Welcome to GMB
Welcome to GMB. We are a general trade union protecting people at work throughout the UK. With some 700,000 members, nearly 40% of whom are women, we represent workers in three broad sectors of the economy:
- Public services - especially local government and the health service
- Private services - especially retail distribution, airport services and the security industry.
- Private industry - especially engineering, food & drink, chemicals, building materials, clothing & textiles, and energy & utilities.
Latest Press Releases
- GMB welcome new negotiating body for 300,000 school support staff in England
- GMB praises labour plan to pilot universal free healthy school meals
- GMB welcome EDF takeover of British Energy to secure nuclear energy future
- Labour Party conference carries GMB motion to end 'free market fundamentalism' in the energy sector
- Labour Party conference votes by massive margin to end UK opt out from EU working time directive
- Labour Party policy commission failed workers
- TUG Bulletin for week ending Thursday 9 March 2006
- Unions Seek To End Low Pay & Unequal Pay In Higher Education
- Average Hourly Pay In 81 Out of 204 UK Areas Below 90% Of UK Average Of £12.50 Per Hour
- Co-Op Funeral Care Workers To Be Consulted On Strike Action Over Merger Of Their Pensions Fund & Reduction In Pension Benefits

