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If you are a tenant of Punch, Enterprise or another major pub operating company, this will be of interest to you. GMB is one of the largest trade unions
in the UK with over 610,000 members in all sectors of the economy. The union’s role is to improve working conditions for members through
campaigning and negotiation.
Some GMB members are pub tenants with the major pub operating companies. They have sought the assistance of the union to
secure a better deal from their landlords: lower rents and keener wholesale prices. GMB has concluded that the best way of
helping is to highlight the anticompetitive actions of some pub companies to the government and establish a system of negotiations
across the industry that will make sure each tenant can make a decent living. Only pub tenants can achieve
this, working together through a trade union. Only you can protect your job and improve your earnings so get involved in our campaign join
GMB today.
Pub tenants joining GMB would not be breaking new ground. Many thousands of self employed
people in the hospitality and entertainment industries are already active trade union members. For decades
GMB has been involved in campaigning and negotiating pay and conditions for bar managers/tenants
in members clubs under the CORCA agreement with
the club owners.
OUR CAMPAIGN
GMB recently told government ministers that an unintended consequence of the Beer Order legislation in the 1990s
to loosen the tie between breweries and pubs to free up the market for the benefit of consumers has been the growth in ‘pubcos’
who are operating in an anti –competitive manner. It is the impact of the higher charges for drinks that is killing
pubs and driving them out of business. ‘Pubcos ’are blaming everyone else for the problem and not looking at the
damage they have caused through their own greed. GMB
are calling on the government and MPs to revisit this legislation.
OUR AIM –LOWER RENTS AND LOWER WHOLESALE PRICES
Our aim is to break up these companies to enable pub landlords to buy their beer from breweries
and wholesalers at real and competitive prices. Pubs cannot survive being made to be cash cows to pay off the debts of the
property companies and brewers. They do not have the interests of pubs and consumers at heart. We can only achieve this goal together if enough pub tenants stand up to
be counted, join the union and get involved. We will
organise collective legal challenges to the pub companies, lobby Government ministers and represent individual members in
disputes with their pub companies
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Pub Co Spring Newsletter 2010
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