Strike Follow

Workers’ resistance to austerity will take centre stage in Portugal on Wednesday of next week when hundreds of thousands of union members are set to join a general strike.

Fire bosses in Essex are trying to buy off workers by offering some of them "no-strike contracts" for extra cash.

GMB union members at the Astra Zeneca pharmaceutical firm in Macclesfield, Cheshire, struck on Tuesday of this week—the ninth strike day in their ongoing fight to defend their pensions.

Workers at two London bus companies have rejected miserly pay offers and are moving towards strikes. Drivers at London United are set to strike for 24 hours on Monday after voting by 525 to 295 to reject a revised pay offer.

Strikes by bus drivers at CT Plus in east London have ended, workers have told Socialist Worker.

Teachers at St Aloysius School in Islington, north London, are expecting to strike on Wednesday and Thursday of next week.

Some 4,000 BBC workers struck on Friday and Saturday of last week against the attack on their pensions.

Leaders of Fire Brigades Union (FBU) last week called off a two-day strike in London that would take in Bonfire Night. Socialist Worker believes this was wrong.

The capital was brought to a halt again last week as London Underground workers joined the third in a series of 24-hour stoppages.

Journalists at Newsquest Southampton started a 48-hour strike against a pay freeze on Tuesday. The NUJ members at the firm, which publishes Southampton’s Daily Echo, organised a protest at a press event in the town.

More than 800 DHL workers based at Jaguar Land Rover are to strike on Monday of next week.

The 48-hour strike by NUJ union members at the BBC over management’s attempts to rob workers’ pensions has been solid across Britain.