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Thousands of bus workers in London have thrown their weight behind the Unite union’s growing pay campaign.

Thousands of bus workers in west and east London are striking today over pay – making a huge impact on services at one of the biggest companies in the city.

London's Notting Hill Carnival is rightly hailed as a celebration of multi-ethnic Britain.

This week marks a turning point in the London bus workers' pay campaign. About 2,500 bus workers at First Centrewest and First Capital are set to launch the first strike action of the campaign on Friday of this week. They are planning more strikes on 12 and 13 September.

The entrance to St Pancras International station in central London was a riot of colourful union flags, chanting and dancing from 6am on Bank Holiday Monday.

The threat of coordinated action on the London Underground between Tube Lines workers and cleaners saw management make a new offer in both disputes.

There was anger and deep disappointment among London Underground workers last week when the RMT union called off a strike by 1,000 maintenance workers at the Tube Lines consortium after a new offer from management.

Union members at the London Development Agency (LDA) are to be balloted in coming weeks over management's latest pay offer of 2.5 percent.

Bus workers at two companies owned by the First Group – First Centrewest and First Capital – have voted resoundingly for strike action over a 3.5 percent below-inflation pay offer.

Thursday 3 July was no ordinary day for the mainly migrant workers at the contractors that supply cleaning services to London Underground.

Around 60 council workers in the Unison union in Haringey, north London, walked out of work on Tuesday of last week after two union activists were suspended.

Cleaners for the Eurostar trains in London are set to strike on Monday of next week after they voted 100 percent for action over pay. They work for the OCS contractor and get just £6.37 an hour.