We are sad to report that our dear friend and retired GMB official, Mick Hubbard, passed away in the early hours of this morning, at home with his family around him.  

• Adoption of GMB’s Ethical Care Charter will see the end of exploitative ‘task and time’ which sees carers paid less than the minimum wage in some cases.

GMB Reps at packaging and box manufacturer, DS Smith in Featherstone, have negotiated a new deal that will see a pay increase of 3.8% across all grades and a High Street voucher worth £150.

The team over at York Workers’ Disabled Co-operative are busy preparing for what they hope will be a great spring and summer in orders for their bespoke garden furniture.

We would like to apologise for the delay in providing the ballot results, considering that the ballot closed on 13 December.  However, as the results have been broken down by local authority, it has taken some time to analyse these which is necessary to understand the strength of feeling in different parts of the country.

Speaking on behalf of its members, the GMB Union has said they have been left angry and dismayed at the news that whilst Kate Josephs was the director general for the Covid taskforce within the cabinet office, she gathered with colleagues to have drinks to mark her leaving the civil service in December 2020 - whilst strict lockdown restrictions were in force. 

Follow the link to watch the recording from our latest H&S Covid-19 Briefing

GMB Union has described new Covid testing plans ‘gesture politics of the worst kind’.

Wilko is to close 16 stores across the UK in what GMB Union describes as ‘another nail in the High Street’s coffin’. 

A typical carer would have to work for 173 years to earn the same money an average CEO scoops in just 12 months, GMB analysis of High Pay Centre data reveals.