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TRIBUTES were paid at GMB conference yesterday to former president Mary Turner, who died last July.
Delegates meeting in Brighton began conference proceedings with a standing ovation to “our Mary,” who was the union’s president from 1997 until her death, while her granddaughter accepted a GMB gold badge in her honour.
Ms Turner also represented the GMB on the Labour Party’s national executive committee and was the most senior female British trade unionist at the time of her death.
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