Industrial Action

Review of the Week

Better Government leadership needed

01-Dec-2023 By Ed Bedington

The MA's Ed Bedington caught up with Fuller's CEO Simon Emeny to get his take on the week's events, from the Covid Inquiry to the death of a footballing icon.

Further strike action expected to cause Christmas trade disruption

16-Nov-2023 By Ed Bedington

The hospitality sector is braced for further Christmas disruption after train drivers announced plans to stage a fresh round of strikes in early December.

Review of the Week

'There are so many businesses out there struggling'

08-Sep-2023 By Ed Bedington

The MA's Ed Bedington met up with Greene King boss Nick Mackenzie to get his take on the week's news, from the Ofgem consultation to the Rugby World Cup

Another Christmas lost?

25-Nov-2022 By Ed Bedington

The Morning Advertiser's Ed Bedington catches up with hospitality expert Paul Pavli to get his take on the week's news, dominated by the rail union's decision to announce fresh strikes.

40% of beer deliveries at risk as workers balloted on strike action

23-Jul-2021 By Emily Hawkins

Beer delivery drivers and warehouse staff are to decide whether or not to strike over pay and Covid measures.

Logistics workers strike action could threaten beer deliveries

14-Aug-2013 By John Harrington

Nearly 1,000 workers at transport and logistics company Kuehne + Nagel Drinks Logistics (KNDL) are being balloted this week for industrial action over claimed breaches in working agreements.

GMB to raise industrial action at meetings

09-Sep-2010 By Ewan Turney

Controversial trade union the GMB is to host three meetings to discuss the prospect of industrial action in a bid to help tied tenants secure lower...

GMB: we are acting lawfully on pubcos

29-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney

The GMB says it has "sufficient reason" to believe that tied tenants do have legal immunity to take industrial action against pubcos. In a letter to...

GMB: pub industrial action is last resort

16-Mar-2010 By Lesley Foottit

It will only be fair to use industrial action as a "last resort", the GMB told tied tenant members and MPs at a Westminster meeting. General...

No date set for GMB pub strike ballot

10-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney

No date has yet been set for the GMB's ballot on industrial action by tied pub tenants as it prepares for its Westminster rally next week.

GMB: playing chicken with pubcos

04-Mar-2010 By The PMA Team

Our local GMB meeting was full of vehemence, but failed to reassure tenants on the legality of any future industrial action, says The PMA Team.

GMB ramps up anti-pubco activity

26-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna

The GMB will meet with pubs minister John Healey next week — as it begins to ramp up activity in the run up to its ballot on industrial action against pubcos. The union also confirmed it plans a protest outside Brulines headquarters this month.

Video: GMB pub strike action could come in April

18-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna

Industrial action against pubcos could kick off as early as April, says the GMB, who will also be "quite happy" to go to court with the pubcos.

Pubco: GMB is threatening pub livelihoods

09-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney

Tied licensees who take part in industrial action are putting their businesses and homes at risk, one pubco has warned. The pubco hit out after trade union the GMB announced a series of 16 national roadshows to ballot on industrial action.

GMB announces pub strike roadshows

08-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney

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...

GMB to hold pub strike roadshows

11-Jan-2010 By Gemma McKenna

The GMB plans at least 14 roadshows across the country to inform tied licensees of industrial action before balloting starts in mid-February....

Punch warns licensees to "think carefully" before taking industrial action

04-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ

Punch Taverns has warned its lessees to "think carefully" before signing up to the GMB's call for tied tenants to take industrial action against...

GMB to ballot "thousands" of pubs on industrial action

29-Dec-2009 By Hamish Champ

The GMB union said today it hopes to be in a position to ballot up to 25,000 tied pubs on whether to take industrial action against pubco landlords...

Trade bodies warn licensees over industrial action

03-Dec-2009 By Matt Eley Matt

The GMB union is encouraging licensees to take industrial action against the pubcos before Christmas - but trade leaders have warned publicans to...

'Union writes to 37,000 licensees in "strike" ballot'

29-Nov-2009

"Trade union the GMB is writing to 37,000 publicans urging them to join it and vote in a ballot over industrial action it says will be a 'strike' at...