There are amendments down from Labour to strike out the 1% limit, link any changes to a job guarantee for those unemployed for more than two years, and to the top rate of income tax.
Lord Henley retorted that he wanted to hear "a thorough condemnation" of the strike from Labour.
But Labour, in its urge to strike a deal for coal, has missed it.
But there is no such plan to deal with a strike by both unionised labour and the (soon-to-be-unionised?) management.
Italy's three main labour groups jointly declared a general strike for next month.
It is highly unlikely that Labour would return Britain to the strike-ridden 1970s.
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The country is showing signs of a wage-price spiral, with annual inflation touching 26%, labour unrest and a threatened general strike.
Mr Miliband also told me that there was no chance of George Galloway returning to the Labour Party and that proposals for a general strike were ridiculous and would not happen.
More likely he saw it, at the time, as a surgical strike to target Plaid Cymru over what Labour has marked out as Plaid's weakness over job creation and the economy.
On the one hand, the strike, backed by business as well as labour, showed no sign of weakening.
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In a country long known for labour activism, it will be only the third general strike since the union was formed in the 1940s.
Labour said the whole House would "clearly regret" the strike was taking place, but claimed the government carried the "great burden of responsibility for what is happening today".
The British government wants to minimise the risk that the charter, which enshrines such things as a right to strike, could threaten their liberalising, Thatcher-era labour-law reforms.
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Stephen Twigg, Labour's shadow education secretary urged more negotiation in order to avoid strike action.
South Africa has increased the basic daily wage of farm workers by 52% following a violent strike in the wine-producing Western Cape region, the labour minister has said.
In its defence review in 2010, the coalition announced that it was cancelling the previous Labour government's decision to purchase jump-jet version of the Joint Strike Fighter (the F35-B) and opt instead for the catapult and trap (F35-C) type, which required a different set-up on deck.
His talent for bridging divides was sorely tested in the 1980s as Labour was jolted by rifts between right and left, particularly during the bitter miners strike when he was spokesman for energy, employment and trade and industry.
One side-effect of the cost-cutting was a labour dispute in the summer of 1997, when short-haul cabin crews went on strike to protest against changes in their working patterns.
Labour leader Ed Miliband was heckled at the TUC conference on Tuesday when said a one-day strike in June over pensions had been a "mistake" and urged unions to continue the talks with the government.
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