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GMB's best ballot response

category national | worker & community struggles and protests | opinion/analysis author Tuesday November 06, 2007 13:32author by solidarity seeker Report this post to the editors

GMB have had the best response ever to their ballot on the classroom assistants dispute. This may seem to be a possitive thing. However some important questions need to be answered and if anyone from the GMB read this I would love to hear their replies.
1) How many classroom assistants do you represent?
2) Why were ballot papers sent to cleaners, and caretakers?

Could anyone from GMB give us a figure on the number of CA's in GMB. And also answer why ballot papers were sent and presumably filled in by groups of workers who had no right to do so. Now far be it for me to be cynical, but if I was cynical I might get the impression that GMB were doing their best to inflate the number of ballot papers sent out and returned so they could pretend to me a little bit more important than they really are.
It's also a shame that the GMB didn't feel the need to ballot their members on the below inflation pay offer to all NJC affected workers.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   press office     press office    Tue Nov 06, 2007 16:05 
   GMB Stop avoiding the questions     Jenny    Wed Nov 07, 2007 13:41 
   good points Jenny     solidarity seeker    Wed Nov 07, 2007 14:46 
   press.office     press.office@gmb.org.uk    Wed Nov 07, 2007 20:26 
   press.office     press.office@gmb.org.uk    Wed Nov 07, 2007 20:26 
   What about the facts?     K    Wed Nov 07, 2007 21:28 
   GMB playing with figures     solidarity seeker    Wed Nov 07, 2007 22:27 
   Whos been telling Porkies?     Alright Folks    Wed Nov 07, 2007 23:02 
   what if??     solidarity seeker    Thu Nov 08, 2007 09:06 
 10   Northern Ireland People Suspect Asellout     Erin go Bragh    Thu Nov 08, 2007 09:46 
 11   Northern Ireland Public Suspect Asellout     Erin go Bragh    Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:05 
 12   GMB CA's     searcher    Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:22 
 13   GMB difficulties     Marty McK    Fri Nov 09, 2007 22:59 
 14   Union Members and the Phantoms     N I People Suspect Asellout    Sat Nov 10, 2007 00:33 
 15   Fighting unions?     The Man In The Duffelcoat    Wed Dec 05, 2007 16:04 


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