John McClean Award 🏆

For GMB’s health and safety team of the year 👩‍🏭👷

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Mary MacArthur Award 🏆

For GMB’s health and safety rep of the year 🦺

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GMB Congress Awards 2024 are open for nominations!

Eleanor Marx Award 🏆

For GMB’s most inspiring woman activist of the year 🪧

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Tax dodgers rob the public of vital funds that should be used to support our schools and hospitals.

This is a crucial intervention from the next chancellor Rachel Reeves

The sick pay system is broken and in desperate need of reform.

It’s completely wrong that workers, mostly women, have no financial support when they’re sick.

We need to:

✅ Lower earnings limit
✅ Raise sick pay rate
❌ Remove 3 day wait for pay

It’s time for Labour’s new…

Hull workers demonstrated outside the Guildhall in Hull this morning, over Hull City Council’s plan to divide their workforce.

HCAL, which runs leisure facilities across the city - including parks, swimming pools, libraries and the Ice Arena - is owned by Hull City Council, who…

GMB wins sick pay for 19,000 care workers by GMB - This is a massive win for GMB members – it represents a landmark shift in culture for the entire care sector. #SickofSSP #CareSector #carehomes #Careworkers Trades Union Congress UNI Global Union EPSU gmb.org.uk/news/gmb-wins-…

GMB WIN 🚨: GMB has secured day one sick pay for 19,000 care workers 🤒

Carers working for HC-One – the UK’s biggest care provider – have accepted a pay deal that gives them sick pay 👏👏

Over 100 Hull workers will demonstrate outside the Guildhall on Monday 25 March from 8.30am over Hull City Council’s plan to divide their workforce.

Councillors are proposing to bring a small number of its staff back under the Council umbrella, creating a two-tier workforce in…

BREAKING 🚨: Doncaster-Sheffield airport saved after GMB campaign 👏👏

125 year lease secures airport for generations to come ✈️

TUC - 1.6 million more people are in poverty in working households since 2010 tuc.org.uk/news/tuc-16-mi…

Thanks to you James for highlighting the #SENDCrisis and it’s good to have the GMB Union backing the issue with the overall funding issues and accountability Government and Local Authorities need to address to #fixSEND

GMB convener James Wilton told the Morning Star that teaching assistants’ job descriptions should be reviewed and their lowest pay grade should be abolished.
He said GMB also wants more training for teaching assistants to help special needs children.

Fantastic demo outside Leeds Civic Hall today, and what a brilliant 👏 deputation to full council from GMB Leeds School Support Staff GMB Campaigns North East, Yorkshire & Humber GMB Union

GMB Union has been campaigning across Leeds schools to organise staff and parents alike, to address the crisis in SEN provision and to fight for safe staffing levels, fair pay and proper staff development.

Excellent SEND Teaching Assistants’ deputation sharing the challenges faced by them and asking for support at the full Council , receiving a standing ovation by all members …

James Wilton, SEND worker and GMB Rep, said:
“Special Educational Support in Leeds, and across the country, is in crisis and as a result children and their families are suffering👇

Great to have the GMB Campaigns North East, Yorkshire & Humber SEND matters deputation at full Council, highlighting the challenges of TAs and support staff in schools across our City.

I was pleased to join in a standing ovation.

6th week of the South Tyneside Refuse strike, leafleting and engaging with the public in Jarrow and Hebburn today, against bullying at work. GMB Campaigns North East, Yorkshire & Humber ITV News Tyne Tees Strike Map

School support staff and parents groups rally outside Leeds Civic Hall today calling for a radical overhaul of the special educational needs (SEND) provision.