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 On Friday the 28th February 2025 Neil and Abi held another successful recruitment day at ASDA in Kettering, where we talked to lots of members and handed out merchandise. This recruitment event was a quiz on WhatsApp with 10 questions relating to GMB Union. This was a big success and members have been asking when they will do the next one.
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 The next meeting of the GMB Northants Community Branch is on Thursday the 27th February 2025 at 7pm on Zoom. The Zoom meeting link will be on our WhatsApp Group, the monthly email newsletter and available on request from our Branch Secretary.
 Can I take this opportunity to wish our members, their family and friends a very happy New Year. Reflecting on the passing year 2024, for me personally, it has been one of active work in the field of representing and advising members and in preparing for the General Election in July 2024. The result was a crushing defeat of the Conservative party and the return of the first Labour Government in 14 years, leaving the political landscape very different to what it was in January 2024.
 GMB Workplace Representative Neil held another recruitment day at ASDA Kettering on the 13/12/24 he held a Christmas recruitment day event in the ASDA canteen, where he had cakes and sweets available.
 GMB Workplace representative Neil held a Halloween themed recruitment day at Asda in Kettering on the 31st October 2024.
This included a "count the sweets in a jar" game for GMB members, and the winner received a Halloween hamper, second prize was the sweets in the jar.  On Monday 26th August our GMB Workplace representative Neil, held another recruitment day at Asda in Kettering in the canteen
 GMB Union had a demo at Asda Kettering on Monday 15th July 2024 in the morning. The demonstration was for Equal Pay and also the amount of hours that have been reduced in Asda Stores since the Issa Brothers and TDR Capital took over, which for Kettering is 11% of the stores employees have disappeared through cuts in hours.
The Equal Pay back pay owed in the Kettering Store is £3.8 Million in owed wages.  On the 3rd of July Neil Gardiner GMB Representative at ASDA in Kettering held another recruitment day with the theme being a combination of a picnic and bingo event.
Through the ASDA Kettering WhatsApp group the members decided they would like an Amazon gift card as the prize, So Neil did £1 a ball each. Also on the day Neil bought loads of cakes, fizzy drinks, and biscuits to go with the picnic theme.  Alfred and Neil organised another recruitment day on the 5/4/24 at Asda in Kettering. This time they made an advent calendar, and bought 10 Easter eggs and hid the winning numbers in envelopes on the advent calendar.
 On the 15th of February, Lorraine and Neil, GMB Workplace Reps, did another recruitment day at Asda Kettering where they managed to get more members to join the GMB Union.
The event was called 'Valentines Squares' because Neil made up a grid chart of 50 squares and 3 prizes were hidden within them. One was a chocolate hamper, one a £15 Odeon cinema gift card, and lastly a meal gift card. |
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