Manufacturing 23 June 2021 Hundreds to strike at spitfire manufacturer GKN Sankey… Workers with combined 4,000 years of experience to walk out following assault on redundancy payments.
Manufacturing 24 May 2021 Unions respond to liberty steel sell off Sanjeev Gupta pledged no steel plants would close on his watch and we expect him to honour that…
Economy 7 April 2021 GMB backs Labour's call to build British and protect… Building defence contracts in Britain would give economy major boost with manufacturing jobs.
Manufacturing 1 April 2021 Strike action looms at GKN Wheels and Structures Members vote overwhelmingly to strike over threat to slash redundancy pay.
Manufacturing 1 April 2021 Liberty Steel: Gupta comments ‘welcome’ but must be… These guarantees without showing financial backing just raises further questions.
Care 31 March 2021 More than 350 deaths and 31,000 infections linked to… Health and social care workers made up 70% of reported occupational deaths.
Manufacturing 29 March 2021 Liberty Steel: GMB responds to government rejecting… Plan B must include all options, including taking the UK business into public ownership.
Manufacturing 24 March 2021 JCB workers to strike over pension row Members furious at axing of pension scheme and voted overwhelmingly for action.
Manufacturing 16 March 2021 Integrated Review: defence spending must invest in… Intention to move away from ‘competition by default’ is a step in the right direction but more…
Manufacturing 9 March 2021 GMB comment on Liberty Steel talks Commenting on today’s meeting with the National Trade union steel co-ordinating committee and…
Manufacturing 24 February 2021 GMB condemns sacking of striking workers at tile factory… We wholly condemn the sacking of the Marley strikers, whilst the manager who drove his car at them…
Manufacturing 4 February 2021 Tile factory boss 'drove car at workers' during Christmas… GMB Union launches grievance against Marley Tiles after five workers suspended for taking part in…