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06 June 2005
GMB Plans Drive To Recruit UK
Casino Staff
The
GMB union is planning a recruitment drive among croupiers
and casino staff in a renewed effort to move away from its
traditional manufacturing background.
The union planned to use
casinos as a springboard into the hospitality industry,
aiming to follow the success of US unions that have
recruited in Las Vegas.
Unite Here, a US union
that will speak at this week's GMB annual conference, has
increased its membership among staff in Las Vegas casinos to
50,000, from 10,000 in 1987.
The move by GMB comes
after other drives by the union into high-profile, poorly
unionised areas of the economy. GMB already has divisions
for sex workers and chauffeurs.
Two-thirds of its 600,000
members work in service industries, with a third employed in
manufacturing - reversing the ratio of ten years
ago.
Paul Kenny, GMB's acting
general secretary, said: "We have got to adapt ourselves to
the world of work today." The union said its research showed
that commercial services employ 55.6 per cent of all
employees in Britain. The figure is 60 per cent in London,
it said.
"We need to replace the
well-paid manufacturing jobs of yesterday with well-paid
commercial service jobs for tomorrow," Mr Kenny
said.
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