If the answer is ‘yes’ to any of these questions then you need to know more about the GMB’s Young Members organisation, at Regional and National Level.

However, our National Young Members Advisory Committee (NYMAC) has a number of key objectives:

• To recruit and organise young people with, and through, Regional Activity.


• To effectively campaign on issues that are of concern to young people, and using such campaigns as a means to recruitment and organisation.


• To raise the profile of the GMB among young people, ensuring the GMB is relevant and essential to their well-being.


• To develop beneficial policies for young people by consultation and discussion with NYMAC, and the Executive bodies of the GMB.

The NYMAC is made up of representatives from Regional Young Member Committees and meets five times a year.

In addition there is an annual Young Members’ National Conference comprising of young GMB members, drawn from the ten regions of the GMB.

NYMAC has campaigned on a range of issues that effect, or are of concern to young people. These include matters like ‘kick drugs out of sport’, ‘safe sex, ‘the minimum wage for young people’, and many recruitment activities.

The first criteria to be involved is that you need to be 27 or under and secondly be willing to be challenged, and have a great deal of fun whilst doing so!

Young members need the support of all members, activists, and officers within the Union. GMB rules already require each Branch to elect a Youth Officer. Age is no barrier to this post - just young in spirit and dynamic in purpose.

The GMB also has a Regional Youth Officer in each Region who are there to advise and assist in the recruitment and organisation of young people into the GMB.

So join our other 60,000+ Young Members. Membership is growing daily. Help make this a continuing success story. It is the key to the Young Members’ future, and that of us all.