-schools-imminent-janitors-cleaners-reject-council-pay-offer/