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Bristol health workers in the Unite union met last week in the wake of new attacks on our pay.

Around 400 car transporter drivers could strike at Stobart Automotive against threats to jobs and for a pay rise.

Around 700 workers walked out at two Scottish naval bases on Tuesday of this week. More walkouts are expected as well as action short of a strike. The workers at Faslane and Coulport are members of the Unite union employed by Babcock Marine.

A construction worker on the Crossrail project died after a piece of concrete fell on his head.

The Unite union’s Executive Council (EC) cut its affiliation fee to the Labour Party in half last week, following Ed Miliband’s changes to the unions’ role in the party.

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Local government workers in Unison, GMB and Unite unions are furious at bosses’ failure to make a pay offer for this year.

More than 2,000 Unite union members at around 50 box manufacturing sites are being balloted for strikes over pay. The Confederation of Paper Industries offered a 2013 pay rise of 2.9 percent. It represents big, profitable corrugated packaging firms including SAICA Pack UK Smurfit Kappa and DS Smith. The ballot closes on 11 March.

Twelve assembly line workers struck for better pay at the Daiwa Sports fishing rod factory in Lanarkshire on Monday and Tuesday of this week. The workers—all women—are members of the Unite union. They are currently paid just £6.72 an hour, and rejected a below-inflation raise of 1.5 percent.

Unison has given local government bosses until 1 April to respond to unions’ pay claim or they will begin a national branch consultation.

A Unite union convenor at London’s One Housing Group was suspended last week in what activists see as an attempt to victimise him.

A planned strike by hundreds of workers at two Scottish naval bases for Wednesday of this week was called off for talks.