YOUNG private-sector workers are “ready and willing to unionise but often lack the knowledge of how to organise,” GMB members were told today.

William Gibson, who played a central role in the general union’s successful campaign to unionise Glasgow’s flagship Apple store, stressed there was “much work to be done with young workers in non-unionised sectors but there’s certainly no lack of desire.”

This February’s historic deal with the US tech giant — the first for Apple in Britain — means staff in the Scottish city’s Buchanan Street store can now elect workplace representatives to bargain on their behalf.