Strike Follow

Union members at charity Action for Children have begun a ballot for strikes over pay and attacks on conditions.

A strike by workers at Quarriers care home in Glasgow planned for last weekend was called off after a new offer from management.

Ballot papers will go out to over a million members of the Unison union this week.

More than 1,000 workers at Southampton council were set to strike on Thursday of this week—the biggest walkout yet in their long-running battle.

Workers at Middlesex university, north London, struck on Tuesday of this week in protest at planned job cuts. The action involved workers in both the UCU and Unison unions at the university.

Stow college Workers at Stow college in Glasgow walked out on Monday in a strike against low pay. Over 60 Unison union members picketed the college. They included support workers, admin staff, caretakers and caterers.

Mass meetings in bus garages across Cairo were reported to have rejected a deal agreed between leaders of the independent union, the minister of labour and the management of the Public Transport Authority. This is according to a report in the Al-Ishtaraki newspaper on 28 September.

Workers at Stow College in Glasgow were set to strike on Wednesday of this week against a pay freeze.

A nationwide strike of television licensing workers moved a step nearer last week after they voted for strikes in a dispute over pay.

Journalists in Warrington have called a 48-hour strike against Newsquest bosses’ attacks on their jobs and pay.

Union leaders are giving workers the go-ahead to use "any means necessary" to win a massive strike vote in the battle for public sector pensions.

Workers at Middlesex university have voted overwhelmingly for strikes to save jobs. Lecturers voted by 80 percent for strikes and 94 percent for action short of a strike in a recent ballot.