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A meeting of the Scottish Unison union local government branches last Friday agreed to reject the employers’ latest pay offer.

Effective strike action last week by 450 rail signallers and signal supervisors in the RMT transport union in Scotland has won serious gains from their Network Rail employer. The workers were angry at the company’s plans to impose roster changes at short notice.

This week saw Gordon Brown spending £37 billion of our money on buying up shares in two failing banks – HBOS and Royal Bank of Scotland – as part of his staggering £500 billion bailout plan.

Around 450 rail signallers and signal supervisors in the RMT transport union began the first of two 24-hour strikes at 12 noon on Tuesday of this week.

Council workers in Scotland have been offered an additional 0.5 percent pay rise this year – but at the price of accepting a two-year deal.

Pickets were out in force in Scotland on Wednesday of last week in a strike over the renegotiation of a below-inflation 2.5 percent pay offer.

Scottish Water workers to ballot Workers at Scottish Water could be the latest public sector workers to take industrial action over a 2.4 percent pay rise.

More than 150,000 local government workers struck across Scotland today.

We are taking to the picket lines this week with over 150,000 other local government workers. Colleagues in the Unite and the GMB unions are striking with us.

The next battle against the government’s determination to hold down wages takes place on Wednesday of next week in Scotland with over 150,000 local government workers coming out for the second time.

The election of Iain Gray as the new leader of Scottish Labour was greeted by one MSP with the claim that this was a "Tony Blair moment".

The Scottish National Party (SNP) government in Scotland recently announced its proposed legislative programme for the coming year.