WO toolkit 2012 complete.pdf - GMB
WO toolkit 2012 complete.pdf - GMB
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SECTION 3.2<br />
COLLECTIVE GRIEVANCES<br />
Part of your role is to take up problems at work that groups of your members,or possibly the entire<br />
membership have that are not connected with the collective bargaining process.Such problems should<br />
be dealt with through the same grievance procedure that you would use in individual cases.You should<br />
tackle them in the same methodical way that you would when preparing an individual case and always<br />
follow every step of the procedure.<br />
MAKE YOUR COMPLAINT YOUR MANAGEMENT’S PROBLEM<br />
Submit a collective grievance letter in the same way as for an individual member and demand a<br />
meeting.Remember a collective grievance is the best way to make sure your complaint becomes your<br />
employers problem and not just a <strong>GMB</strong> members’problem.<br />
Note:<br />
Make sure that you involve as many people as possible in solving a problem and use your workplace<br />
newsletter to tell everyone in the workplace that you have taken the issue up.In this way,when you<br />
get a problem solved everyone knows that it was pressure from <strong>GMB</strong> that got things done.<br />
FAILURE TO AGREE<br />
Make it clear to management if you are not satisfied with their response.Clearly register a failure to<br />
agree and tell management that you intend to invoke the next stage of the procedure.Let your <strong>GMB</strong><br />
officer know about this failure to agree and seek advice on how to record this formally with your<br />
employer.<br />
STATUS QUO<br />
Best practice,which you should try to obtain,is known as‘status quo’.This is important in collective<br />
grievances.<br />
Status quo means that while the issue is a matter of dispute the situation remains as it was before the<br />
problem arose.It is covered by clause three of the general principles of the model <strong>GMB</strong> Recognition and<br />
Procedure agreement.If you don’t have the‘status quo’in your agreement contact your Branch<br />
Secretary or <strong>GMB</strong> Officer.