The next meeting of the Milton Keynes Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group is on Tuesday 20 May at 7pm. The meeting will be held at The Barn (Beefeater) - Secklow Gate West, Milton Keynes, MK9 3BZ.

The 2025 Levellers Day event will be taking place on Saturday 17 May in Burford, Oxfordshire, with a programme running from 10:30-16:30 More details can be found on the events page of our website. gmbmiltonkeynes.org.uk/events/

Levellers Day 2025

📢NJC PAY BALLOT 2025/26 IS OPEN! This is your opportunity to have your say on pay. Make sure your voice is heard. 🗳️ Ballot closes on 20 June. 🗓️

MK Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group will be holding a special film screening of 'Comrade Tambo's London Recruits' on Sunday 15 June. Tickets can be purchased at mkgallery.org/event/comrade-…

Pride began as protest, and that spirit lives on. 🌈 This month, we celebrate love, diversity, and the incredible strength of the LGBTQ+ community. Let’s continue to stand together for equality, respect, and acceptance, today and every day. #HappyPrideMonth

GMB Congress 2025 started today. Here's to another great week of debate and policy making...union democracy in action. Our branch delegate is Lisa Lovell who is attending Congress for the first time. We hope you have a wonderful experience and best of luck with your speeches.

On Sunday we watched Comrade Tambo's London Recruits, a docu about apartheid in South Africa and the struggle to end it. Thanks to the MK Morning Star Group for organising. Joining a union is a great opportunity to meet people and socialise. Enquire about branch meetings.

GMB members in local government and school have voted to REJECT this year's pay offer. More information on our website gmbmiltonkeynes.org.uk/njc-pay-ballot…

📢NJC pay award update: Pay negotiations for 2025/26 are now settled. Local government workers and school support staff will receive a 3.2% pay increase, backdated to 1 April.

Chartwell House, one of Milton Keynes City Council's Sheltered Housing schemes, is having a fun day from 12:00 on Saturday 30 August to raise funds for the garden. There will be games, a raffle, and food available to purchase. Chartwell Road, Newport Pagnell, MK16 9EE.

From the streets of London to the halls of power, our members’ voices matter. In the first episode of Voices of GMB, Nisar Ahmed Shafi explains how GMB has had his back and why every worker should have union protection. Together, we fight to make work better.✊ #VoicesofGMB

The first London Regional Council meeting, covering 2025-2029, is being held today. Your branch had 3 delegates successfully elected for this term. If you'd like to know more about how your union functions or you're thinking about getting more involved, please reach out to us.

The #GMBSistersConference2025 closed with a packed final session - from UnionLine and the benefits of GMB membership, to Q&A, and the launch of our campaign for Free Period Products in workplaces. A day full of organising energy, real solutions and women shaping change.

The government have said they can only afford 2.5% for NHS Pay. That's not good enough. Ministers must recognise the PRB is broken. They need to come to the table themselves - and deliver the decent pay that NHS workers deserve.

30 years ago the Disability Discrimination Act came into force. It made it illegal to discriminate against disabled people - for the first time. There’s still so much to do. But we celebrate the steps forward along the way.

On this day in 1897 Nye Bevan, the founder of our NHS, was born in South Wales. Today let's remind ourselves of the struggle to create our NHS and reinvigorate our determination to defend it 👏

Closing the Marston Gate site may be a simple decision for Amazon, but the decisions our members face over the coming months won’t be so easy. Many of our members live in the local area and have planned work around caring responsibilities and other commitments.