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GMB workers on strike at Dewar's in Glasgow
Scotland / 5 May 2026
5 May 2026
British Medical Association (BMA) staff on the GMB picket line outside BMA House, in Tavistock Square, London, March 27, 2026
Britain / 16 April 2026
16 April 2026
Daniel Kebede general secretary, National Education Union (NEU) at the NEU conference at the Brighton Centre, East Sussex, March 30, 2026
NEU Conference 2026 / 2 April 2026
2 April 2026
Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales
Britain / 19 March 2026
19 March 2026
Workers' Rights / 17 March 2026
17 March 2026
Workers' Rights / 13 March 2026
13 March 2026
Clydebank TUC members and supporters protest outside West Dumbartonshire Council offices in Dumbarton, March 4, 2026
Workers' Rights / 4 March 2026
4 March 2026
Workers' Rights / 13 February 2026
13 February 2026
Workers' Rights / 12 February 2026
12 February 2026
Healthcare / 27 January 2026
27 January 2026
TSSA general secretary Maryam Eslamdoust
Unions / 19 January 2026
19 January 2026
Workers' Rights / 16 January 2026
16 January 2026
The annual Christmas Poultry Sale, including oven ready turkeys, geese, chickens and ducks, at the York Auction Centre, December 19, 2024
Workers' Rights / 2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Parcels are processed and prepared for dispatch at Amazon's Fulfilment Centre at Kingston Park in Peterborough, November 15, 2017
Workers' Rights / 28 November 2025
28 November 2025
Britain / 27 November 2025
27 November 2025
Macallan
Industrial / 3 November 2025
3 November 2025
Workers' Rights / 31 October 2025
31 October 2025
Marx Memorial Library meeting
Features / 28 October 2025
28 October 2025

KELLIE O’DOWD reports on an event to highlight the GMB sisterhood

 

 

A tanker pumps out excess sewage from the Lightlands Lane sewage pumping station in Cookham, Berskhire which flooded after recent heavy rainfall, January 10, 2024
Environment / 23 October 2025
23 October 2025

Water companies record worst-ever environmental performance in England as serious pollution incidents increase by 60% in 2024, Environment Agency finds

Plastic models of a man and woman stand on a pile of coins
Workers' Rights / 14 October 2025
14 October 2025
Workers' Rights / 8 October 2025
8 October 2025
an Accident and Emergency sign
Healthcare / 19 September 2025
19 September 2025

‘Best way to deliver reform and a fair pay award is for government to negotiate directly with trade unions,’ RCN says

Passengers onboard a Calmac ferry
Workers' Rights / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025
Fighting for the future of ceramics in Britain
TUC Congress 2025 / 9 September 2025
9 September 2025

CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits

Workers' Rights / 18 August 2025
18 August 2025
Sellafield Nuclear Plant in Seascale, Cumbria, November 16, 2010
Workers' Rights / 14 August 2025
14 August 2025
A Tesco Extra store
Workers' Rights / 7 August 2025
7 August 2025
A BidFood lorry
Britain / 24 July 2025
24 July 2025
Workers' Rights / 24 July 2025
24 July 2025
The Asda sign
Workers' Rights / 7 July 2025
7 July 2025
Workers' Rights / 2 July 2025
2 July 2025
Workers' Rights / 26 June 2025
26 June 2025
Workers' Rights / 10 June 2025
10 June 2025
A police car burns as officers are deployed on the streets of Hartlepool following a violent protest, July 31, 2024
GMB Conference 2025 / 10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Members of the GMB union on the picket line outside the Amazon fulfilment centre in Coventry, November 7, 2023
Interview / 11 June 2025
11 June 2025

The GMB general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko at the union’s annual conference in Brighton

A tanker from Thames Water
Thames Water / 3 June 2025
3 June 2025
Members of the UNISON, GMB, Unite and the EIS trade unions protest outside City Chambers, George Square, Glasgow, calling on the city's politicians to refuse to make any further cuts by setting a one year no-cuts budget, February 2025
STUC Congress / 26 April 2025
26 April 2025

Congress can chart a bold course that will force meaningful transformation for the people of Scotland

Union members on the picket line outside Scottish Water's scientific services department at Juniper House in Edinburgh, as Scottish Water workers go on strike in a dispute over pay and grading, April 22, 2025
Britain / 22 April 2025
22 April 2025
The hands of an elderly woman
Britain / 28 March 2025
28 March 2025
Pickets at Shieldhall Waterworks, Govan
Britain / 28 March 2025
28 March 2025
School children in a classroom
Features / 12 March 2025
12 March 2025
Despite caring for vulnerable children and often covering classes, support staff remain undervalued, with some earning less than supermarket workers — but GMB’s campaigning offers new hope, argues DONNA SPICER
Britain / 3 March 2025
3 March 2025
A household water tap
Britain / 18 February 2025
18 February 2025
Britain / 17 February 2025
17 February 2025
Strikers march to Glasgow Council's city chambers for a mass
Britain / 13 February 2025
13 February 2025
A plane flies past a
Britain / 26 January 2025
26 January 2025
Britain / 21 January 2025
21 January 2025
A view of parking charges at Buckland Hospital in Dover, Ken
Britain / 21 December 2024
21 December 2024
Britain / 20 December 2024
20 December 2024
Workers in the hall during a visit by Scottish Labour leader
Britain / 19 December 2024
19 December 2024
TAKING ON A GIANT: (Left to right) Louveza Iqbal,  Tyehimba
Features / 7 December 2024
7 December 2024
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko reports on an event detailing GMB's campaign to unionise the Coventry warehouse addressed by regional organiser FERDOUSARA UDDIN and Amazon worker LOUVEZA IQBAL
Britain / 5 December 2024
5 December 2024
Britain / 3 December 2024
3 December 2024
Defence Secretary John Healey leaves 10 Downing Street, Lond
Britain / 2 December 2024
2 December 2024
Britain / 29 November 2024
29 November 2024
Britain / 28 November 2024
28 November 2024
A general view of medical equipment on a NHS hospital ward a
Editorial: / 26 November 2024
26 November 2024
A man carrying bags in the Broadmead shopping area of Bristo
Britain / 19 November 2024
19 November 2024
Britain / 14 November 2024
14 November 2024
Britain / 14 November 2024
14 November 2024
Workers from Tata's Port Talbot steelworks gather at College
Britain / 28 October 2024
28 October 2024
An Uber car
Britain / 16 October 2024
16 October 2024
A general view of main generator 1, at the Sizewell nuclear
Britain / 13 October 2024
13 October 2024
A tanker pumping out excess sewage from the Lightlands Lane
Britain / 8 October 2024
8 October 2024
Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales
Britain / 30 September 2024
30 September 2024
General view of the Cammell Laird ship yard on the River Mer
Britain / 24 September 2024
24 September 2024
Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales
Britain / 11 September 2024
11 September 2024
General view of an Asda sign at the supermarket's head offic
Britain / 9 September 2024
9 September 2024
Britain / 2 September 2024
2 September 2024
Britain / 30 August 2024
30 August 2024
Britain / 12 August 2024
12 August 2024
Amazon staff members on a GMB union picket line outside the
Features / 22 July 2024
22 July 2024
Despite falling short of union recognition, workers’ courage and community solidarity have set a powerful precedent for organising in hostile environments, argues PHIL STREET
Amazon staff members on a GMB union picket line outside the
Britain / 17 July 2024
17 July 2024
GMB pledges legal challenge over retail giant’s union-busting tactics
Overflowing bins on the streets of Edinburgh where cleansing
Britain / 2 July 2024
2 July 2024
Amazon staff members on a GMB union picket line outside the
Britain / 19 June 2024
19 June 2024
Features / 17 June 2024
17 June 2024
Cardiff teacher MATT FLAMENCO pledges solidarity to the Port Talbot strikers, warning that losing vital industries will blight already struggling communities and shatter the futures of the classroom’s most vulnerable children
A Jobcentre Plus sign, September 16, 2014
Britain / 16 June 2024
16 June 2024
GMB general secretary Gary Smith
Interview: / 13 June 2024
13 June 2024
As GMB conference meets in Bournemouth, its general secretary GARY SMITH speaks to the Morning Star
Fujitsu UK head office in Bracknell, January 16, 2024
GMB Conference 2024 / 12 June 2024
12 June 2024
GMB Conference 2024 / 12 June 2024
12 June 2024
From left, Feargal Sharkey, Colin Skellett, Jason Evans, Dea
GMB Conference 2024 / 11 June 2024
11 June 2024
Members of the GMB union on the picket line outside the Amaz
GMB Conference 2024 / 11 June 2024
11 June 2024
Amazon's union-busting exposes statutory union recognition as ‘not fit for purpose’
GMB Conference 2024 / 10 June 2024
10 June 2024
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer making a speech in Grays, E
GMB Conference 2024 / 10 June 2024
10 June 2024
Ambulances outside London Ambulance Service NHS Trust contro
GMB Conference 2024 / 10 June 2024
10 June 2024
GMB Conference 2024 / 10 June 2024
10 June 2024
RESOLUTE: GMB ambulance workers in Shropshire on strike last
Features / 10 June 2024
10 June 2024
Far from being ‘more efficient’ and providing ‘choice,’ privateers taking over the public sector have worsened service delivery, and workers rights’ have been utterly compromised on the altar of corporate greed, warns HELEN O’CONNOR
GMB Conference 2024 / 10 June 2024
10 June 2024
Delegate Cliff Roney moves a motion to scrap water regulator
GMB Conference 2024 / 9 June 2024
9 June 2024
Members of the GMB union on the picket line stand in front o
GMB Conference 2024 / 9 June 2024
9 June 2024
Tyehimba Nosakhere
Interview / 8 June 2024
8 June 2024
Ben Chacko talks to TYEHIMBA NOSAKHERE, co-author of a new GMB-produced book about the incredible stories of trailblazers for racial equality
Britain / 4 June 2024
4 June 2024
The picket line outside the Princess Royal hospital
Features / 30 May 2024
30 May 2024
Outsourced workers at Princess Royal hospital are fighting back against appalling treatment by their employer, ISS. They deserve our full support, writes HELEN O’CONNOR
Workers in Sri Lanka give their solidarity to workers in Bri
Features / 27 May 2024
27 May 2024
SAFIEH KABIR tells the inspiring story of the solidarity that has emerged between British Asda workers and the Sri Lankan workers who produce the garments they sell
A Job Centre Plus shop in central Portsmouth, Hampshire, Feb
Britain / 20 May 2024
20 May 2024
School children during class at a primary school, November 2
Britain / 15 May 2024
15 May 2024
Features / 13 May 2024
13 May 2024
STUART RICHARDS explains why 1,500 GMB members at 35 Birmingham schools are going on strike after council bosses failed to tackle the equal pay crisis honestly
Features / 1 May 2024
1 May 2024
Dedicated staff at Epsom and St Helier NHS are taking strike action over unjust pay practices – they deserve our full solidarity as they stand up for their rights, says HELEN O’CONNOR
Britain / 26 April 2024
26 April 2024
The entrance to a Jobcentre Plus, September 16, 2014
Britain / 24 April 2024
24 April 2024
FIGHTING BACK: Ambulance staff at St Heliers in Epsom
Features / 24 April 2024
24 April 2024
A four-day strike by NHS patient transport workers represents a sticking point over their growing anger at not being on the same pay system as their colleagues, BERNY TORRE reports
A tanker pumps out excess sewage from the Lightlands Lane se
Britain / 22 April 2024
22 April 2024
People walk through Chamberlain Square by Birmingham Town Ha
Britain / 22 April 2024
22 April 2024
Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales
Britain / 16 April 2024
16 April 2024
A paramedic having a drink, as she waits in an ambulance out
Britain / 10 April 2024
10 April 2024
Britain / 5 April 2024
5 April 2024
Britain / 17 March 2024
17 March 2024
Trade unions, including Unison, GMB, Unite and the EIS, prot
Britain / 7 March 2024
7 March 2024
Members of the GMB union who work at Amazon picket outside t
Britain / 5 March 2024
5 March 2024
General view of an Asda sign at the supermarket's head offic
Britain / 26 February 2024
26 February 2024
Public message on a screen at bus stop on East Bridge Street
World / 23 February 2024
23 February 2024
Britain / 22 February 2024
22 February 2024
Hospital workers on strike outside the Princess Royal Hospit
Britain / 16 February 2024
16 February 2024
Trade unions, including UNISON, GMB, Unite and the EIS, prot
Britain / 14 February 2024
14 February 2024
An Asda sign at the store in Leyton, east London, February 1
Britain / 8 February 2024
8 February 2024
Students sitting an exam
Britain / 31 January 2024
31 January 2024
Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales, Septembe
Britain / 19 January 2024
19 January 2024
A steel worker wearing a badge on his jacket outside the UK'
Britain / 18 January 2024
18 January 2024
Victoria Square, Birmingham, September 20, 2023
Britain / 17 January 2024
17 January 2024
Amazon staff members on a GMB union picket line outside the
Britain / 24 November 2023
24 November 2023
A worker at HS2's Curzon Street site in Birmingham, May 10,
Britain / 29 September 2023
29 September 2023
Campaigners take part in a Stop Rosebank emergency protest o
Britain / 27 September 2023
27 September 2023
The fight against the newly approved Rosebank oil field ‘is not over’, environmental campaigners warn
School support workers, who are members of Unison, on the pi
Britain / 26 September 2023
26 September 2023
Britain / 22 September 2023
22 September 2023
The Denso Marston picket line near Baildon, where GMB member
Britain / 19 September 2023
19 September 2023
Britain / 18 September 2023
18 September 2023
An ambulance outside Doncaster Royal Infirmary in Yorkshire,
Britain / 10 September 2023
10 September 2023
A general view of a Wilko store in Northampton, Northamptons
Britain / 24 August 2023
24 August 2023
General secretary of the Trades Union Congress Paul Nowak
Britain / 10 August 2023
10 August 2023
‘Bringing in agency staff to deliver important services in place of strikers risks endangering public safety, worsening disputes and poisoning industrial relations,’ TUC says
Amazon workers and their supporters outside the company’s
Editorial / 6 August 2023
6 August 2023
Britain / 3 August 2023
3 August 2023
A Wilko store on Cheltenham high street
Britain / 3 August 2023
3 August 2023
Britain / 26 June 2023
26 June 2023
Ministry of Justice urged to intervene to stop a catastrophic breakdown of the service
UPSURGE: A PCS on the picket line in May this year
Features / 20 June 2023
20 June 2023
Former head of organising at GMB MARTIN SMITH puts forward eight principles to capitalise on the current wave of militancy
GMB member and Glasgow Apple worker William Gibson (secnd fr
Britain / 7 June 2023
7 June 2023
But, Glasgow Apple Store workers tell GMB conference that young workers ‘often lack the knowledge of how to organise’
Members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) on
Features / 6 June 2023
6 June 2023
SHABBIR LAKHA introduces an upcoming conference looking at turning the past year's explosion of industrial unrest and massive public support into political victories for the working class
Britain / 5 June 2023
5 June 2023
GMB union calls for public ownership of social care system
A preschool age child playing with plastic building blocks
Britain / 5 June 2023
5 June 2023
GMB members overwhelmingly back a motion at the union's 2023 congress demanding ‘free quality childcare for all parents to ensure work is affordable’
GMB national president Barbara Plant addresses a fringe meet
Britain / 5 June 2023
5 June 2023
‘The reason women don’t come forward is because they don’t think they’ll be believed,’ GMB national president Barbara Plant says
GMB General Secretary Gary Smith addresses delegates at the
Britain / 4 June 2023
4 June 2023
NHS workers on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital,
Britain / 15 May 2023
15 May 2023
Royal College of Nursing demands government ministers reopen pay talks after members rejected the latest below-inflation deal in England
GROWING CONFIDENCE: Ambulance workers from the GMB gather on
Features / 7 May 2023
7 May 2023
Although there have been setbacks in healthcare organising, nurses and other NHS workers are becoming more active and engaged in their trade unions and this is still a beacon of hope, says HELEN O’CONNOR
Members of the GMB union on the picket line outside the Amaz
Britain / 5 May 2023
5 May 2023
Unite union general secretary Sharon Graham (centre), joins
Britain / 28 April 2023
28 April 2023
MOVEMENT: People take part in the People’s Assembly Britai
Features / 16 April 2023
16 April 2023
Examining the Labour Party’s history – and the reasons for its survival as an entity – give important insights into the best strategy for the future, argues VINCE MILLS
Britain / 23 March 2023
23 March 2023
Members of the GMB union during a rally outside the Amazon f
13 March 2023
13 March 2023
Workers have started a week-long strike at the notoriously anti-union multibillion-dollar company’s Coventry warehouse. PHIL STREET reports
UNITY: GMB members on the picket line outside the ambulance
Features / 10 March 2023
10 March 2023
The government’s minimum service levels Bill is an attempt to curb our human right to express ourselves and our opinions – it must be resisted, writes RUTH BRADY
Workers on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital in Lo
Britain / 17 February 2023
17 February 2023
Britain / 16 February 2023
16 February 2023
The GMB picket line at Goole Ambulance station
Britain / 6 February 2023
6 February 2023