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01 Oct 2020

1 in 3 bosses set to make redundancies, study shows

Rishi Sunak’s Winter Economic Plan doesn’t even come close to addressing the scale of the challenge

23 Sep 2020

Cabinet Minister pledges to look into private prison covid sick pay

Prison staff need assurances they will not be penalised for self-isolating

17 Sep 2020

Care home cash welcome - but full sick pay best way to combat COVID

The single biggest weapon to fight covid-19 in care is for the Government to commit to full pay for those who have to take time off work

Wylfa collapse 'utterly predictable'

Hitachi pulling out result of successive Governments failing to act decisively

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19 Nov 2020

Trans Day of Remembrance

GMB Activist Linda Wall writes of her experience of being trans and shares her thoughts on this Trans Day of Remembrance

19 Nov 2020

Fighting for the rights of NHS workers has never been more important

NHS Nurse and GMB Rep Holly Turner writes on the importance of the campaign for a proper pay rise for NHS workers

18 Nov 2020

Improving equality in workplaces for disabled people

GMB Activist Izzy Pochin writes on how we can improve equality in workplaces and in our union for disabled people.

18 Nov 2020

Why it’s important to me to be a strong trans ally

GMB National Equality Forum Women’s Lead Sarah James writes on why it's important to be a strong trans ally

17 Nov 2020

Five ways you can be an ally to the trans and non binary community

GMB Activist Christina Dearlove writes on why we can't leave challenging transphobia just to trans people and gives give ways you can be an ally to the trans and non binary community

16 Nov 2020

Does the law help Young Workers?

The Equality Act treats discrimination based on age different to other protected characteristics because the law allows employers to discriminate because of peoples age in a wider range of situations and if the employer can prove it is justified.

The main issue that I and many other young people have faced in my workplace is the minimum wage. It is not illegal to pay a young worker the lower minimum wage if that is what they qualify for.

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01 Sep 2020

Opportunistic raid on workers pay at USW ‘Appalling’

GMB Union have slammed University of South Wales’s (USW) penny pinching that will see new employees paid significantly less for doing the same job with a stripped back pension, despite the university holding millions of pounds in its reserves.

31 Jul 2020

Cash industry crisis: shopkeeper sacked for helping elderly buy bread

The Government must take action to protect the cash industry and all those who will be hit hard is it disappears

01 Jul 2020

Reopening job centres 'more PR than policy'

Security guards are amongst those occupations with the highest covid-19 death rates

Unions back hydrogen jobs boom

Hydrogen strategy can create and sustain thousands of green jobs say union

29 May 2020

Track and Trace will spread poverty or infection without full sick pay

Ministers on whopping salaries expect keyworkers to self-isolate on £95 a week

Unions set out five tests government and colleges must meet before staff and students can return

Staff and student safety must be guaranteed before colleges can reopen, said trade unions today as they set out five tests* that must be met by government and colleges.

Unions representing staff working in further education colleges^ called for stringent hygiene measures, protection for vulnerable people and isolation for all suspected cases to avoid colleges becoming Covid-19 hotspots.

08 May 2020

Wider schools reopening needs science-based approach

GMB members in schools are genuinely frightened for themselves, their loved ones, pupils and colleagues

14 Apr 2020

Colleagues 'heartbroken' after coventry mum dies of coronavirus

All who knew Carole are devastated at her untimely death

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Sunak's public sector pay freeze set to cost Tories red wall seats

Public sector workers face new austerity as ministers dole out billions to chums

GMB launch British Gas strike ballot after company refuse to withdraw threats to workers

1 in 3 bosses set to make redundancies, study shows

Cabinet Minister pledges to look into private prison covid sick pay

Care home cash welcome - but full sick pay best way to combat COVID

Wylfa collapse 'utterly predictable'

In Focus

Trans Day of Remembrance

Fighting for the rights of NHS workers has never been more important

Improving equality in workplaces for disabled people

Why it’s important to me to be a strong trans ally

Five ways you can be an ally to the trans and non binary community

Does the law help Young Workers?

More news

Opportunistic raid on workers pay at USW ‘Appalling’

Cash industry crisis: shopkeeper sacked for helping elderly buy bread

Reopening job centres 'more PR than policy'

Unions back hydrogen jobs boom

Track and Trace will spread poverty or infection without full sick pay

Unions set out five tests government and colleges must meet before staff and students can return

Wider schools reopening needs science-based approach

Colleagues 'heartbroken' after coventry mum dies of coronavirus

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Sunak's public sector pay freeze set to cost Tories red wall seats

Public sector workers face new austerity as ministers dole out billions to chums

GMB launch British Gas strike ballot after company refuse to withdraw threats to workers

1 in 3 bosses set to make redundancies, study shows

Cabinet Minister pledges to look into private prison covid sick pay

Care home cash welcome - but full sick pay best way to combat COVID

Wylfa collapse 'utterly predictable'

In Focus

Trans Day of Remembrance

Fighting for the rights of NHS workers has never been more important

Improving equality in workplaces for disabled people

Why it’s important to me to be a strong trans ally

Five ways you can be an ally to the trans and non binary community

Does the law help Young Workers?

More news

Opportunistic raid on workers pay at USW ‘Appalling’

Cash industry crisis: shopkeeper sacked for helping elderly buy bread

Reopening job centres 'more PR than policy'

Unions back hydrogen jobs boom

Track and Trace will spread poverty or infection without full sick pay

Unions set out five tests government and colleges must meet before staff and students can return

Wider schools reopening needs science-based approach

Colleagues 'heartbroken' after coventry mum dies of coronavirus