The orchestra's latest pay offer, the musicians say, was for a 1.5 percent total increase over four years.

The strike lasted seven weeks and ended after miners agreed to a pay offer on 19 February.

The lecturers are also protesting at the 'inadequate' pay offer of 3.9%.

Having had their pay frozen for two years, the pilots have turned down the airline's pay offer.

The threat of nationwide rail disruption moved nearer when union leaders rejected a 'final' 7% pay offer.

Nurses will be voting on a new pay offer recommended by their union.

Transport and General Workers Union members have rejected the latest pay offer from the council run service.

As production starts to rise, workers have adopted a more combative stance and they rejected the pay offer outright at a meeting late Tuesday.

The higher education unions have recieved a final pay offer and proposals for a new pay structure from university employers.

Airline and union negotiators continued to meet throughout the day here, after the pilots rejected management's latest pay offer.