09/07/2008
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increases in food and fuel prices. The Public and Commercial Services Union said on Sunday it would ballot 270,000 civil service staff to strike over pay from November. The biggest teachers union is balloting members and other government workers could also strike this winter over pay.
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09/07/2008
Civil service to ballot over strike action (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
More than a quarter of a million workers across Britain's civil service will vote on strike action in protest at the government's strict pay policy, the Public and Commercial Services Union said on Sunday.
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09/07/2008
Civil servants to vote on strike (BBC News)
Civil servants are to be balloted over taking industrial action for at least three months, the PCS union announces.
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09/05/2008
Councils face risk of fall in fuel prices (Financial Times)
Kevin Harlock, director of commercial services at Kent county council, was ast-ounded to learn last month that a national bus company was paying as little as 70p a litre for diesel fuel compared with a current retail price of about 120p.
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09/07/2008
Unions join forces as strike looms (ITN via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
The Government is facing a series of fresh attacks from unions as civil servants threaten to strike.
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09/07/2008
Huundreds Of Thousands May Strike (Sky News via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
Hundreds of thousands of civil servants are to be balloted on taking industrial action for three months in a pay dispute, it has been announced.
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09/07/2008
Civil servants to vote on strike action (ITN via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Hundreds of thousands of civil servants will vote on whether to take industrial action for at least three months.
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09/07/2008
Civil servants to vote over action (Channel 4)
Hundreds of thousands of civil servants are to be balloted on whether to take industrial action for at least three months in a bitter dispute with the Government over pay.
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09/07/2008
Unions urge Labour unity and threaten more strikes (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
The Labour party must stop infighting and do more to ease the economic downturn, union leaders said on Sunday, threatening further strikes this year over public sector pay.
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09/07/2008
Civil servants to vote on strike action (Channel 4)
Hundreds of thousands of civil servants are to be balloted on whether to take industrial action for at least three months in a bitter dispute with the Government over pay, it has been announced.
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