A dockers’ strike has paralysed large parts of Finnish industry.
Trade union leaders in Ireland have been forced to announce a new series of strikes over pay cuts, job losses and attacks on pensions.
Voters in Iceland have overwhelmingly rejected the terms of a deal to compensate British and Dutch banking customers for their losses after the bank Icesave collapsed in 2008.
Lecturers at the University of Sussex are set to strike on Thursday 18 March.
Over 200,000 civil service workers struck on Monday and Tuesday in the first major national battle against the government’s cuts programme.
The new agreement is called, in a phrase both ominous and bland, Business Transformation 2010 and Beyond. It’s a dog’s dinner of a document—hard to make sense of, with strings of letters representing previous agreements, and a general attempt to hide its message behind obscure language.
Senior reps meeting in Bournemouth this week will be told how significant the new national agreement is. They will be reminded that Royal Mail wanted to impose its own vision of the future without the union.
Two new candidates have joined the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) to stand in the upcoming general election.
Crucial talks between British Airways (BA) bosses and the Unite union were due to end as Socialist Worker went to press.
The bosses and right wing rags say BA cabin crew are well paid. They claim workers earn £29,000 a year.
