GMB Scotland Secretary Gary Smith: “Delighted to meet @Ianblackford_MP and @ChrisStephens to discuss Contracts for Difference and the lack of jobs in Scottish Renewables amongst other issues. Good productive discussion.”

GMB Scotland is hiring! We're looking to recruit a new Support Worker for our Glasgow office - working with our Organisers to develop campaigns and build our union. Job ad and how to apply here 👇 https://www.gmbscotland.org.uk/assets/media/Advert-SupportWorkerGlasgow.pdf

Our members have consistently warned about Glasgow's waste crisis and now residents are doing the same. This is a sad picture of what austerity will do to a city. We need substantial investment to boost recruitment & resources so we can clean up Glasgow. https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18169529.glasgow-residents-plea-council-food-waste-vermin-nightmare/

Today @ScottishPower's Keith Anderson told #BBCGMS about the just transition and a "phenomenal opportunity staring Scotland in the face". He's ten years too late. The story of @ScotRenew is one of missed opportunities & ultimately one of industrial & political failure.

We've issued a joint statement with @UniteScotland following today's offshore wind summit. "We welcome these long overdue measures announced today by @scotgov in taking a harder line with the industry but this must be the start of change and not the end" https://tinyurl.com/vx2pd8v

Today we celebrate #EleanorMarxDay, paying tribute to socialist, feminist, trade unionist & internationalist Eleanor Marx, who co-founded our union in 1889. Shona Thomson, winner of the Eleanor Marx award at #GMB19, cut the cake with our Education Officer Sandie Rowlands.

This morning, our union meets with UK and Scottish Ministers as well as renewables industry majors for an offshore wind supply chain summit in Edinburgh. Our message to all parties will be blunt: This is a scandal and it has to stop. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18163245.ministerial-summit-told-end-scandal-scots-green-jobs-going-abroad/

We need a judicial review over @GlasgowCC's decision to leave over 100 charities in some of our most deprived communities high and dry. Workers are set to lose jobs, and some of the city's most vulnerable people will lose vital support. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18157600.charities-risk-glasgow-city-council-comes-fire-unfair-new-funding-scheme/

Glasgow's worsening waste crisis, pit-stop social care, potholed roads and crumbling infrastructure command the attention of all levels of government. These are the challenges that will be facing the city long after the #COP26 circus has left. ICYMI: https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18162317.gmb-union-calls-glasgow-call-off-major-cop26-climate-change-summit/

Our priorities are all wrong. The best thing government could do for Glasgow is to ditch hosting #COP26, and instead invest the hundreds of millions of pounds that will be spent on policing the event on dealing with the state of the city. https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18162317.gmb-union-calls-glasgow-call-off-major-cop26-climate-change-summit/