Strike Follow

Some 150 Barnet council workers have voted to strike against the Tory council’s privatisation plans, dubbed "easyCouncil".

Some 24,000 workers at Misr Spinning and Weaving Company in Mahalla Al Kubra, Egypt’s largest public owned company, have started an indefinite, all-out strike.

NUT union members took to the picket lines today in protest at plans to transform their school into an academy.

Workers at Nottinghamshire county council are set to strike on Thursday of next week after delivering a yes vote in their ballot.

Headteacher Juliet Strang has been removed from Villiers High School after a student strike and mass protests.

The Unite union has declared its latest strike ballot at British Airways (BA) invalid.

Lecturers at the University of West England (UWE) struck on Thursday of last week and plan to strike on Friday of this week.

Teachers at Chestnut Grove school in Wandsworth, south London, are set to strike on Wednesday of this week against plans to transform the school into an academy.

Workers at London’s City airport have voted by 97 percent to be balloted over whether to strike over pay and conditions.

Egypt is in the grip of a huge strike wave that marks a sudden and dramatic deepening of the revolution. Tens of thousands of workers have walked out of offices, factories, textile mills, ports, hospitals, schools and universities across the country. Even police officers are demonstrating.

Teachers at Chestnut Grove school in Wandsworth, south London, are set to strike on Wednesday of next week against plans to transform the school into an academy.

A strike wave involving thousands of workers is sweeping across Egypt today (Wednesday). An Egyptian activist in Cairo told Socialist Worker that their phone is ringing every ten minutes with new reports of walkouts.