OUR PURPOSE
The GMB's purpose is to improve the quality of life for all our members and their families, widening horizons and bringing new opportunities into reach. We aim to enhance the lives of GMB members and ensure that their achievements spearhead the advance of working people in Britain and the world. Every GMB member should have the opportunity to discover and develop his or her talents. All our members should enjoy work that is fulfilling and rewarding.
We will work in partnership with the more far-sighted employers negotiating constructive and beneficial agreements that help to achieve our purpose.
We will work to widen the understanding of employers whose horizons and objectives are more limited. The GMB will be a friend to humanity, but an enemy to exploitation, discrimination and injustice.
We will persuade non-members to join, stimulate members to become active and encourage activists to take full part in the young people so that we enrich their lives and safeguard the future of the GMB and our values.
We will train local representatives to represent GMB members with dignity and expertise, so that they win respect for their members, for the GMB, and for themselves.
We will recruit and sustain our membership by outstanding service to working people and their families, encouraging membership that lasts from the cradle to the grave. We aim to achieve the reputation as the best Trade Union in Europe.
We will create an atmosphere of teamwork and joint endeavour in which every office holder and every employee of the GMB will feel personally responsible for achieving our purpose.
