With Banners Held High at Unity+Works Wakefield on Saturday 5 March 2016 will be a packed day of music, debates, films, poetry and exhibitions.

GMB, the union for care home staff, is calling on all 15 councils in Yorkshire and the Humber with social care responsibilities to use to the full, their new powers to raise an additional £161.2m per annum on the council tax by 2019/20 to have for residential care.

Trade Union Bill will shift the balance of power even further in favour of employers making it much harder for ordinary workers to stand up to their bosses says GMB.

Well done to Neil Derrick on his recent appointment as Regional Secretary for the Yorkshire and North Derbyshire region. 

On the 13^th January 2016, ASDA informed GMB of their proposal to remove all current canteen facilities within Asda stores.

GMB Yorkshire and North Derbyshire region stood in solidarity with junior doctors when they took industrial action yesterday in relation to contract changes. The government want to impose a new contract on junior doctors.

Not only has the council annihilated the terms and conditions they are forcing through something which doesn’t work says GMB.

You will have seen the news over the holiday period and the devastation suffered by people living within our region.

Goods collected from the public, local supermarkets and shops are redistributed under a voucher system and will provide enough food for a whole family for a week says GMB

GMB MEMBERS TO JOIN MARCH IN KNOTTINGLEY WEST YORKSHIRE ON SAT 19^TH DEC TO MARK CLOSURE OF KELLINGLEY LAST DEEP MINE IN UK ON 18^TH DEC