1.   Equal pay claims were brought and lost by several groups of working women, bakers, confectioners and factory workers.

2.   The attempt to bolster the pay claim with the fear of closures failed.

3.   The miners voted for strike action in support of their pay claim.

4.   Nurses have threatened to come out in support of their pay claim.

5.   Another union has voted for industrial action in support of a pay claim.

6.   Electricity workers have voted for industrial action in pursuit of a pay claim.

7.   Disruption in schools in England and Wales will escalate this week as the two biggest teaching unions step up industrial action in support of their pay claim.

8.   By tilting bargaining power towards labour, it encouraged big pay claims.

9.   The company said none of its insurance companies is involved in the bankruptcy filing and that its insurance businesses will continue pay claims and issue new policies.