Strike Follow

Lecturers at 11 further education colleges across London are balloting for strike action. If there is a yes vote, they plan to strike together on Wednesday 5 May—the day before the general election.

A hundred members of the PCS civil service workers’ union voted unanimously for a strike ballot at lunchtime meetings in Chorlton, Manchester, on Friday of last week.

The media spreads the same old lies every time workers go on strike.

Talks between the RMT transport union and Network Rail resumed this week at the Acas conciliation service. This comes after the RMT, along with the TSSA union, called off four days of strikes at the company after a court ruling against a strike ballot.

More than 550 journalists across 22 centres at Johnston Press are balloting for strike action.

Delegates unanimously passed a motion calling for strike action to combat excessive workloads.

The GMB union last week called off planned strike action at British Gas after "positive discussions" with the company.

Bosses took the RMT rail union to court last week and stopped its planned Network Rail strike.

The court decision to grant an injunction against the RMT has increased union activists’ determination to win their battle with Network Rail.

Cuts at BA have hit ordinary workers hard—and have forced BA cabin crew to strike.

Around 500 British Airways cabin crew gathered at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) building in central London on Tuesday evening, to mark the end of their four-day strike.

The High Court has granted Network Rail an injunction against next week’s planned strike by signalling workers in the RMT transport union. The four-day strike by thousands of maintenance workers in the RMT and TSSA unions against the slashing of 1,500 safety-critical jobs from Tuesday is still to go ahead, as far as union activists are aware.