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...Andy Prendergast, GMB’s national secretary, said: “There is sometimes this Silicon Valley view. If you’re stuck on a computer screen [you can] go and play football . . ....
...Ireland’s biggest factories just four years after Spirit bought it from Bombardier had sparked “very real nervousness” about its more than 3,500 jobs, according to Alan Perry, a senior organiser at the GMB...
...The company has experienced unionisation drives in other countries, including at an Apple store in Glasgow, where some workers this month opted to join the GMB Union....
...Khosrowshahi also met the London mayor Sadiq Khan for the first time, in an encounter brokered by the GMB union....
...Mick Rix, national officer from the GMB trade union, said the ruling provided “clarity” in determining private hire drivers were workers....
...James Farrar and Yaseen Aslam of the App Drivers & Couriers Union said the GMB deal was a “step in the right direction”....
...Mick Rix, a national officer at the GMB union, said it had already told Bolt — which maintains its drivers are self-employed, and has recently announced a policy of allowing London drivers to set their own...
...This driver supply crisis was caused by a “perfect storm”, said Steve Garelick, a regional organiser at union GMB, who struck a deal with Uber in May to represent drivers....
...Mick Rix, GMB national officer, called the ruling a “historic win”....
...Mick Rix, national officer at the GMB union, said Amazon’s network of delivery partners, the logistics group DHL and DPD’s franchise model were among the most vulnerable to claims....
...Leigh Day is the law firm acting in the case on behalf of drivers, who are represented by the GMB union....
...The GMB union gave a cautious welcome to the takeover by Spirit....
...“It’s perhaps time for them to look elsewhere to work,” said the GMB. But the IWGB demanded a “mitigation plan . . . to protect Uber drivers”....
...Michael Mulholland of the GMB trade union called for reassurances from the company....
...But, no, the decision was actually a victory for the unions . . . reckoned trade union GMB. “GMB victory as courts put Uber on probation” it proclaimed last night....
...Mick Rix, national officer for the GMB union, said it had “tried to warn KFC” the decision to move from Bidvest to DHL “would have consequences....
...The sex discrimination case has been brought by the GMB union on behalf of a 44- year-old woman who has not been named by her lawyers. She claims she no longer feels safe driving for Uber at night....
...The GMB union has won permission to submit evidence in the appeal hearing about the impact on safety of the long hours that some Uber drivers work....
...The GMB union, which represents professional drivers and has been fighting against Uber, hailed Transport for London’s decision as a “historic victory for workers’ rights and passenger safety.”...
...The Addison Lee case, which was heard by the London Central Employment Tribunal in July, was brought by a group of drivers supported by the GMB trade union....
...This case has been brought by the GMB union on behalf of a 44- year-old woman who claims she no longer feels safe driving for Uber at night....
...Maria Ludkin, legal director of GMB, the driver’s union, said the decision was a historic victory for the union, which has been fighting Uber’s treatment of its drivers in court....
...This case has been brought by the GMB union on behalf of a 44- year-old woman who has not been named by her lawyers. She claims she no longer feels safe driving for Uber at night....
...This week, the GMB union, together with law firm Leigh Day, will begin a similar case against the private hire cab company Addison Lee....
...An example of an effective intervention was the GMB union’s recent legal campaign on behalf of some Uber drivers in the UK....
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