‘Dear CEO’: Union reps hit chief executive inboxes at 12.03am

Union bosses flooded chief executives’ email inboxes at 12.03am, minutes after new workers’ rights rules came into effect, it has been reported. GMB representatives contacted thousands of company chiefs with a template email starting “Dear CEO” on 30 October, according to the Sunday Times.  The emails reportedly informed bosses of employees’ legal rights to access trade unions. GMB is one of the country’s biggest unions and represents hundreds of thousands of workers. Representatives asked to “meet, recruit or organise workers” as soon as legal rights came into effect. Chief executives were also told about the unions’ right to invite all staff to online meetings which are conducted during work hours. The move represents unions’ push to capitalise on new workers rights brought through a new section of e Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992. “Each week, the GMB will provide one item of union information (for example, a message, bulletin, short