GMB Barnsley Health Branch

24/12/2025

Wishing all of our members a very merry christmas and a happy new year!
Hoping 2026 is kind to us all.
From Martin Kitch Chris Tracy Anne-Marie Boothy.

30/11/2024

Barnsley health Branch annual member Christmas shopping trip....
Nottingham xmas market. 🎄 🎄🍻🍻

25/04/2024

Supporting at the Care Support worker confrence today! Visability to our members
Ask us about the people promise... flexible working. Your Well being passport & the proposed pay award..

20/01/2024

Hi all....
Just wanted to pop on and say hello....
Moving forward this year we thought we could make more use of social media to reach our members as often Emails aren't read if on annual leave etc.
We will use this page to update you all on upcoming trips and events for you our members and your families.
Cheers from Your GMB reps

03/12/2023

GMB Christmas party 2023 thank you and well done tracy and Ian ### fantastic job 😁👍

03/11/2021

We're balloting members on strike action in the NHS! The ballot opens one week from today. Join today and fight for NHS Pay Justice! 🗳✊

23/09/2021

GMB Survey: Mandatory Vaccination (Covid & Flu) in Health & Social Care.

The Government in England have launched their consultation survey into extending the mandatory Covid vaccination to wider social care and healthcare, and to also mandate the flu vaccination for all workers in these areas.

GMB will be making a submission again, as we did for the previous social care one.

It is important that we ensure we are reflecting the views of our members in this submission, so we have now opened our member survey.

This survey is for completion by members across the NHS and Social Care in England. We are also inviting members in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to complete it and data from their responses will be shared with the relevant devolved nations.

Due to the tight timeline for the consultation the deadline for our survey is Friday 8th October 2021.

The link for the survey is - https://www.gmb.org.uk/21vax

Please share.

20/09/2021

GMB members reject NHS pay deal - strike ballot to follow.

Rachel Harrison, GMB National Officer, said:

“GMB members across the NHS have overwhelmingly rejected the offer. We now have no alternative as a union but to trigger industrial action ballots.

The result is no surprise – a 3% pay increase is an insult after ten years of pay cuts under the Conservatives.

“With inflation at 4.8%, this settlement amounts to yet another real terms pay cut.

"On top of that, GMB analysis shows the average NHS worker will pay more than £500 extra a year in increased National Insurance contributions.

“Our members are already working above and beyond their contracts and the NHS can’t continue to survive on this goodwill any longer.

“We are seeking urgent talks with the Health Secretary. He must meet NHS workers and discuss how to recognise and reward the true value of what they are doing.

“Our health workers deserve a restorative 15% pay increase, not yet more salt in their wounds.”

Health Secretary must meet with GMB Union members after more than 9 in 10 oppose pay ‘insult’