Beautiful South stars Paul Heaton and Jacquie Abbott have announced a special one-off gig - for care workers.

GMB has been inundated with calls from GMB members, many of them front line nursing staff working in Covid-19 areas at Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching NHS Foundation Trust. Like our front-line staff we were outraged at the calls from the Trust to re-use PPE.

Since Friday over 1,200 people have signed the Derbyshire County Council petition objecting care home closures. Thank you if you were one of the many who signed.

This toolkit is for GMB reps to take up issues around PPE in their workplace. It will also help GMB members stand up for their right to work safely.

A hospital worker employed by private company ISS has been told he faces the sack after a dispute over PPE.
The man - who collects rubbish from Queen Elizabeth’s hospital, in Woolwich - was told he wasn’t entitled to wear a face mask.

Are you a budding Picasso? Don’t worry if you’re not, it’s time to get creative. We need your help and want you to enter our competition by designing a poster and image for our equality team here at the GMB.

We have organised a social care members’ webinar for Monday 20th April 2020 at 2.30pm. An invite will be sent by email today to all social care members with a link for them to sign up to the webinar. 

GMB along with sister unions have again met with the NJC Joint Secretaries to discuss urgent issues relating to the Coronavirus and also to discuss the on-going pay talks.

‘Horrified’ staff at Barnsley hospital treating Covid-19 patients have been given personal protection equipment 19 years out of date.

We've just launched some great new online courses for you to get your teeth into. Have a look at our flyer and if there's anything you fancy doing then contact a member of our project team (contact details in the flyer) 👇