Press Releases
Lack of A and E capacity at London hospitals diverts ambulances putting lives at risk
Wednesday 22nd May 2013
Response to report that MP's pay review body is recommending a 15 per cent rise in MP salaries
Monday 20th May 2013
GMB challenge London ambulance service over proposed changes to ambulance staff skill levels which are detrimental to the public
Monday 20th May 2013
Next retail change hours of working parents in south coast store with little thought given to social impact
Friday 17th May 2013
GMB mobilise for defend London's NHS demonstration on Saturday May 18
Wednesday 15th May 2013
GMB welcome awards from South West TUC For GMB representatives at Carillion in Swindon hospital dispute
Wednesday 15th May 2013
GMB protest on Thursday 16 May at London ceremony as blacklister Carillion is shortlisted for a sustainable business award
Wednesday 15th May 2013
GMB protest at Big Lottery in Birmingham over HR professional's role in blacklisting construction workers
Tuesday 14th May 2013
Remploy announce possible sale of three factories and closure of Huddersfield with no plans yet for the other 15
Tuesday 14th May 2013
Slippage to autumn 2015 for full scale of roll out of smart meters is bad for jobs and customers
Monday 13th May 2013
GMB official strike ballot at Cityclean department in Brighton in dispute over pay cuts
Monday 13th May 2013
New government regulations following Southern Cross Collapse must ensure care companies cash as AA seeks to raise £3.1 billion in long term debts
Thursday 9th May 2013
Heads should roll in October 2013 review of NMP Sellafield contract to get better quality work and stop waste of public money
Friday 3rd May 2013
GMB welcomes bids for the Norwich remploy factory that will keep disabled workers at work
Wednesday 1st May 2013
GMB warn parents and teachers of asbestos in heaters in schools
Monday 29th April 2013
GMB calls for government to deal with tax dodging and welcomes steps to turn tide on tax evasion and avoidance across the EU
Friday 26th April 2013
GMB to consult members in local government in England, Wales and Northern Ireland over new pay offer for 2013
Wednesday 24th April 2013
GMB says delays at Hinkley Point C nuclear station is disappointing news for employment and carbon free power
Wednesday 24th April 2013
GMB disabled member wrongly assessed for 'bedroom tax' by Birmingham City Council due to error over number of bedrooms asks if rent was overpaid for seven years
Monday 22nd April 2013
Lobby of Parliament on April 23 to keep MOD base at Aschurch open
Thursday 18th April 2013
GMB Heathrow drivers to take industrial action in pay dispute as real value of earnings fall by 12% over the last seven years
Wednesday 17th April 2013
Chancellor should heed IMF advice to change course to grow the economy to end needless waste of human talent
Wednesday 17th April 2013
GMB welcomes interim parliamentary report on blacklisting and call on employers to apologise and compensate workers damaged
Tuesday 16th April 2013
GMB welcomes 12 per hour increase in national minimum wage from October 1 2013 as 'vital pay rise'
Monday 15th April 2013
GMB welcome survey results of health care assistants after the Francis report
Thursday 11th April 2013
GMB demonstration at Skanska AGM in Stockholm on Thursday April 11th over construction workers blacklisting in UK
Tuesday 9th April 2013
Community nurses are stressed, overworked and demoralised in NHS Ayrshire and Arran
Monday 8th April 2013
GMB members at VIP Polymers in Huntingdon being consulted on possible strike action over 10 per cent cut in pay and conditions
Monday 8th April 2013
Workers at Crane Building Services in St Helens to take strike action on Sunday April 7, 2013
Friday 5th April 2013
GMB call on new Scottish police chiefs to intervene in Scottish police HQ Sodexo pay dispute
Thursday 4th April 2013
GMB march and rally in Brighton on April 6th over £30m cuts at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
Thursday 4th April 2013
GMB wins battle for trade union recognition at Ministry Of Justice legal aid agency
Wednesday 3rd April 2013
Government not preparing households for coming price hikes for energy
Wednesday 27th March 2013
Governments' new nuclear strategy is fine on paper but there is no organisation in UK to deliver it
Tuesday 26th March 2013
GMB on Francis NHS report
Tuesday 26th March 2013
GMB seek meeting on beer tie
Monday 25th March 2013
GMB to tell blacklist support group AGM that managers and HR professionals must account for role in blacklisting construction workers
Friday 22nd March 2013
GMB call on public to support six of the remaining Leeds Council run care homes and four day centres during consultation period on closing them
Friday 22nd March 2013
Budget 2013: Electorate must punish coalition for mission impossible plan to deflate the economy to growth and a balanced budget
Wednesday 20th March 2013
Demonstration in Brighton on April 6, over £30m cuts at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
Wednesday 20th March 2013
Planning consent for Hinkley Point C welcome but delay in fixing price for nuclear power bad for investment and jobs in UK says GMB
Tuesday 19th March 2013
24 hour Sodexo strike at Scottish police college over living wage well supported says GMB
Monday 18th March 2013
1,000 net R & D job losses at Astra Zeneca is disasterous news for UK and North West
Monday 18th March 2013
GMB members from Islington and Haringey speak up and march to defend the Whittington hospital in Archway, North London
Friday 15th March 2013
Reaction to NHS pay review - real terms pay cut
Friday 15th March 2013
Carillion GMB school support staff strike action on March 15, in Sheffield for living wage
Tuesday 12th March 2013
Council jobs down 380,500 since 2010
Monday 11th March 2013
GMB members in living wage protest at passing out ceremony at Scottish Fife police college Friday March 8th
Thursday 7th March 2013
Environment agency proposed two hour response target for Thames locks and weirs will increase risk of flooding and endanger lives
Thursday 7th March 2013
What is pub conciliation chief's position on key principle that a tied pub tenant be no worse off than a free of tie tenant
Wednesday 6th March 2013
20 social care staff in Barnet face cuts in pay and jobs and new work rosters as outsourced service pays price for bad policy
Tuesday 5th March 2013
GMB calls off Cheshire protests after employers agrees to apply NAECI agreement to nuclear construction site
Tuesday 5th March 2013
Landlords own 40 per cent of ex council houses
Tuesday 5th March 2013
GMB equality conference in Leeds to debate gender pay gap as new report show £52,795 gap for chief executives
Monday 4th March 2013
Call for nationalised nuclear development authority to build new nuclear power stations for low carbon electricity
Monday 4th March 2013
Cross infection contamination risks
Friday 1st March 2013
Changed role for porter's at Morecambe Bay NHS Hospital Trust increases risk of infection
Friday 1st March 2013
Attack by minister on trade union workplace representatives does a difficult job is wrong and insulting
Friday 1st March 2013
Pickles attack wrong and insulting
Friday 1st March 2013
GMB asks micro brewers to contact BIS to express support for "free of tie" option in statutory code for pub industry
Thursday 28th February 2013
Ofgem cut of 20% investment in gas distribution will lead to 3,000 job losses and lives lost in gas explosions
Thursday 28th February 2013
Carillion's defence of blacklisting is 'pathetic' as court orders appeal for Essex engineer blacklisted by Carillion
Wednesday 27th February 2013
GMB against cuts to terms and conditions for staff in the NHS at vote in London to accept the changes
Tuesday 26th February 2013
Electricians top trade on construction industry blacklist
Tuesday 26th February 2013
GMB welcome creation of 1,000 new green jobs at British Gas to help cut energy bills
Monday 25th February 2013
GMB second cheshire protest on Wednesday 27th February over refusal to apply NAECI agreement to nuclear construction site
Monday 25th February 2013
Carillion in court for blacklisting
Friday 22nd February 2013
Consults with members on new offer for 1.5m council workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Friday 22nd February 2013
TaxPayers' Alliance mix up salary and redundancy pay to erroneously infer that 28,754 council staff 'earned' over £50,000 a year
Wednesday 20th February 2013
That we have mass unemployment of two and a half million five years into this recession is a waste on a grand scale
Wednesday 20th February 2013
GMB NHS members vote to reject proposals to cut terms and conditions of employment for NHS workers in England
Tuesday 19th February 2013
MSPs should go to Scottish Parliament meeting on Thursday February 21 to press ICO to inform 582 Scottish workers they are on construction blacklist
Tuesday 19th February 2013
Remploy workers bid for automotive business in Birmingham, Coventry and Derby as social enterprise to save jobs
Monday 18th February 2013
GMB Cheshire protest on Wed February 20 over refusal to apply national agreement for engineering construction (NAECI) to nuclear site
Monday 18th February 2013
GMB calls on the Scottish affairs select committee to probe how and why environmental activists were placed on construction industry blacklist
Monday 18th February 2013
GMB oppose sheffield city council plan mandatory cctv in city's licensed taxis and cabs
Friday 15th February 2013
Welcomes Labour promise to fight next election on living standards and calls on party leaders to end support for public sector pay freeze
Friday 15th February 2013
GMB to picket Scottish police college in Fife today 14th February in pay dispute
Thursday 14th February 2013
Government should obey the law and scrap the costly failed workfare experiment
Wednesday 13th February 2013
Welcomes Barking and Dagenham council introduction of minimum wage of £9 an hour for council staff
Wednesday 13th February 2013
GMB Amazon protest
Tuesday 12th February 2013
On funding for elderly care government is tinkering around the edges with changes that are too little, too late and too vague
Monday 11th February 2013
GMB calls on every hospital, school and meals on wheels service to verify they have not served horsemeat to vulnerable people
Friday 8th February 2013
Damning employment tribunal judgement illustrates racism at Camden council
Friday 8th February 2013
60 blacklisted wokers in East Midlands
Thursday 7th February 2013
507 blacklisted in North West
Thursday 7th February 2013
103 blacklisted in Eastern region
Thursday 7th February 2013
Fife industrial action at Sodexo police HQ
Wednesday 6th February 2013
GMB and Four Seasons health care sign joint recognition agreement covering 30,000 staff in over 500 locations
Tuesday 5th February 2013
Calls for nationalised nuclear development authority to build new nuclear power stations for low carbon electricity
Monday 4th February 2013
'Bonkers' call by right-wing think tank to restart public sector pension negotiations based on new 'costs' that do not exist
Monday 4th February 2013
GMB calls for urgent meeting with government in response to public accounts committee criticism of NDA performance at Sellafield
Monday 4th February 2013
GMB members vote to accept Sodexo offer to settle dispute at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS trust
Friday 1st February 2013
GMB no to South London NHS cuts
Thursday 31st January 2013
Five more councils pledge living wage
Tuesday 29th January 2013
GMB welcome recognition deal for civilian staff at Nottinghamshire police force
Monday 28th January 2013
State pension reforms will cost about £1bn in extra tax and will further accelerate private sector final salary pension scheme closure says GMB
Monday 28th January 2013
GMB on march for Lewisham A&E
Friday 25th January 2013
GMB water workers accuse water industry managers and ofwat of complacency that fails consumers and workers
Thursday 24th January 2013
GMB seeks £7.45 per hour (£8.55 London) living wage for 280,000 council workers supported by Ed Miliband and agreements in 27 councils
Thursday 24th January 2013
GMB warns Cameron that workers will not vote in a referendum for a one way street Europe where they are second class citizens
Wednesday 23rd January 2013
GMB welcome new approach from ICO over 200 members on blacklist as lawyers prepare litigation for compensation
Tuesday 22nd January 2013
GMB seek urgent meeting with Ineos Chlor Vinyls over 130 job losses at Runcorn
Monday 21st January 2013
200 GMB members on construction blacklist list as ICO fail to cooperate with lawyers preparing litigation for compensation
Monday 21st January 2013
EU social laws for a yes vote
Friday 18th January 2013
GMB to consult members over failure to find resolution to high pay rises for senior officers at Caerpilly Council
Friday 18th January 2013
GMB warns Cameron that workers will not vote in a referendum for a one way street europe where they are second class citizens
Thursday 17th January 2013
Tories hostile to EU want to scrap laws to prevent another Clapham junction train disaster says GMB
Wednesday 16th January 2013
GMB warns public over appointment of 'axe man' as new chief executive at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
Tuesday 15th January 2013
GMB TO CONSULT MEMBERS ON REVISED TERMS FROM ABERDEENSHIRE COUNCIL IN BALLOT THAT CLOSES ON 25TH JANUARY
Monday 14th January 2013
GMB fears that pension proposals will scupper public sector pensions deals
Monday 14th January 2013
GMB to consult members over proposal to resolve Sodexo dispute at Sussex hospitals as industrial action ballot process is suspended
Friday 11th January 2013
MP'S support for statutory code on fair rents in tied pubs in parliamentary debate welcomed by GMB
Thursday 10th January 2013
Real value of average earnings for all employees in UK have dropped by 12.8 per cent since 2008 official data shows
Wednesday 9th January 2013
Meeting in london to avert action at sussex hospitals as company apologises to staff
Wednesday 9th January 2013
GMB welcome Vince Cable plan for statutory code for fair tied pub rents and urges `free of tie` option in statutory code
Wednesday 9th January 2013
East of England and East Midlands ambulance services fails to meet target for category A calls in 12 months to October 2012
Tuesday 8th January 2013
GMB call on Sheffield City Council to postpone changes in children's services to November to allow time to assess funding switches
Monday 7th January 2013
GMB demo today at Brighton hospital as Sodexo fail to sort pay problems for four weeks running
Monday 7th January 2013
GMB calls for urgent review as changes to immigration laws cause confusion and harm families
Wednesday 2nd January 2013
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