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- GMB Ballot at Diageo
- GMB Scotland Media Statement: Sturrock Review into NHS Highland Bullying
- Don't Play "Fast and Loose" with Trident Jobs
- Protest over Bute dementia care cuts
- Pitchford Inquiry must cover Scottish blacklisting
- Scottish Labour Leadership Election 2017
- Strike Action Looms At XPO Logistics Over ‘Shameful List’ Of Attacks On Staff Conditions
- GMB Scotland Media Statement: Key Worker Payment Campaign
- GMB Comments on Trident Vote
- GMB Scotland Media Statement: Neart na Gaoithe Project
- Care workers open letter calls on Scottish Government to “listen and learn” over PPE crisis
- Keep Trident in Scotland
- BiFab Joint Trade Union Media Statement
- GMB Scotland Calls for Political Intervention to Save Dundee Swimming
- First Minister’s response on social care safety will not reassure frontline workers
- GMB welcomes Ferrybridge plant construction
- GMB Scotland Media Statement
- GMB Day of Action against ISS
- GMB Scotland Statement On Behalf of The Sweeney Family
- GMB Scotland ballot North Lanarkshire cleansing staff
- Diageo Directors ‘Shifting The Goal Posts’ On Workers’ Pay Offer As Strike Looms
- Diageo Scottish strike the consequence of ‘insatiable corporate greed’
- On Brexit Cliff Edge
- Midnight Strike Action Looms At Crucial M&S Supplier Over ‘Derisory’ 6 Pence Pay Offer
- GMB and Unite Scotland Media Statement
- Industrial action ballot at North Lanarkshire Council
- Strike Action Looming At Motherwell Manufacturer Over ‘Derisory’ Pay Imposition
- GMB Scotland Warns Diageo To “Get Real” Or Face Strike Action
- Diageo Need To Get Real On Their Workers' Pay
- GMB Scotland Warns Abandoning Domestic Gas Production Risks The National Interest
- GMB Calls On Dundee City And Angus Councils To End ‘Two-Tier School Meals’ Across Tayside
- GMB Scotland Statement: Scottish Social Care Sector
- GMB Members ‘Overwhelmingly’ Reject Local Government Pay Offer
- Ensure Scotland's navy vessel work
- GMB Scotland Media Calling Notice - Bakkavor Strike Action
- GMB Scotland Media Statement
- GMB Scotland Calling Notice
- GMB Scotland Media Statement – Suspension of Councillor Frank Anderson
- Scottish Prisoner Custody Officers Launch Strike Ballot Over Pay Imposition
- MSP Staff Threaten Holyrood Walk-Out Over Pay
- BiFab Joint Trade Unions Media Statement
- Mossmorran Gas Plant Walkout Resolved After Positive Discussions
- Highland Council Pupil Support Staff Vote Overwhelmingly For Strike Ballot Against Service ‘Stealth Cuts’
- Havelock International - GMB Statement
- Wood Group Contractors Take Industrial Action At GlaxoSmithKline Over Pay Inequality
- GMB Scotland Media Statement Whisky & Spirits
- ‘Scandal Hit’ Prisoner Custody Contractor Cancels 100 Trade Union Memberships Over Pay And Conditions Dispute
- Minister urged to reveal legal advice over decision to walk away from BiFab
- GMB Welcomes Scottish Government Nationalisation Of Port Glasgow Shipbuilders
- GMB Scotland Media Statement
- Christmas Food Shortage Threat At Morrisons As Strike Ballot Gets Underway At XPO
- “Priorities Are All Wrong” GMB Slams £100 Million Security Costs For Glasgow COP26
- GMB Warns Just Transition Commission To Face Up To “Hard Truths” On Renewables Jobs & Subsidies Failure
- GMB Scotland Statement On The Collapse Of Flybe
- Strike In NHS Scotland
- GMB Warns COSLA: ‘Vital Services Cannot Run Without Staff – Make Work Pay For Them’
- Strike Ballot Gets Under Way To ‘Defend Dundee’ From Council Cuts Imposition
- GMB To Warn Renewables Summit: Jobs Losses Scandal Must Stop
- GMB Slams Scottish Greens “Self-Indulgence” Over Cuts Budget Deal
- Joint Trade Union Statement (GMB Scotland & Unite Scotland)
- Joint Trade Union Statement (GMB Scotland & Unite Scotland): BiFab Administration
- Staff strike for fairness at care homes
- Glasgow’s Striking Equal Pay Women to March for Justice
- Industrial Action Looms At Bakkavor
- GMB Proud To Host Ex-Footballer Leroy Rosenior Scottish Book Launch
- Total Contempt For Tannoy Workers
- GMB Taxi Drivers Demand Fair Deal
- Jobs Under Threat For GMB Scotland Members At Cordia
- Drinks Giant Strike Ballot Launched
- Diageo Pensions Talk Forbidden
- Royal Navy Frigate Go-Ahead
- Campaign To Save South Lodge And Hillcrest Care Homes
- Diageo’s £10 Million Painting Auction
- MSP Call For Diageo To Reverse Pension Cuts Plan
- Orkney Islands Council ‘Draconian’ Cuts Proposals
- University Catering Contract Extension ‘First Step Towards Doing The Right Thing’
- MP Calls For Pension Cuts Reversal
- OIC Cuts Staff Tell Local Politicians: “Walk A Mile With Me”
- GMB Calls For Government Investment In North Sea Decommissioning
- Strike Action Imminent In Dispute Over Diageo Pension Cuts
- UK Government Must ‘Move At Pace’ On RFA Contracts
- GMB Welcomes Orkney Consultation Plan
- NAC Contractor Mitie Makes It 2-In-A-Row For GMB ‘Christmas Scrooge’ Award
- GMB Slams ‘Callous’ Contractor
- Demoralised Dundee Greenkeepers Call For Clarity
- GMB Recognition At Historic Lower Clyde Shipyard
- Tannoy Owner Urged To ‘Come Clean For Christmas’
- Clarification Needed Over Future Of Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers
- Members Vote to Accept COSLA Offer on Local Authority Pay
- Caithness Ambulance Funding
- Strike ballot looms at Thompsons Scotland
- Single NHS Region Loses 198 Thousand Hours To Mental Health Issues In A Single Year
- GDP Figures A Wake Up Call For A Scottish Political Elite
- GMB Calls For Clarity Over North Lanarkshire Council Jobs Cuts
- Scotland needs a balanced energy strategy, says GMB
- GMB Calls On Diageo To Recognise And Reward Workers
- Strike Ballot Looms At Dounreay Nuclear Site
- Holocaust Memorial Day 2017
- GMB Urges HC To Approve Whyte & Mackay Energy Overhaul
- Economy ‘On Brink Of Crisis’
- GMB Calls On Dundee Leisure Bosses To ‘Come Clean’ Over Greenkeepers’ Future
- Politicians ‘Must Pull Together’
- Angus Home Carers Gagged By Council Chiefs
- Claims Lodged For Cordia Home Care Staff
- Gagged!
- £20 Million Glasgow Funding
- £5 Billion Whisky Industry Must Be Protected
- GMB Scotland Janitors In Cordia Reject Service Cluster Reforms
- SRtRC’s New Office Launch
- Ambulance Cuts Plan ‘Totally Unsustainable’
- Privatisation Of Historic Dundee Golf Courses Confirmed
- GMB Reiterates Call To Protect Whisky Industry
- Whisky Workers Seek Honest Answers
- Defence Of Scottish Jobs
- Greenkeepers: Sign Up To Privatisation Or Face The Sack
- Ayrshire Councils Pay A Staggering £32 Million A Year To Private Companies
- GMB Scotland Members At South Ayrshire Council Tell Politicians ‘Enough Is Enough’
- UK government accused of ‘gross betrayal’ as Diageo confirm over 100 job cuts over Brexit
- An Affordable And Prosperous Energy Future Without Gas Is Pie In The Sky Politics
- GMB Scotland Welcomes ‘Sensible’ Fracking Intervention By UKOOG
- Glasgow’s Waste Crisis
- GMB Scotland tells COSLA there should be ‘no delay’ on council pay award
- NLC Plan Over 190 Classroom Assistant Cuts
- Statement from Gary Smith, GMB Scotland Secretary
- Don’t Risk Affordability, Prosperity And Security In Low-Carbon Energy Drive
- GMB Scotland Proud To Support ‘Wear Red’ Anti-Racism Drive
- Fife Council Workers Exposed To Deadly Asbestos
- Court of Session Judgment Paves the Way for Equal Pay Justice in Glasgow City Council
- Be Honest About A Future Without Domestic Gas Production
- GMB Calls For Urgent COSLA Talks
- GMB Scotland Statement
- GMB welcomes agreement to implement Scottish local government pay deal
- Football legends, campaigners and unions join the call to say, ‘We have more in common’
- GMB Calls For Political Intervention Over Trade Union Recognition Fight
- GMB Members Jobs Threatened at Glensanda Quarry Argyll
- GMB Calls For Reassurances Over Long-Term Future Of Historic Glasgow Biscuit Manufacturer
- ‘Utter Contempt’ Shown By Construction Giant To Social Dumping Fears
- Strike Action Looms Over Pay Inequality At Chivas Bottling Plant
- GMB Scotland Proud to Celebrate Glasgow Pride 2017
- Police Scotland Cleaners Fight For Living Wage
- GMB Urges Council To End ‘Scandalous’ £1,000 School Cleaner Pay Gap
- Scottish Government Fracking Ban
- UK Government shipbuilding strategy without RFA contracts will create ‘dog eat dog’ competition
- GMB says Equal Pay claimants have been ‘failed by every branch of government’
- GMB Scotland proud to support Show Racism the Red Card’s Wear Red Day 2017
- GMB calls on council to lift ‘threat to appeal’ court decision on equal pay
- ‘Labour Cannot Play Fast And Loose’ With Defence And Energy Jobs
- GMB warns industrial action at nuclear stations could lead to Christmas power shortages
- ‘Appalling’ Working Conditions On G4S Prisons Contract
- Glasgow Equal Pay
- GMB Slams ‘Mincemeat Factory’ Registrar Over Care Workers’ Rights
- Give Me Five Campaign
- GMB Scotland extends deepest condolences following the passing of GMB & Labour Party colleague, Frank Doran
- GMB Slams Dundee Joint Board ‘Hatchet Job’ On Home Care Staff Contracts
- GMB Calls On Government And Industry Stakeholders To ‘Battle For BiFab’
- Bifab Trade Unions Call On Scottish Government To Settle Contractor Dispute And Save Yards
- BiFab Joint Trade Union Calling Notice - Battle for BiFab March & Rally
- reform plans could pile further pressure on support staff
- Trade Unions Hail Deal To Save Bifab Yards & Secure Jobs
- New Year strikes loom at Dounreay as GMB launches ballot over ‘derisory’ pay offer
- Confederation of Shipbuilding & Engineering Unions (CSEU) Scotland Press Release
- New Brexit Report Signals Bleak Prospects For Jobs
- GMB Drivers At DPD To Stage Protest Over Pay Cuts And Enforced Hours
- Scottish Government must ‘rise to the challenge’ on local government pay
- Court of Session Denies Glasgow City Council Equal Pay Appeal
- GMB Calls For ‘Recognition And Respect’
- GCC Decision On Equal Pay Appeal Clears The Way For Justice To Be Delivered
- GMB Starts Legal Proceedings Against Fife Council Over Outstanding Equal Pay Awards
- GMB Says ‘There Is Still Hope But Time Is Of The Essence’ In Battle For Bifab
- GMB Scotland Wins Landmark Appeal Against Scottish Social Services Council
- Renfrew Workshop Re-Opening ‘Badly Tainted’ By Doosan Undercutting Of Construction Agreement
- GMB Demands ‘Immediate Action’ From North Lanarkshire Council Over Equal Pay Pension Compensation
- GMB Says UK Gas Shortage Warning ‘A Sobering Reminder’ About Need For Domestic Gas Production
- GMB Warns: Safety And Rights Of Public Servants Must Not Be Compromised During Cold Front
- Scotland for Sale: GMB warns UK Government against dropping Scotch whisky’s protected status
- GMB Slams Private Care Firm’s ‘Dickensian’ Wage Grab On Low-Paid Staff
- GMB makes last ditch plea to save Perth’s only publicly owned care home
- GMB Invites Locals to ‘Help Find Council Cuts Leader’ at Balloch Easter Hunt
- GMB Seeks Urgent Talks With ASDA Over £10 billion Sainsbury’s Merger
- GMB Will Urge Council Staff To Reject ‘Unacceptable’ COSLA Pay Offer
- BiFab Trade Unions Welcome BiFab Deal
- Beechgrove Staff Will ‘Fight Tooth And Nail’ To Save Perth’s Last Public Care Home
- ‘Enough Is Enough’ - East Dunbartonshire Council Staff To Strike
- GMB Backs Calls For Sutherland Satellite Launch Facility
- ‘Safe - For Now’, GMB Says ASDA Jobs Assurances Offer Worried Staff ‘No Comfort’
- GMB Scotland & Unite Scotland Joint Trade Union Statement
- GMB Urges Scottish Council Staff To Reject ‘Unfair And Unacceptable’ Pay Offer
- Heathrow Expansion ‘Good News’ For Scotland
- Falcon Foodservice Equipment Strike
- Council Workers Deliver ‘Resounding’ Rejection Of ‘Unfair’ Local Government Pay Offer
- GMB Warns Fife Council
- When The Rubbish Piles Up Blame ‘Coward’ Councillors
- Strike Threat Lifted In East Dunbartonshire As Council Begin Cuts Climb-Down
- Ahead Of Trump’s Visit, GMB Tells UK Government:
- 'Dark Day' For Scottish Economy As BiFab Yards ‘Effectively Close’ Following Latest Redundancies
- Joint Unions Statement - BiFab
- GMB Scotland members' hard work leads to bumper profits in Diageo
- Joint Unions Statement - BiFab Update
- 100 Recycling Jobs Threatened by Social Enterprise Liquidation
- Members in Bakkavor/Caledonian Produce Vote on Strike Action Over Poverty Pay
- GMB Serve Strike Ballot Notice In Cordia As Equal Pay Talks Collapse
- GMB Members Reject NHS Scotland Unfair And Unequal Pay Offer
- Ayrshire’s “Second-class” School Cleaners Take to Streets in Campaign to Win Living Wage
- GMB Slams‘Shameful’ £3.7 Billion Diageo’s Below Inflation Pay Threat On Scottish Workers
- GMB Members Tell Council Bosses To ‘Do More For The Lowest Paid’ Ahead Of Lobby
- GMB Calls On Councils To ‘Do The Right Thing’
- Impending Strike Lifted In East Dunbartonshire
- INEOS £60 Million Expansion Under Construction Sector Agreement
- “Enough Is Enough!”
- Diageo Workers Reject Below Inflation Pay Offer Ahead Of AGM
- Glasgow Workers Serve Strike Notice On Glasgow City Council Over Equal Pay Scandal
- GMB Scotland Statement - Equal Pay Glasgow City Council
- GMB Scotland Statement
- GMB Scotland Calls For SNP Leader Intervention Over Anti-Semitic Online Attack
- UPDATED - GMB Scotland Statement
- GMB Warns MSPs To ‘Stop Playing Fast And Loose’ With Energy Sector Employment
- GMB Welcomes ‘Significant Moment’ As Agreement Reached Over Equal Pay
- GMB Scotland and the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities Mark Holocaust Memorial Day
- GMB Warns North Lanarkshire Council Over Equal Pay
- Rosyth Redundancies Stress ‘Urgent Need’ For RFA Contract Award To UK Shipyards
- Glasgow Equal Pay – Celebration For Our Women, Reflection For Our Union
- GMB Welcomes Withdrawal Of ‘Pay-Cut Proposals’ For Ambulance And NHS Staff
- BiFab Joint Trade Union Press Release
- GMB Responds to NHS Highland Chair Resignation
- GMB Slams North Lanarkshire Council’s ‘Shameful’ Cuts To Janitorial Staff Jobs And Pay
- Unions Call For ‘Level Playing Field’ As Scotland Loses Bulk Of £2.8 Billion Offshore Renewables Contracts
- Ahead of strike ballot, GMB calls on Dundee City Council to step back from ‘horror show’ home care cuts
- Home Carers ‘Win Battle For Hearts And Minds’ In Dundee
- GMB Tells ISS: “Pay What You Owe!”
- Joint Trade Union media Statement – GMB & Unite Scotland
- GMB Scotland Calls For Burton's Biscuits To "Act Now" And Protect Vulnerable Staff
- Home Carers “Put To The Back Of The Queue” Start Ballot
- Staff At Clydebank Engineering Firm Consulted On Action Against 50p Pay Offer
- Equal Pay Hasn’t Gone Away
- Scottish Economy Cannot Do Without Navy Shipbuilding Contracts
- GMB NHS Pay Offer Consultative Ballot Result
- ASDA Retail Pay Rise
- GMB urges ISS to ‘finally do the right thing’ and return hospital staff wages ahead of crunch talks
- GMB Ballots For Strike At Drax
- GMB Members in Scottish Local Government Vote to Accept Pay Offer
- Strike action looms at COVID vaccine logistics firm over key worker pay
- Strike threat to frigate manufacturing at BAE
- NHS Scotland & Scottish Ambulance Service Strike Ballot Result
- GMB: We must let Scotland make again
- GMB jobs call backed by Labour leader at STUC
- GMB Accuses NHS Lanarkshire Of “Washing Its Hands” Of PFI Staff Following Wages Dispute
- Hairmyres Staff To Demo Over Unpaid Wages
- GMB Scotland Media Statement
- GMB Signs Union Recognition Agreement With Glasgow Biggest Lap Dancing Venue
- GMB Urges Council To Re-Think ‘Unworkable’ City Centre Parking Charges
- NHS Lanarkshire Wage Grab Contractor Told: “Pay What You Owe To Avoid Strike Action”
- GMB Backs Trade Bodies Call To End Whisky Tariffs
- Roads And Waste Workers “Forced To Strike” In West Lothian Council
- Scottish ambulance strikes suspended as GMB consults members
- Equal Pay Agreement Reached Between Unions And Glasgow City Council
- Scottish Ambulance Service Strike Dates
- Union Recognition Win for Apple Retail Workers in Glasgow
- GMB Scotland Media Statement
- Council Workers Parliament Demo As Fight For “Key Worker Payment” Continues
- GMB Warns Diageo Redundancies “Thin End Of The Wedge”
- McVitie’s Demo Holyrood
- First Minister Statement on COVID-19 Restrictions
- Cleaners Living Wage Fight On Upper Clyde Could Halt Royal Navy Frigate Build
- Union advises cleansing workers to prioritise safety and refuse self-isolation exemptions
- Diageo Annual Results
- National Care Service Consultation for Scotland
- GMB Scotland Media Statement: McVitie’s Tollcross
- Local Government Pay Offer
- SNP and Greens Power-Sharing Deal Reaction
- GMB Calls For Political Leadership To Settle Local Government Pay Dispute
- COP26 Strike Action To Go Ahead in Glasgow Cleansing
- Glasgow Cleansing Strikes Underway After Council Refuses “Industrial Relations” Reset
- GMB Scotland Media Call: Cleansing Strike & COP26 Activists Demo
- GMB Warns New Nuclear Power Programme Needed In Scotland As COP26 Gathers
- GMB calls for council leader to “step up or step aside”
- GMB urges Susan Aitken to use power for Glasgow’s lowest paid and end cleansing strike
- GMB warns anger over low pay isn’t going away
- Overwhelming support for new Glasgow strikes
- AMEY Glasgow Schools Rally - Pay Up for Key Workers
- First day of strikes in Glasgow secondary schools suspended
- Glasgow Secondary Schools Strikes Off
- ScotWind Leasing Announcement
- Scotland Must Bid For Rolls Royce Nuclear Reactor Jobs And Funding, GMB Tells Energy Minister
- GMB Scotland Calling Notice: Yodel Bellshill “Make Work Better” Rally
- GMB Scotland Media Statement: National Care Service
- New Equal Pay Dispute Looms In Glasgow
- GMB Home Carer To Urge Labour Conference
- Insulting Pay Offer Could Turn Cost-Of-Living Crisis Into A Catastrophe
- International Women’s Day 2022 #Breakthebias
- National Workforce Strategy for Health and Social Care Response
- Equal Pay Strikes in Glasgow City Council
- Council workers support industrial action
- Glasgow Equal Pay Strikes Suspended
- Strike action looms at Glasgow care home
- Council Strike Ballot
- GMB Scotland Media Statement: Scotrail 5 per cent pay offer reaction
- NHS Scotland 2022/23 Pay Offer Reaction
- Media Calling Notice
- Scotland National Care Service Bill
- GMB Warns of Waste Piles and School Closures
- Local Government Pay Talks
- GMB Issues strike notice for Edinburgh Waste & Recycling
- Reaction as no new pay offer tabled by COSLA
- New waste strikes a ‘direct response to political failure’ on council staff pay
- Industrial action threat grows in NHS Scotland
- COSLA Pay Update
- GMB warns ‘waste will pile up at the Edinburgh Festival’
- GMB Scotland Media Statement: Latest COSLA Proposals
- COSLA Pay Proposals Latest
- Strike dates confirmed for Glasgow and East Renfrewshire Schools
- GMB Scotland Media Statement - COSLA talks update
- Scotland braced for further strikes amid crisis talks over council pay offer
- Industrial action threat at Menstrie food manufacturer
- COSLA Pay Offer Response
- Frontline staff need a flat rate offer
- GMB tells Scottish Government: COSLA can do more
- GMB Scotland Media Statement: COSLA Pay Offer Latest
- Strikes get underway at Glenrothes offshore supply chain provider over ‘paltry pay’ offer
- NHS Scotland Pay Dispute Latest
- NHS Pay Dispute Latest
- Glasgow Apple workers welcome collective agreement
- Strike threat at whisky giants as workers balloted over shift allowance dispute
- Alcohol Advertising Ban Will Impact Jobs and Investment
- UK Budget Reaction – Spirits Duty Increase
- GMB members vote to accept NHS Scotland Pay Offer
- Glasgow HSCP Budget Cuts Reaction
- Hundreds of frontline staff back industrial action
- 2023/24 COSLA Pay Offer Reaction
- Joint Trade Unions Demand Job Security For City Of Edinburgh Council Workers
- GMB Scotland members strike at Ayrshire vitamin plant
- GMB Scotland members overwhelmingly reject councils’ pay offer
- Stop using shipyard workers as a political football
- GMB Scotland calls for urgent action to seize wind power opportunities
- GMB Scotland: Ambulance crews lose faith in management
- GMB Scotland urges Scottish Government to intervene on councils’ pay offer
- GMB Scotland members continue strike at vitamin plant
- Survey reveals four in five social care staff consider quitting
- Opinion: GMB Scotland Secretary urges action on escalating crisis in care
- GMB Scotland urges investment in Ferguson Marine
- GMB Scotland hails equal pay victory for home carers
- GMB Scotland fights for workers abandoned by famous bakery
- Council schools staff vote to strike for fair pay
- Glasgow City Council Parking Strike
- Strike Continues at Defence Equipment & Support (DES) in Beith
- Workers escalate strike action at defence supply complex
- Carers vote on industrial action to protect pay
- Scottish Water workers to vote on industrial action
- GMB Scotland warns of disruption when school staff strike
- FM hails care workers as home staff vote to strike
- Parking staff threaten disruption at big match
- Workers back industrial action at Scottish Water
- GMB welcomes £10bn agreement to build ships for Norwegian navy
- GMB slams Ferguson Marine Directors recognition rejection
- Home care workers call for protection after revealing terror on solo night shifts
- GMB: Stop electioneering and save Volvo jobs
- GMB: Rushed rundown of North Sea risks industrial calamity
- Strike Action In Diageo Suspended As New Offer Tabled
- GMB Responds To ‘Eye-Watering’ Diageo Profits
- GMB Scotland Media Statement - Social Care Staff Support Fund
- Media Calling Notice: GMB Scotland Local Government Key Worker Pay Demonstration
- GMB Warns Trump’s “Jobs Killer” Tariffs Threaten Whisky Jobs And Economic Recovery
- GMB Scotland Media Calling Notice
- GMB Calls For £15 An Hour Social Care Minimum Wage
- Union Responds to Scottish Government Statement on Ferguson Marine
- Programme For Government Reaction: Care Review “Welcome” But “Scepticism” On Green Jobs Promises
- Strikes To Start As Burton’s “Takes The Biscuit Again” Over “Derisory” Workers’ Pay Offer
- GMB Members Fight To “Make Work Better” At Burton’s Biscuits
- Government Must Recognise Value Of Low-Paid Key Workers
- “Action For Arnish” Jobs Campaign Launched
- Frontline Workers To Tell First Minister: “After The Applause, Pay Up For Key Workers”
- GMB Scotland Marks Ten Year Anniversary of the Equality Act: What Now for Women Workers?
- Supreme Court Decision on Heathrow Third Runway
- Huge Support For Action In Home Care Services
- Scottish Lockdown And Home Care Testing
- Five Days of Strike Action Set for British Gas Over ‘Fire and Rehire’ Plan
- Glasgow Home Carers To Ballot For Action
- Home Care COVID-19 Testing Roll-Out
- GMB Backs Sarwar for Scottish Labour Leader
- Diageo Interim Results
- Scottish Budget Reaction
- COVID-19 Education Response and School Support Staff
- Independent Review of Adult Social Care in Scotland Report
- GMB Launches Equal Pay Claims - Discriminatory Dundee City Council Bonus Scheme
- BiFab Joint Trade Unions Media Statement
- Care Union Calls On MSPs To Support £15 An Hour Social Care Minimum Wage
- Growing Support For £15 An Hour Minimum Wage For Carers
- Re-start of Care Home Visits
- HC-One Care Home Sales
- Suspension of Tariffs on Scotch Whisky
- Social Care Pay
- Gas Workers Launch Fresh Strikes As British Gas Refuse To Drop ‘Fire And Rehire'
- UK Government Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development & Foreign Policy
- Unions Launch Workplace Ballot At Scottish Water Over £3,000 Loss Of Pay
- British Gas Strike Dates 35, 36, 37 & 38
- ASDA Equal Pay
- ‘Crucial Moment’ For Global Workers’ Rights In Amazon As Unionisation Vote Closes
- GMB Tells Scottish Government To Go Further On NHS Pay As Rejection Recommended
- Glasgow Equal Pay Group
- Union Starts Strike Ballot in Chivas
- Key Workers Say: “We’re Worth More!”
- Crown Office Data On COVID-19 Care Home Deaths
- Strike Action Looms At Chivas As Whisky And Spirits Workers Vote Against Pay Freeze
- 30,000 New Steel Fabrication Jobs Needed
- Queens Speech Reaction
- GMB Brands Pladis Tollcross Closure Proposal “Utterly Shameful”
- McVitie’s Tollcross Closure Proposal Latest
- GMB Scotland Welcomes Which? Cash Friendly Pledge
- GMB Scotland Press for Proper Employment Status for HM Coastguard Rescue Workers
- Grid Decarbonisation Challenge Exposes Need For New Nuclear In Scotland
- GMB Scotland Media Calling Notice: “Our Factory, Our Future.” McVitie’s Tollcross Demo
- Joint Offshore Trade Unions Media Release
- Failure At All Levels Of Government
- GMB on North Sea future
- School staff reveal toll of violence in survey
- Dear First Minister: Community leaders unite to call for new future for Ferguson's
- MP backs striking housing staff after bedbug invasion
- Inverclyde leaders back workers to build a new future for Ferguson's
- Reclaim Our Lanes: GMB launches campaign for citywide deep clean
- GMB: Overhaul procurement rules to support Scots workers
- GMB urges Chancellor to freeze whisky duty
- Show us the plan: GMB on MPs' alarm over green energy jobs shortfall
- Parking attendants reveal surging threats and violence
- GMB sounds alarm over bin lorry fires blamed on batteries
- Workers urge MSPs to protect energy jobs to halt looming industrial calamity
- GMB urges chancellor to cut windfall tax to help avert oil and gas jobs catastrophe
- Poll: Nine out of ten oil and gas workers urge chancellor to axe windfall tax
- GMB Scotland warns rushed rundown of oil and gas threatens industrial calamity
- GMB Scotland: College staff reject unfair pay offer
- GMB Scotland calls for action not excuses to protect Ferguson Marine
- Call to overhaul defence spending after £200m Royal Navy contract goes Dutch
- Revealed: Faslane nuclear sub tugs may be built in China
- GMB: Looming spending cuts risk lifelines for most vulnerable
- Frontline carers forced out by 'harsh and unfair' shift changes
- Golf club boss finally compensates sacked greenkeeper after GMB campaign
- Superstore guards reveal daily toll of violence and abuse
- GMB Scotland: New contracts will secure bright future for Fergusons
- GMB: Women workers still being betrayed on equal pay
- GMB Scotland members prepare for first NHS strike in years
- Street cleaners vote on strikes after sudden depot switch
- GMB: Scotland needs ships and the skills to build them
- GMB: Halt absurd decision to block Fergusons from work
- Whisky workers to strike over holiday dispute
- Uber drivers on the brink as fuel price soars
- Whisky workers strike over holiday threat
- GMB Scotland heard loud and clear as Congress 2026 opens
- GMB Congress backs industrial strategy to let Scotland make again
- GMB Scotland calls for more protection for public sector workers
- Cycling Championship Chaos As GMB Plan Parking Protest
- GMB Scotland Slams ‘Shameful’ Cordia’s ‘Pay Cut By Post’ Plan
- GMB Scotland Calling Notice: #Askthe700 Public Awareness Campaign
- GMB slams government and industry ‘green jobs’ failure as more cuts announced at BiFab
- GMB Scotland Media Statement
- East Ayrshire Home Carers Coronavirus Risk As “Negligent” Council Fails To Provide PPE
- GMB Scotland & Unite Scotland - BiFab Joint Trade Union Media Statement
- GMB Scotland: Council workers must now get their money urgently
- ASDA Lines-Up Logistics Portfolio Sign-Off
- UK Government Solid Support Vessel Contract Competition
- GMB Union Elects Gary Smith As New General Secretary
- Cuts to Glasgow’s Community Payback Service
- Opinion: We must make our schools safe
- GMB Scotland members strike at Scottish Water
- GMB Scotland tells council leaders to stop hiding on equal pay
- Enough is enough: Nurses rally for fair pay after waiting years for decision on grades
- GMB Prepare For Strike At Military Munitions Depot
- Scottish Government Can't ‘Pass The Buck’ On Schools
- Give Catering Staff ‘Clarity For Christmas’
- Call for urgent action as hundreds of school staff are assaulted every day
- GMB Scotland calls for new future for Harland & Wolff yards
- GMB Scotland launches strike ballot at Scottish Water as talks falter
- Nurses launch first strike action in NHS Scotland for years
- Council workers vote on strikes to halt 'fire and rehire' in Aberdeen
- Strikes at Scottish Water as pay talks collapse
- Care workers to rally at Holyrood after five years of broken promises
- Workers and families unite to save lifeline care service
- Care home staff ‘abandoned and betrayed’ after Covid
- Care home staff rallying at Holyrood will meet ministers
- Ministers accused of abandoning care home staff during the pandemic
- Council workers ready to vote on strikes as pay offer looms
- Private care homes accused of risking staff and residents in lockdown
- A bust transition? Poll: Only one in five Scots believe renewables will create jobs
- Launch of Glen Rosa must herald a new era for Ferguson Marine
- Striking care workers rally as councils are warned not to scapegoat women
- Covid-19 Care Fatalities “Sad And Sobering” - GMB Warns Care Workers Are Being Failed
- Harland And Wolff Administration Announcement
- BiFab Unions Respond to Ministerial Statement
- Extinction Rebellion “Detached From Reality And Struggles Of Working People”
- Schools warned violence will drive out skilled and committed staff
- Overtime Ban Underway At Whisky Giant Chivas Ahead Of Crunch Pay Talks
- Strike Threat At Dumfries Manufacturer Over Pay-Cut Imposition On Key Workers
- GMB Members Reject Latest COSLA Pay Offer
- Dounreay workers vote on strike action after pay talks stall
- Christmas strikes loom at whisky giant
- Latest pay offer rejected as schools' strike looms
- Workers vote to strike for fair pay at Scottish Water
- Drinks industry workers: Minimum price hike will cost jobs
- Council shake-up risks lifeline support for Ukrainian refugees
- GMB Scotland: Overhaul Council Tax or scrap it to protect lifeline services
- GMB Scotland urges swift pay talks on council pay
- Victory at last as workers win £125,000
- Highland job losses expose sham of just transition
- Ministers urged to halt rise in minimum unit price of alcohol
- GMB Scotland calls for new urgency on renewables
- Support staff reveal toll of abuse and violence in Aberdeen schools
- How big rise in price of alcohol will penalise poorest Scots
- Ministers warned drive to Net Zero will fail without nuclear energy
- FM must intervene on equal pay or risk bankrupt councils
- NHS Scotland accused of risking lowest-paid workers in pandemic
- Undervalued council carers in Moray win fair pay at last
- Striking council carers call for fair pay not praise after glowing report
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