GMB union

Workers In Action — July-August 2023

Industrial disputes round-up

Workers Power  ·  06 July 2023

NHS pay deal is a pay cut: vote no!

The pay offer is an insult. Organise to fight for more.

Jeremy Dewar  ·  28 March 2023

Public sector pay ballots: press for co-ordination

Nurses, refuse collectors, youth workers, teachers, lecturers and civil servants are being balloted.

Rebecca Anderson  ·  10 September 2022

Deliveroo: GMB sweetheart deal delivers bitter aftertaste

By Alex Reynolds and Tim Nailsea FOOD DELIVERY couriers are one of the worst-paid and most precarious sectors of the labour force. This sector has traditionally been ignored by the major trade unions, who have considered the workforce to be too dispersed to be organised. The only unions who have made any attempt to unionise […]

Workers Power  ·  31 May 2022

We need to coordinate public sector pay ballots

By Rebecca Anderson THERE IS a real opportunity for coordinated strike action between two of Britain’s largest workforces: council workers, including school support staff, and hospital employees. If successful, it could bust the public sector pay freeze and build momentum in private sector struggles for substantial pay rises. Local government and school staff have been […]

Rebecca Anderson  ·  27 October 2021

British Gas threaten to “fire and re-hire” 20,000 workers

GMB must press ahead with strike ballot.

George Banks  ·  03 September 2020

Support the occupation, nationalise Harland & Wolff

Labour must support nationalisation under workers' control

Workers Power  ·  20 August 2019

Local Government: Union leaders prepare fresh capitulation

By Jeremy Dewar, Unison rep, pc Another year, another pay cut. Or so it seems. As we go to press, Britain’s biggest local government union, Unison, is about to close its second consultative ballot (we didn’t give the right answer first time) on the employers’ 2018-19 pay offer. The offer is atrocious: a real pay […]

Workers Power  ·  02 April 2018

Local government: reject the pay offer – fight for five per cent!

By a Unison schools convenor There are 1.3 million local government and school support workers – 78 per cent of them women. We are the housing officers, youth workers, social workers, teaching assistants, caterers and cleaners that keep hard-up families together and services running. Austerity budgets, year after year, have wiped out over 700,000 jobs […]

Workers Power  ·  01 March 2018

Bah Humbug

By Mike Black WORKERS AT the factory that makes Humbug sweets are striking against their Scrooge employer. GMB members at the Tangerine Confectionery site in York are in dispute with their bosses, who have been eroding conditions and making cuts to pension contributions. The 2016 pay offer was a measly 1 per cent increase backdated […]

Mike Black  ·  12 December 2016

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