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Powerful action by maintenance workers on London Underground has forced management to back off from big attacks on jobs, pay and working conditions.

Strikes by Glasgow Life (previously Glasgow Culture and Sport) workers last Saturday and Sunday shut down the People’s Palace, and led to the closure of an exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art (pictured).

The sixth full one-day general strike this year was to rock Greece on Thursday of this week.

The NUJ, Bectu and Unite unions have warned that they could launch a strike ballot at the BBC over attacks on pay and pensions.

Transport workers on the Madrid metro struck for four days last week over pay cuts, shutting down all 12 lines and bringing the city to a standstill.

A strike ballot by workers at British Telecom (BT) was cancelled this week after bosses threatened the CWU union with a legal challenge.

Teachers in the NUT union at St Aloysius College, in Islington, north London, took their second day of strike action on Thursday of last week.

"Manchester College hear us say – our union is here to stay!" That was the chant taken up by college teachers on their march round Manchester city centre today.

This new documentary tells the inspiring but sad tale of the 1984–5 Miners’ Strike.

A general strike brought Greece to a halt on Tuesday.

More than 500 workers at vehicle parts maker GKN Sankey in Telford, Shropshire, have called off a planned strike after winning concessions over pay.

Striking workers shut down a major exhibition in Glasgow last weekend.