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.
Our broad membership base means diversity is our strength. We draw on a wide repertoire of experience in all our dealings with our members and their employers.
Latest Press Releases
- Local government pensions are affordable and sustainable
- Real front line council services are already being cut
- The recession is far from over for employment as the recent large scale job losses show
- 'It's a gimmick not a big idea'
- Providing for future generations of pensioners is a key challenge
- GMB welcomes the report of the national equality panel
- GMB and local government unions outraged at pay freeze
- Unemployment
- The facts about local government pensions
- Tory spending cuts: A recipe for mass unemployment on a huge scale says GMB
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