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Around 40 street lighting workers in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, struck on Friday of last week against attacks on pay.

Unite union general secretary Len McCluskey offered last week to abandon opposition to a key section of David Cameron’s new Trade Union Bill.

The bosses of the last steel plant in Redcar, Teesside, announced they were “mothballing” it on Monday of this week, with the loss of 1,700 jobs. Production was “paused” earlier this month.

The 24th day of protest with Sita Waste Management at the ICI Wilton complex near Redcar took place on Friday of last week.

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Nick Clark finds a mood of optimism at Labour conference in Brighton. But the right set out to undermine Corbyn

Around 200 Ideal Boilers workers in Hull took the first of four planned one-day strikes on Wednesday of last week.

Construction workers turned a three-hour stoppage on Wednesday of last week into a three-day unofficial strike at Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria.

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The number of NHS operations that are cancelled has hit a 13-year high, reveal new figures from NHS England.