Young members

  • Have you got young members in your branch?
  • Are there young workers in your workplace or branch who you could potentially recruit?
  • Are you 27 or under?

If the answer to any of these questions is yes then we’d like to hear from you. Contact the Regional Young Members Officer David Shamma - email youthMid&ECReg@gmb.org.uk or call 01733 344418

The young members top priority is is to overturn the age discrimination in the National Minimum Wage legislation.

Why not register as a young member in the Region and become the activist that can change things in your workplace, branch and Region?

Contact David Shamma –

NYMAC

The National Young Members Advisory Committee draws young members together from across GMB. Meetings are held around the country and have combined both formal agenda items with practical like campaigning and recruitment activities.

This region can send delegates to NYMAC and is always looking for new faces. If any of you would like more information in the Young Members Secion, then please contact David Shamma on 01733 344418

GMB Young Members Bureau

The National Young Members’ Bureau has four key aims for its work:

  • to give experience and support to active young members and so help develop key union activists, the next generation of the union lav leadership;
  • to raise the profile of GMB and the trade union movement as a whole among young people and so make it easier to win both members and support;
  • to develop policy which will be of benefit to young people, both GMB members and more widely; and
  • to provide a focus around which young members in the union can campaign.

The National Young Members’ Bureau supports the National Young Members’ Advisory Committee (NYMAC). In addition there is an annual Young Members’ National Conference, held each year at the end of November.

Get Involved

To be successful the National Young Members’ Bureau and NYMAC need to involve first and foremost the young members themselves. Anyone aged 27 or under can get involved in the union’s young members’ activities.

They also need to be able to call on the support of older activists, such as branch secretaries, shop stewards and section conference delegates as well as the full-time officials of the union.

GMB rules already require each branch to appoint a Branch Youth Officer. But if you can help in any other way or the National Young Members’ Bureau.

GMB knows that work with and for young members is the key to the future.

Get involved and help to make this work a success.