Strike Follow

The solid strike last week by Tube Lines maintenance workers on London Underground rocked management.

The 48 hour strike by maintenance workers on the London Underground (LU) last week was fantastic. Staff working for Tube Lines carrying out maintenance work on the Jubilee, Piccadilly and Northern lines were striking over jobs, working conditions, pay and parity with Metronet LU workers.

Lecturers at Manchester College were set to strike on Wednesday of this week. They are battling bosses who want to rip up their terms and conditions and have already derecognised their UCU union.

The lecturers’ UCU union is set to hold national strike ballots of members over jobs and pay.

Teachers at Lister Community school, east London, began a three-day strike this week. They also struck on Wednesday and Thursday of last week over plans to sack three teachers and increase the workload.

Over the next 48 hours, London Underground will grind to a halt as a key set of workers strike.

Tube Line bosses have failed to get a judge to grant an injunction against a strike by RMT union members on London Underground. This means that the maintenance workers’ strike over jobs, pay and working conditions will go ahead for 48-hours from 7pm tonight.

Italy—are strikes the way to win? Millions of public and private sector workers were to strike across Italy on Friday of this week.

Journalists at the left wing Morning Star newspaper called off a strike planned for last Sunday after accepting a new pay deal.

The prospect of widespread strike action at the Johnston Press newspaper group has receded for the moment. But a group of chapels (workplace branches) in Yorkshire and the North West of England are still looking at coordinated action.

Over 200 Southampton library workers, trade unionists and their supporters held a demonstration during their strike on Monday.

Tory prime minister David Cameron says the government’s austerity budget will "change our way of life". It won’t change the life of a millionaire like him in the slightest, of course, but for millions of workers it means a swathe of attacks.