600,000 public sector workers threaten to strike - The Guardian 24th June 2008

Gordon Brown was facing his most serious strike threat from the public sector last night when 600,000 local government workers voted to take industrial action and reject a 2.45% pay offer. Unison, the country's second biggest union and normally one of the most loyal of Labour affiliates, will meet today to decide on a programme of disruption.

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