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Drivers at Stagecoach Bluebird in the north east of Scotland are set to strike on Friday of this week over pay.

Around 25 testers in the RMT transport union on the London Underground struck from Sunday night to Tuesday morning in a pay dispute.

Around 160 car component workers at the Federal Mogul plant in Coventry walked out on strike on Monday of this week over attempts to make them work longer for no extra pay.

Around 100,000 health workers are set to strike against a derisory three-year pay offer after members of the Unite union voted for industrial action.

Electricians at Fiddler's Ferry power station in Cheshire are on unofficial strike against lay-offs.

A Nato airstrike killed scores of civilians at a wedding party near Kandahar in southern Afghanistan last week.

Workers at the Dover Harbour Board are set to demonstrate this Saturday and to strike next Tuesday to demand that their jobs are not outsourced.

The national executive of the PCS civil service workers’ union last week voted to suspend a strike by 270,000 members over pay, which was due to take place on Monday.

Ireland Ireland’s biggest union Siptu has announced a strike of Aer Lingus workers for next week over the airline’s plans to make 74 million euros worth of cuts.

Last week saw a serious setback for the movement to challenge Gordon Brown’s public sector pay limits as the leaderships of two big unions decided against calling nationwide strike action that their members had voted for.

The PCS national executive committee has voted to suspend the strike over pay by 270,000 civil service workers, which was set to take place on Monday.

Teachers in the NUT union have voted narrowly in favour of taking several days of national strike action against their below-inflation pay offer.