WO toolkit 2012 complete.pdf - GMB

CONTENTS
1. Your role
1.1 Training for GMB workplace
organisers
1.2 What does a GMB workplace
organiser do?
1.3 Your rights as a GMB workplace
organiser
2. Organising your workplace
2.1 GMB@WORK organising policy
2.2 Organising checklist
2.3 Keeping members up to date:
Workplace newsletters
2.4 Get to know your workplace:
workplace mapping.
2.5 Contacting new starters:
Attending induction meetings.
2.6 Contacting leavers: Retention
2.7 Campaigning
2.8 Signing people up
2.9 Getting help:
Building your workplace network
2.10 Workplace organising planner
3. Representing members collectively
3.1 Collective bargaining
3.2 Collective grievances
4. Representing individual members
4.1 Advising members: Rights at work
4.2 The law on representing members
4.3 Dealing with members’disciplinaries
4.4 Dealing with members’grievances
4.5 Appeals
5. Most asked questions
6. About GMB
7. Health and safety
7.1 Does your job make you sick?
GMB Health and Safety policy
7.2 Health and Safety Law–the Role of Safety
Representatives
7.3 Safety inspection checklist
8. Pensions information
NOTE:
Sections 9 to 16 are for you to collect
and keep your own local information and
have been deliberately left empty.
9. Health and Safety Bulletins
10. Workplace newsletters
11 Notes of meetings with
management
12. Notes of grievance/disciplinary
hearings
13. Branch notices and minutes
14. Organising and campaigning
material
15. GMB@WORK training materials
16. GMB@WORK Noticeboard Toolkit–
available from your GMB Officer
17. Equality through inclusion
17.1 What is equality through inclusion?
17.2 Jargon buster
17.3 Equality legislation: At a glance