Today's story from the Advertiser's archives winds back the clock five years to the prospect of the first industrial action at the Clyde naval base since the early 1970s.

Here's how we reported the news on February 13, 2014...

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HUNDREDS of workers at Faslane and Coulport naval and armament bases will strike next week in a dispute over pay.

Helensburgh politicians have appealed to the Unite Union - which represents the workers – and employers Babcock to reach a speedy resolution to the row over a below-inflation pay offer of one per cent.

Following a mass meeting on Tuesday, Unite revealed 800 employees will take part in ‘continuous industrial action’, starting with a two-hour walkout at 10am on Wednesday, February 19.

They will also stage a work-to-rule, call-out ban, and a ban on all non-contractual overtime, with further stoppages on Thursday, February 20 and beyond.

These ‘staged stoppages’ will involve all union employees from all sectors - from cleaners, to caterers and transport drivers - protesting for an hour on a roll-on-roll-off basis, indefinitely.

More than 95 per cent of Unite members backed strike action on an 82 per cent vote turnout.

Unite national officer Ian Waddell said Babcock has declined to sit down with workplace dispute specialists ACAS.

He said: “The first mass-industrial action on the Clyde in 42 years should set alarm bells ringing in the MoD and really crystallise the problems created by Babcock’s refusal to negotiate a consolidated pay deal which it can more than afford.”