In brief
* Unison plans a strike ballot over pay for thousands of nursery nurses in Scotland's local authority-controlled nurseries.
* In an outrageous attack on human rights Tony Blair has intervened to alter draft European anti-discrimination legislation to allow religious employers to discriminate against lesbians and gay men.
* Remploy, which employs 5,700 disabled workers, could face strike action after workers rejected a pay rise worth £5 per week. They want £20.