EMPLOYERS and unions must focus on “deeds not words” when fighting endemic sexual harassment in workplaces, GMB national president Barbara Plant said today.

She told delegates at a GMB congress fringe meeting that having better policies is “never enough — they have to be enacted to build up a cycle of trust” with survivors.

The general union overhauled its own procedures following a damning independent investigation in 2020 which found it was “institutionally sexist” and suffered from “deep-rooted misogyny.”