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GMB union


August 2024

  • View from above of the interior of a large warehouse, showing huge stacks of boxes

    Ambulances called to Amazon’s UK warehouses 1,400 times in five years

    GMB union urges Health and Safety Executive to investigate ‘shocking’ figures revealed by the Observer
  • Campaigner Frances Stojilkovic outside City Chambers in Glasgow. Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose/The Observer

    The Audio Long Read
    Best of 2024…so far: ‘They were dying, and they’d not had their money’: Britain’s multibillion-pound equal pay scandal – podcast

    Every Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2024, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it.

    This week, from February: In 2005, Glasgow council offered to compensate women for historic pay inequality. But it sold them short again – and soon workers all over the UK started fighting for what they were owed. By Samira Shackle

    • Union calls for urgent action to protect jobs as Asda ‘fights for survival’

    • Say it loud and rejoice: the days of anti-union worker exploitation in Britain are coming to an end

      Polly Toynbee

    • Bin strikes due to disrupt Edinburgh festivals called off amid new pay offer

July 2024

  • Callum Cant

    Amazon is moving heaven and earth to beat back unions – but it’s losing ground fast

    Callum Cant
  • Amanda Gearing outside an Amazon warehouse in a hi-vis jacket holding up a giant sign saying 'Better pay'

    ‘Let’s make history!’: Amazon staff at UK warehouse vote on union recognition

  • Amazon workers on strike outside a warehouse in Coventry.

    First Edition newsletter
    Tuesday briefing: Inside the fight to unionise Amazon warehouses

  • Amazon worker outside a warehouse

    Amazon’s Coventry workers begin voting in historic union ballot

June 2024

  • The Amazon building in Coventry.

    GMB starts ballot process to be recognised at Amazon’s Coventry warehouse

    GMB officials urge staff to ‘together, vote yes’ as month-long process begins which may result in first union recognition in UK

May 2024

  • Aerial view of the Gullfaks C oil platform in the North Sea: it is seen as a small construction with cranes and drilling rigs in an expanse of smooth but dark grey sea which stretches to the horizon; the sky is also grey, and cloudy

    Why unions are lobbying Labour over a ‘just transition’ to cleaner energy

  • Picture of a modern prefab building in a yard bearing the Harland & Wolff name and logo, with a huge yellow crane in the background

    Union warns of threat to Harland & Wolff jobs if Treasury vetoes £200m support

April 2024

  • A GMB sign saying 'official dispute' on the street outside the Amazon warehouse in Coventry

    GMB launches legal action against ‘out of control’ Amazon at Coventry warehouse

    Employment tribunal sought over claims firm tried to induce workers to leave union in long-running row
  • Aerial view of Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelwork

    Tata Steel rejects union plan to save jobs and keep Port Talbot furnace open

    Rejection of plan to keep one blast furnace open while building electric replacement ends hopes of avoiding as many as 2,800 job losses

    • ‘We’ve been taken for granted for too long’: equal pay strikes by women spread across Scotland

    • GMB accused of ‘bullyboy tactics’ in alleged attempt to take over TSSA

    • One in three UK water workers verbally abused amid sewage fury, GMB finds

February 2024

  • Frances Stojilkovic campaigned for 18 years for equal pay, specifically about compensation given to women who had been paid less than men for years Photographed outside city chambers in Glasgow, in George Square

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘They were dying, and they’d not had their money’: Britain’s multibillion-pound equal pay scandal – podcast

    In 2005, Glasgow council offered to compensate women for historic pay inequality. But it sold them short again – and soon workers all over the UK started fighting for what they were owed. By Samira Shackle
  • Picket line at Amazon in Coventry

    Amazon accused of using ‘union-busting’ tactics at Midlands warehouses

    Claim comes as GMB union prepares for three days of strike action at tech company’s Coventry warehouse
  • Gary Smith, general secretary of the GMB union, with Ambulance workers at a picket line in Bishop Auckland

    GMB members support ballot on strike action over alleged bullying within union

    Union has been implementing recommendations of 2020 independent report that found it institutionally sexist
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