Following on from the successful seminar held in February 2015 we are now making arrangements to hold next year’s seminar which will take place at the Holiday Inn, Wakefield Road, Garforth, Leeds, LS25 1LH on the 20/21 February 2016.

With Talk From Biographer Rachel Homes At Euston National Office.  The event is to celebrate the monumental achievements of Eleanor Marx the co-founder of the union and other radical working women and to link them to current struggles says GMB

Junior doctors are at the forefront of resisting further cuts to pay and conditions in NHS where pay has fallen by 10% in real terms since 2008 says GMB.

Green Co members (Sheffield Household Waste Recycling Centres) are embroiled in a bitter battle after staff have been sacked or forced to leave their jobs in a long dispute about how the centres are being run.

GMB Protest At Northern Consumer Council Meeting Over Profiteering And Cuts To Jobs And Pensions In The Industry.

Please find attached the report of voting for the CEC Central Executive Council Elections 2015. 

As you will be aware the Steel industry in the UK is in real crisis, with massive job losses taking place with the closure of the SSI plant in Redcar, redundancies in Tata Steel in Scunthorpe and the potential closure of the plants in Scotland on top of job losses which will take place in Rotherham and redundancies and closures in Caparo Industries.

It is such an honour and I'm so proud and humbled to be elected General Secretary of our great union says Tim Roache.

The independent scrutineer Electoral Reform Services have advised of their certified result of the Election of General Secretary & Treasurer 2015;

McCARTHY, Paul              43%

ROACHE, Tim John          57%

Tim John ROACHE has been duly elected as General Secretary & Treasurer.

Big brands should pay £10 per hour living wage, end zero hours contracts and confront bullying managers to bring security to the mainly young worker says GMB.