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Some 35 GMB union members from Sheffield Recycling Centres began an all-out strike last Saturday.

How to resist the Tory attacks was the theme of the GMB Congress in Brighton this week. But the key terrain of that battle for the union is the Labour Party’s conduct in opposition.

The GMB union threw its weight into the fight against blacklisting at its congress this week.

Baggage handlers put their case Swissport baggage handlers at Stansted airport struck for all four days of the long weekend last week. The workers, in the Unite and GMB unions, are fighting plans to make them work 14 extra days a year with no extra pay.

A planned strike by refuse workers the GMB union in west Wiltshire was called off last week after workers narrowly accepted a new offer from management.

Unite’s executive have voted to name a day for strikes in April if no other union does. The union’s members in the health service have rejected the government’s offer and its members in the civil service are being balloted until 18 April. Unison health will ballot its members on the offer in April. GMB has announced a consultation of members on the deal. Ballot dates have not been announced yet. The British Medical Association and the Royal College of Nursing have already returned big votes to reject the deal. EIS Scottish teachers’ union members are battling to get strikes put back on after the union’s leadership called off action on 28 March.

When private equity firms buy out public services job losses and bankruptcies follow fast, research by the GMB union shows.

Porters, cleaners and caterers in the GMB union started three days of strikes at Swindon’s Great Western hospital this Monday.

Some 50 striking workers in the GMB union marched and blockaded the central London headquarters of their employer Carillion today (Tuesday).

Cheshire West and Chester Workers in the Unison, Unite and GMB unions struck for three hours this Tuesday against worse contracts at Cheshire West and Chester Council.

Remploy workers in the Unite and GMB unions struck in Glasgow and Chesterfield on Thursday of last week. They are fighting what they call the "semi-privatisation" of their factories.

The "heads of agreement" signed by Unison, Unite and GMB union officials before Christmas adds up to a total betrayal on public sector pensions.