Strike Follow

Teachers at Forest Hill school in Lewisham, south east London, will begin a strike ballot on Wednesday of this week against a compulsory redundancy.

NUT members at Islington Arts and Media School were set to strike on Thursday of this week.

Teachers at Highgate Wood school in Crouch End struck on Thursday of last week against plans to force them to work extra hours.

RMT transport union members on the Heathrow Express are set to strike on Friday and Saturday of this week over pay.

A second national strike by doctors affected outpatient services in hospitals across Egypt on Tuesday of last week.

The UCU union goes into its Congress this weekend in the midst of several national disputes and on the back of a national strike on 24 March.

The mass public sector strike in Botswana, southern Africa, escalated on Tuesday when the government sacked health workers in "essential" services.

Delegates to the PCS civil service workers' union today (Wednesday) sent a defiant message to the government by voting almost unanimously to launch a strike ballot.

Two Coventry schools struck against academies on Friday of last week. Some 70 teachers in the NUT and NASUWT unions were involved in the strike at Tile Hill Wood School – a huge majority – with a further 30 NUT members striking at Woodlands School.

Anne Lemon, NUT executive member for North Somerset, spoke to Socialist Worker about building the strike ballot:

Refuse workers at Southampton council were set to walk out on indefinite strike from Monday of next week.

The UK Border Agency (UKBA) has agreed to review the case of three Kurdish Iranian asylum seekers who mounted a 37‑day hunger strike outside its headquarters in Croydon.