Workers of different backgrounds face different and unfair challenges in the workplace - from unequal pay to bullying and harrassment. That's why GMB members organise around equality.
Each of our branches has a position for a Branch Equality Officer. These activists - ordinary GMB members like you - help advise workers on equality issues and help them organise in their workplace on what is most important to them.
GMB's Regional Equality Officers are staff members who support regional self-organised groups to campaign on what matters to them at work.
Our National Equality Department, Women's Campaign Unit and National Race Organiser coordinate campaigns and events across regions and develop new policies to help members at work.
Women make up over 50% of GMB members. GMB activists campaign and fight for better rights, pay and conditions for all women at work.
Ensuring that equality is at the forefront of everything we do - making work a better, safer place for everyone - is part of our core values.
Get in touch if you're passionate about women's equality and looking to get involved.
Find out more about the issues woman face in the workplace and how being a GMB member can help.
Established in 2021, the GMB Women's Campaign Unit demonstrates the union's renewed focus on making work better for women.
GMB campaigns and fights for better rights, pay and conditions for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic workers.
Ensuring that equality is at the forefront of everything we do is part of our core values. This has to include Black, Asian and minority voices, whether it's through tackling structural and institutional racism, fighting the far right or fighting for health and pay equality for everyone.
Read Dr. Elizabeth Henry's report recommendations to assist GMB in becoming a fully inclusive union.
The legal duty for employers to make reasonable adjustments for disabled workers has been in force for almost a quarter of a century, but many disabled workers still face a daily battle with bosses for the basic adjustments they need to do their job.
GMB campaigns and fights for better rights, pay and conditions for all LGBT+ workers.
Ensuring that equality is at the forefront of everything we do - making work and society a better, safer place for everyone - is part of our core values.
We make sure that lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans worker voices are heard in the workplace - and within the union too.
Our new Trans and Non-binary: Equality in the Workplace campaign toolkit builds on our longstanding solidarity with trans and non-binary workers.
GMB Young Workers is the Network for all GMB members aged up to and including 30.
We campaign and organise for better rights, pay and conditions for young people at work. Get in touch with us if you are a young member looking to get involved!
Everyone at work deserves to be treated fairly, but sometimes it's difficult to know if we are within our rights to speak up or challenge a decision our employer has taken.
