Strike Follow

UCU union members struck at Barnsley College on Monday of this week. It was their second successful strike in the battle to save jobs.

The government has gone on an all out attack on the unions whose members have voted to strike on 30 June.

If your workplace is due to strike, hold meetings to mobilise for the action, argue with every member about why they should back the strike and organise to make the picket lines and protests big on the day.

Union reps across the country are laying the ground for the biggest possible strike next week.

Almost all of Greece’s public sector workforce took part in an enormous general strike which rocked the country’s government last Wednesday.

South London journalists working for Newsquest struck for two days last week over eight job cuts.

Some 200 lecturers in the UCU union at Barnsley College struck against job cuts on Friday of last week. They plan another four days of strikes this month and next.

NUT union members at Forest Hill School in Lewisham, south east London, were set to strike on Thursday of this week.

Strikes on 30 June can reshape British politics.

Some 10,000 workers at Birmingham City Council, Britain’s biggest council, have voted by 76  percent for strikes.

Delegates at Unison’s local government conference voted today to back a campaign of strikes to defend their pensions.

A huge general strike in Greece has rocked the country’s government. Workers are furious at the government’s attempts today to force massive austerity measures through parliament.