GMB Political Fund
GMB recently balloted all members with regards to the continuation
of the political fund. The result was a fantastic
yes.
RESULT
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Number voting YES
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98,423 (88.4% of valid
vote)
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Number voting NO
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12,898 (11.6% of valid
vote)
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TOTAL 111,321 (100% of valid
vote)
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We would like to thank all
those members who took part in the ballot. We look forward to
continuing our campaigns to influence politics and the political
decision making process.
Background
GMB has a political fund
which is used to finance political campaigns on behalf of GMB
members. It is important that trade union members have a voice and
are able to lobby governments of all political parties.
GMB not only represents
members who work in the public sector, but all our members use
public services such as the education, NHS and local authority
services.
The political fund has been
used to fund campaigns to maintain adequate public services for all
and to ensure that this is not at the expense of the employees
providing the services. The GMB is currently concerned over the
following issues:
• Pensions
• Employment rights
• Manufacturing
• Foundation Hospitals
• The rise of the BNP and other far right influences in local
politics
Click here to download
5 Reasons to Vote in PDF format.
We believe that it is
important that GMB members have a voice putting both the case of
the employees and the users of public services to government at
national, regional and local level. Like many other trade unions we
use our political fund for these purposes.
To enable GMB to maintain a
political fund the Government insists that we ballot all our
members every 10 years to ensure that they wish us to have a
political fund. GMB members have seen the importance of the
political fund to them and have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a
political fund.