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GMB union


September 2024

  • Keir Starmer speaks at the TUC congress with a sign saying 'a new deal for working people'.

    ‘We need to hear about hope’: unions greet Keir Starmer TUC speech with mixed emotions

  • Sparks and molten metal fly out as a worker in safety gear and visor operates a blast furnace

    Blow for British steel industry as 2,500 jobs go at Port Talbot

  • tall metal structures at tall metal structures at the Tata Steel plant in Port Talbot silhouetted against a pale sky

    British steel industry braces for 2,500 job cuts at Port Talbot in government deal

  • The back of a Deliveroo rider, surrounded by riders from Just Eat and Uber Eats, on a bicycle wearing a blue Deliveroo backpack.

    Deliveroo accused of paying drivers below agreed minimum of £12 an hour

August 2024

  • Man in protective gear stands in front of fire and machinery

    Thousands of British Steel jobs could go by Christmas, union warns

  • View from above of the interior of a large warehouse, showing huge stacks of boxes

    Ambulances called to Amazon’s UK warehouses 1,400 times in five years

  • Campaigner Frances Stojilkovic outside City Chambers in Glasgow. Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose/The Observer

    The Audio Long Read
    Best of 2024…so far: ‘They were dying, and they’d not had their money’: Britain’s multibillion-pound equal pay scandal – podcast

  • A worker in a hi-vis jacket pushes shopping trolleys outside an Asda store

    Union calls for urgent action to protect jobs as Asda ‘fights for survival’

  • Say it loud and rejoice: the days of anti-union worker exploitation in Britain are coming to an end

    Polly Toynbee
  • Bin strikes due to disrupt Edinburgh festivals called off amid new pay offer

July 2024

  • Callum Cant

    Amazon is moving heaven and earth to beat back unions – but it’s losing ground fast

    Callum Cant
  • Amanda Gearing outside an Amazon warehouse in a hi-vis jacket holding up a giant sign saying 'Better pay'

    ‘Let’s make history!’: Amazon staff at UK warehouse vote on union recognition

  • Amazon workers on strike outside a warehouse in Coventry.

    First Edition newsletter
    Tuesday briefing: Inside the fight to unionise Amazon warehouses

  • Amazon worker outside a warehouse

    Amazon’s Coventry workers begin voting in historic union ballot

June 2024

  • The Amazon building in Coventry.

    GMB starts ballot process to be recognised at Amazon’s Coventry warehouse

    GMB officials urge staff to ‘together, vote yes’ as month-long process begins which may result in first union recognition in UK

May 2024

  • Aerial view of the Gullfaks C oil platform in the North Sea: it is seen as a small construction with cranes and drilling rigs in an expanse of smooth but dark grey sea which stretches to the horizon; the sky is also grey, and cloudy

    Why unions are lobbying Labour over a ‘just transition’ to cleaner energy

  • Picture of a modern prefab building in a yard bearing the Harland & Wolff name and logo, with a huge yellow crane in the background

    Union warns of threat to Harland & Wolff jobs if Treasury vetoes £200m support

April 2024

  • A GMB sign saying 'official dispute' on the street outside the Amazon warehouse in Coventry

    GMB launches legal action against ‘out of control’ Amazon at Coventry warehouse

    Employment tribunal sought over claims firm tried to induce workers to leave union in long-running row
  • Aerial view of Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelwork

    Tata Steel rejects union plan to save jobs and keep Port Talbot furnace open

    Rejection of plan to keep one blast furnace open while building electric replacement ends hopes of avoiding as many as 2,800 job losses
  • Fiona O’Brien, a home carer in Renfrewshire and a GMB rep, joins striking women workers

    ‘We’ve been taken for granted for too long’: equal pay strikes by women spread across Scotland

    Hundreds walk out of their council roles, saying they are paid less than comparable male-dominated jobs
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