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GMB's best ballot response

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Tuesday November 06, 2007 13:32

by solidarity seeker

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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.

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Comments (15 of 15)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	press office	press office	Tue Nov 06, 2007 16:05
2	GMB Stop avoiding the questions	Jenny	Wed Nov 07, 2007 13:41
3	good points Jenny	solidarity seeker	Wed Nov 07, 2007 14:46
4	press.office	press.office@gmb.org.uk	Wed Nov 07, 2007 20:26
5	press.office	press.office@gmb.org.uk	Wed Nov 07, 2007 20:26
6	What about the facts?	K	Wed Nov 07, 2007 21:28
7	GMB playing with figures	solidarity seeker	Wed Nov 07, 2007 22:27
8	Whos been telling Porkies?	Alright Folks	Wed Nov 07, 2007 23:02
9	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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