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  Doctors consider further strike action over pensions

  21 Jun 2012: BMA says day's go-slow that affected thousands of patients sent 'a strong message that a fairer approach must be found'

• Doctors strike over pensions shakeup – as it happened

  21 Jun 2012:

  • Between a third and a quarter of GPs' surgeries affected
  • Doctors still turning up to work to deal with emergencies
  • Lansley says thousands of patients inconvenienced
  • BMA accuses government of misleading public

• Essex firefighters announce series of strikes over cuts

  21 Jun 2012: Union claims county will have lost one in five frontline staff since 2008 if changes to service go ahead

• Unison attacks 'intolerable' Labour thinktank

  20 Jun 2012: Trade union speaks out against Lord Mandelson's defence of Progress, branding his involvement as 'desperate'

• How Labour can make progress

  19 Jun 2012: Letters: We are currently campaigning for universal childcare and social care, more employee share ownership, co-operatives and the mutualisation of some government-owned banks

• Tories must go further and faster on public sector reforms, ex-adviser warns

  19 Jun 2012: Party must show it has made tangible improvements to services before next election, says Sean Worth

• To strike is a right – stop trying to deter the low-paid from exercising it

  18 Jun 2012: Frances O'Grady: This tough talk on strike action misses an opportunity to help low-paid workers in a meaningless attempt to please the right

• Union chief vows to step up fight over public sector pay

  18 Jun 2012: Unison promises co-ordinated action across schools, hospitals and councils if ministers do not halt pay freeze

• Lord Mandelson warns against union move to ban Progress from Labour

  17 Jun 2012: Former business secretary Lord Mandelson warns GMB move to ban Progress risks return to divisiveness and rancour of 1980s

• Workers who strike face benefit restrictions

  17 Jun 2012:

  Workers claiming benefit will lose top-up if they are responsible for a reduction in their income as a result of strike action

• The last thing Labour needs now is a settling of scores

  17 Jun 2012: Jackie Ashley: A bastion of Blairism is under attack by unions. But none of this would matter if the party's position was clearer

• Olympic park workers 'blacklisted over political views'

  17 Jun 2012: MPs hear of two men fired from Olympic site in east London during inquiry into political persecution in the construction industry

• Unions fight Labour's Blairite faction 'in struggle for party's soul'

  15 Jun 2012: GMB pushes for members of Progress to be barred while Ed Miliband stays silent over controversy

• London bus drivers threaten to strike if Olympic bonuses are not paid

  15 Jun 2012: Unite trade union says 21,000 drivers want to be rewarded in similar way to tube and rail workers

• Trade unions criticise government for refusing to save Coryton oil refinery

  15 Jun 2012: Time running out to protect 850 jobs as UK's largest independent site is wound down

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