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The GMB Judicial Branch has called for the removal of Helen Pitcher, chair of England and Wales' Judicial Appointments Commission. Judges made the call in an open letter to Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood yesterday.

GMB is now the union for judges after the first union branch in the country specifically for judges was opened this week. The branch consists of union members who work in the judicial system, which is traditionally a sector without trade union representation.

Unions have criticised the involvement of private companies in the justice sector following the collapse of three community rehabilitation companies (CRCs). Working Links, a private provider of probation services which manages thousands of offenders in Wales and south west England through three

Thousands of women workers will be given payouts of about £35,000 by the end of 2019 after equal pay campaigners reached a settlement with Scotland's largest council. Glasgow City Council and the joint claimant organisations, GMB, Unison, Unite and Action 4 Equality, have reached an agreement