1.3 million council workers and school staff have taken the pragmatic decision to accept a two-year deal worth 2.4% on the pay bill.

Senior organiser Graham Benton retires after 28 years’ service with GMB.  

Today is International Workers’ Memorial Day - GMB offices across the region fell silent at 10.00am so that staff and activists could pay their respect to lost and injured workers.   The ringing of a memorial bell, situated at each of our offices, signalled the start of a minutes silence.

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Ambulance staff cannot be expected to keep picking up the slack for government incompetence on promises to invest that they have failed to deliver says GMB.

GMB activists and staff joined with hundreds of other protestors, which included medical staff, other trade unions and members of the public when they marched through the centre of Leeds in protest against NHS reforms and funding changes. 

Unscrupulous construction companies are exploiting non UK workers at rates of pay as low as £7 per hour rather than paying £16.64 per hour under the relevant UK collective agreements says GMB.

No one wants a strike but this ballot resulted in a 92.5% vote in favour of action that shows the level of our members’ anger at mistreatment says GMB.

Following full membership consultation by GMB, and similar exercises by Unison and Unite, there is a different position among the national trade unions over the two-year pay deal that came about from national negotiations.

A failed plan from a failed Chancellor who doesn't live in the real world says GMB.

GMB's full ballot of all members in councils, schools and most academies closed on 14^th March with a big majority in favour of accepting the offer from the Employers.