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The GMB union has suspended its strikes at Astra Zeneca in Macclesfield, Cheshire, after bosses agreed to talks.

GMB union members at the drugs firm Astra Zeneca’s site in Macclesfield struck for the seventh time over pensions on Friday of last week.

More than 60 London ambulance workers in the GMB union protested this morning outside a meeting of the South London Healthcare NHS Trust. They are fighting to stop privatisation and have voted by over 95 percent to take strike action.

GMB union members at Mothersill Engineering in Cumbria walked out for the second Friday in a row last week as part of their fight for better pay.

GMB union members at Astra Zeneca in Macclesfield, Cheshire, struck on Thursday of last week over attacks on their pensions.

Around 40 bin workers in Sandwell, West Midlands, lobbied a meeting between Serco and the GMB and Unite trade unions last week.

Some 150,000 jobs are being slashed in the public sector—and that’s before George Osborne’s spending review—according to a study by the GMB union.

Workers at bed manufacturer Vi-Spring in Plymouth are being balloted for strike action over the sacking of their GMB union shop steward.

Leaders of the GMB and Unite unions are recommending that 3,000 British Airways ground crew workers accept a job and pay cutting deal—in the middle of the crucial battle by cabin crew.

Many comrades and trade unionists will be saddened to hear of the death of Edna Greenwood (Fallows) aged 64. It came just ten days after her marriage to her long-standing GMB union colleague, Tommy Fallows.

Six hundred GMB union members at the AstraZeneca plant in Macclesfield began a strike ballot over pensions this week. Unite union members are also set to be balloted.

Bin workers in Sandwell, West Midlands, were set to start their ballot for strikes this week. The 100 workers, of the GMB and Unite unions, are angry over council "single status" plans that would mean pay cuts of up to £2,900 each.