£6.5m a year to NSL from Enfield Council. Nine local jobs shipped out to Rochdale and Inverness in return. Inexcusable. We’re standing with our members to keep these roles in the borough. 👇 enfielddispatch.co.uk/trade-…

A machine can read a map. It cannot read a room, calm a frightened passenger or answer for its choices when something goes wrong. Uber and Wayve have secured the first licences for self-driving minicabs in London, 15 cars cleared to carry passengers this summer. For now a trained driver sits in every one, and that driver is the reason the car is safe to ride at all. The plan is to take them out. We will not pretend automation can be wished away. But no city is made safer by stripping out the people who keep it moving, and no driver should be quietly engineered out of a livelihood they have spent years building. Our message is simple. Keep drivers behind the wheel. #MembersFirst theguardian.com/technology/2…

A machine can plot a route. It can't replace the knowledge and human connection our drivers bring every day. 300,000 private hire jobs are on the line as robotaxis eye London. GMB is pressing the government to act. Read More👇 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Outsourced staff at Chase Farm Hospital are on strike. Cleaners, caterers and security staff, employed by ISS, working the same wards as NHS colleagues but not on the same terms. They raised a collective grievance over a year ago. ISS still haven't listened. 95% voted to reject the latest offer. Our members are asking for one thing: respect. ISS, get back round the table. #MembersFirst

GMB London stands with Ukraine’s nuclear workers. Regional committee member Dean Gilligan spoke outside the Russian embassy today alongside @UkraineSol demanding freedom for Denys Matsola and every worker jailed for refusing Russia’s forced contracts. #FreeDenysMatsola

Yes, Binster - Outsourcing in practice. 🚨 There’s been plenty of talk this past week about the state of outsourcing in Britain, including @pollytoynbee’s apt piece in the Guardian. theguardian.com/commentisfre… Behind the headlines are real people with real lives, facing real consequences. When an outsourced contract goes to a profit-making company, the first job of the winning bidder is to deliver ‘efficiencies’. Efficiencies come in all shapes and sizes. The most common? Cuts to terms, conditions, wage growth, pensions and people. The money saved rarely goes back into the service. It goes into private profit and leaves the public sector for good. The work piles up on fewer staff. The quality drops. Then a vicious cycle sets in. A revolving door of workers come and go, because the contracts don’t pay enough or offer sufficient hours to build a career on. Service quality falls further still. Counterintuitively, this is used as ‘evidence’ by many on the Right to prove that the state is crumbling and what is needed is: further efficiencies, further cuts, further privatisation. For those outsourcing the contract, whether an NHS hospital, local authority, or other public body, there is an additional incentive to outsource what is predominantly working class jobs; jobs which are done by those who are from disproportionately ethnic minorities. Namely, that outsourced workers do not appear in any public authority’s ethnicity pay gap reporting. Why solve the problem of ethnicity pay gaps when you can simply fudge the figures by deleting low-paid sections of your workforce from appearing as directly employed? So we applaud any politician willing to bring outsourced contracts back in-house. In many instances, outsourcing is a false economy, as it doesn’t serve the public good nor the people delivering the service. Cooks. Cleaners. Waste operatives. Security guards. Maintenance workers. Across town halls, council depots and public buildings, the same pattern repeats: exploitation and decline. For our union these aren’t abstract points. Every day we stand with the workers kept out of public view, facing major issues at work. They are the cogs that keep the country clean, fed and safe. A hidden army whose livelihoods are squeezed so that every drip of profit can fill the cup of those without dirt under their fingernails. Take this past week. One employer. One public building. One set of disposable people. The workplace? @UKParliament . The Mother of all Parliaments, the home of workers’ rights, the place where laws protecting working people are written. The winning cleaning contractor? Churchill. A play in three acts. Act 1: The contract (2024) Churchill put in the most competitive bid and beat the field. At least they say so. The terms of the contract? They aren’t available to read due to being ‘commercially sensitive.’ They inherit the existing cleaners and take control of the lucrative parliamentary cleaning operation. Hundreds of staff, multiple buildings, one job: keep Parliament spotless. Act 2: Death by a thousand cuts (2024 onward) The first redundancies begin. Compulsory at first, but after a GMB-led campaign where over 150 politicians protest, they’re cut back to voluntary redundancies. Churchill blames Parliament’s contract. Parliament blame Churchill. Two landlords pointing at each other while the people who clean their floors lose their jobs. Accountability for public money? Nowhere to be found. Act 3: The midway point (2026) Cut deeper. Cut faster. Nearly 50 cleaners told their time is up, all in the name of savings. This is the building that legislates on workers’ rights. The same building that won’t protect the workers inside it. Order, order. Just not for them. @LindsayHoyle_MP, these are your cleaners. They keep your Parliament running. In less than 24 hours, nearly 50 of them lose their jobs on the people’s estate. You can look the other way. Or you can act. Parliament should be the single employer of every worker on this estate, not a landlord hiding behind a contractor. Before you blame the politicians, remember they have no say in this. Their ability to fix the contract has been outsourced. The irony. Tomorrow, it’s Parliament. But this story is not unique to Parliament, this pattern repeats itself in every corner of the country. Another Britain is possible.

A lesson in let down. At GMB Congress, members from across the country marched in Blackpool and the SSSNB needs to listen: school support staff must be valued. 🧡 #MembersFirst

£35,000. That's what GMB and UnionLine secured for a member after he was seriously injured in an on-duty collision. And because UnionLine is GMB's own law firm, he keeps 100% of it. No deductions. No fine print. Just the full payout, where it belongs, with the member. #MembersFirst

Same job. Same school. Worse pay. That’s what academisation means for school support staff. Nobody voted for this. We’re standing up for the workers who keep our schools running. #MembersFirst

We asked hundreds of school support staff what academisation feels like. "Run like a business." "Overstretched." "Ignored." Children aren't a product. Schools aren't a profit margin. #MembersFirst