GMB announces pub strike roadshows

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08/02/2010

12:24:11

The GMB has announced a series of 16 dates for its roadshows to gain support for a national ballot on industrial action by tied pub tenants.
As a first step, the GMB is to ballot its members over whether they are for or against industrial action and what form that should take.
The union believes that any member taking part in industrial action has legal immunity for 12 weeks under trade union legislation, as long as a majority vote in favour of the action.
The first step in any such industrial action could be a switch-off of all Brulines beer flow monitoring equipment. "The recent U-turn on the OFT investigation and the appointment of John Healy as Minister for Pubs gives scope for parallelpolitical action to help secure cuts in wholesale prices from the pubcos," said GMB national secretary Paul Maloney.
A spokesman for the Pub Revolution group, which first advocated industrial action, said: "Parliament has given tied tenants legal immunity in trades disputes when we are members of

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24 replies - Last reply by Kevin O'connor, 09/02/2010 00:07:44

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Inez Ward

08/02/2010

23:55:24

RE: GMB announces pub strike roadshows

Hi sweetie, far too frazzled and far too tired to go into this now. Like it or not, deal with it or not, some pubcos are detrimentally affecting a whole lot of this trade and there is no justification whatsoever for a part of our history, heritage and culture to be affected so detrimentally for the benefit of some muppets selfish and greedy reasons!

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Kevin O'connor

09/02/2010

00:04:02

RE: GMB announces pub strike roadshows

To drag our brave armed forces into this arguement is so low and depicable. You disgust me.

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Paul Salvadori

09/02/2010

00:07:28

RE: GMB announces pub strike roadshows

Kevin you are pathetic.

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Kevin O'connor

09/02/2010

00:07:44

RE: GMB announces pub strike roadshows

Actually my reply was aimed at Comrade Salvadori. And as for knowing so much as 99% of the posts on here about Pubcos it would be difficult not to. Or are you saying that all those posts were just for the mutual sufferers society and not meant to educate?

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