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Members of the GMB union at Asda’s Washington depot in the north east of England have rejected an improved pay offer from management.

The GMB union conference last week saw Paul Kenny, previously London regional secretary, take over as acting general secretary for the next year.

GMB backs the protests Members of the GMB union meeting at their national conference in Gateshead this week voted unanimously to back protests at the G8 summit.

A deep mood of pessimism seems to have struck the leaders of many of the big unions as they cast about for solutions to membership decline and financial crisis in their organisations.

THE GMB is the latest major union to consider strikes against New Labour’s public sector pensions robbery.

Amicus THE NATIONAL executive of the Amicus union was told on Wednesday of last week about plans for a three-way merger with the T&G and GMB unions. Almost every executive member knew about the plans in advance—by reading about them in the newspapers.

OFFICIALS FROM the Unison and GMB unions were due to meet Brighton and Hove council for talks this week about the dispute over pay for teaching assistants. Teaching assistants in Brighton and Hove struck on three days last year against council plans to cut the number of weeks they work, effectively wiping out a promised pay rise.

Let’s strike while the iron’s hot ABOUT 80 members of the GMB union working for the Multiserve steel company were set to strike on Monday of next week over pay.

GMB rejects steel deal MEMBERS OF the GMB union working for the Multiserve steel company have voted to reject a pay offer, renewing the possibility of a strike that would hit steel production across South Yorkshire.

HARD-HITTING industrial action at Co-Op Funeralcare has forced bosses to make a new pay offer. Members of the TGWU and GMB unions at the company are now voting on a new pay rise.

More than 40 schools across Brighton and Hove were closed on Thursday and Friday of last week as around 700 teaching assistants from the Unison and GMB unions struck over low pay.

LAING O’ROURKE construction workers at the Channel Tunnel site, King’s Cross, were forced to sit in again on Wednesday of last week as management reneged on a commitment to recognise the GMB union.