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This International Women’s Day we’re celebrating the wins secured by women across our union for pay justice 👏

#InternationalWomensDay

“Go ahead” – A Woman’s Place is in Her Union Read the GMB Women's Campaign Unit blog about the power of women joining together as a collective, for under one banner we are stronger together.

"As International Women’s Day 2026 approaches, the most valuable way for our sisters to give is to join together as a collective, for under one banner we are stronger together."

Read more from our Women's Campaign Unit 👇

#IWD
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BREAKING 🚨: Workers at Immingham docks petroleum company launch strike action Monday 👏

50 workers will down tools in the dispute sparked by bosses dismissing staff outside of due process 🪧

Happy Holi to everyone celebrating - from all of us at GMB 🥳

Purim Sameach from everyone at the GMB to those celebrating the festival of Purim! 🎭

BREAKING 🚨: £2.2bn in wages lost by school staff due to term-time only contracts 💷

Teachers are paid year round but other staff including teaching assistants miss out on pay 🙅

Four years ago Putin began his brutal invasion of Ukraine.

Today - and all days - we stand with Ukrainians.

Sláva Ukrayíni 🇺🇦

BREAKING 🚨: Knowsley Council facing equal pay claims worth tens of millions 💷

More than fifty years after the equal pay act, it's a scandalous women are still paid less for doing work of equal value 🙅

New money for SEND is badly needed.

But if training and development is only for heads and teaching staff, the strategy is doomed to fail.

Support staff are key to SEND provision.

They must be included in any skills or workforce strategy.

Wishing everyone a very happy Ramadan ☪️

#RamadanKareem #RamadanMubarak

A backdrop of Chinese lanterns with the words Happy Lunar New Year overlaid

Hoping everyone celebrating has a very happy Lunar New Year!

Gōng xǐ fā cái - from everyone at GMB 🎇

BREAKING 🚨: BMA staff to start ballot on strike action over pay erosion 👏

400 workers will be balloted - after a pay offer far below what the BMA demands for its own members 🪧

We welcome NHS workers receiving their pay increase when it is due.

The first time in years.

But this award is just not enough to make up for more than a decade of pay cuts under the Tories.

NHS workers deserve more. We will fight for that.

This week is #HeartUnions Week🧡

By campaigning together GMB members make work better 👏

Join our union 👉 gmb.org.uk/join-gmb

BREAKING 🚨: Barnsley NHS staff ready to strike in response to fire and rehire threat 🙌

97% backed strike action - in a ballot of more than 600 workers 🪧

February is LGBT+ History Month - a time for us to celebrate the progress we've made and reflect on the battles to be won.

GMB will always be a proud and loud voice for equality 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

#LGBTHistoryMonth

People will be outraged at bill rises when water infrastructure is collapsing around our ears.

The water companies say the increases will lead to billions of investment.

We need to see this delivered, or customers will demand money back.

BREAKING 🚨: More than 600 workers in Barnsley NHS start industrial action ballot after fire and rehire threat 🙅

The trust wants to impose new contracts on staff - including nurses - to:

☕ stop paid breaks
💷 increase shift length without pay rises

Amazon slashing 16,000 jobs shows the company for what it is.

They cannot be trusted to do right by working people.

Now is the time for decision makers to see them as what they are.

Eighty one years ago today Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated.

This Holocaust Memorial Day we must remember the importance of standing against prejudice and hate.

#HolocaustMemorialDay

BREAKING 🚨: ASDA plan to outsource George clothing delivery - risking 1200 jobs 🚛

The Government's planned new water regulator must have teeth.

Thousands of customers across the South East have been left without water - leaving staff to pick up the pieces.

Meanwhile the top brass pick up big bonuses for presiding over the whole mess.

This must change.

GMB WIN 🚨: Over 4000 Doncaster Council workers are set for a pay rise worth millions 👏

From April staff will have their pay bumped up by 2.5% - reversing a Conservative austerity era cut 💷

GMB WIN: Bromley parking dispute settles as members earn London Living Wage backpay victory 👏

Workers voted overwhelmingly to accept the deal which includes a non-consolidated bonus 🚗

Amazon must temporarily close their Coventry warehouse after a TB outbreak.

Preventing a major outbreak is more important than Amazon's profit margins.

Workers must be put onto full sick pay.

On this day in 1855 Eleanor Marx, a co-founder of our union, was born.

She was at the forefront of the fight for the 8 hour working day and consistently fought for justice & equality.

Today we celebrate all her achievements 👏

BREAKING 🚨: Over 100 workers laid off at Manchester steel firm 🏭

Thomas Storey Fabrications Group factory - which made Bailey bridges for allied troops during World War Two - hasn't given staff hours for over a month 🪖

Today's record-breaking windfarm auction is good news.

Securing significant investment in clean power is what we need to hit net zero.

This is a golden opportunity to on-shore supply chains and create good jobs across the UK.

We must take it.

BREAKING 🚨: Cow dung could help heat 10 million homes and save thousands of gas jobs, GMB analysis shows.

Cow poo already provides enough energy in the grid to heat over 800,000 homes, set to rise to 1.2m 🐮