Strike Follow

Workers at British and Scottish Gas are set to strike. Some 8,000 GMB union members have voted by 82 percent for strikes against "macho management" in the company.

British Airways (BA) cabin crew stuck two fingers up to bullying boss Willie Walsh this week. They led an inspirational three-day strike to defend jobs, pay, conditions and their union.

The strike at British Airways is having a big political impact.

Budget Day is set to see a major show of resistance to New Labour’s programme of cuts as 200,000 government workers prepare to strike.

With 80 percent of cabin crew standing strong on the first day of the BA stoppage, Unite has issued an update of how the strike is biting so far, which reveals that BA's much-vaunted contingencies plans are failing:

BA cabin crew started a three-day strike this morning. They are fighting to stop attacks on jobs, pay, conditions and their Unite union. The picket lines are electric. Pickets cheer as cars beep their horns in support. Even some of the police are giving the thumbs up!

Unite union officials have confirmed that a three-day strike of British Airways cabin crew will go ahead. It begins tomorrow.

Workers and students came together for a rally at Sussex university this afternoon during a successful strike by Sussex lecturers.

Air France cabin crew have called a three-day solidarity strike with workers at British Airways (BA).

Around 50 lecturers and students are picketing the main entrance of Sussex university in a strike to save jobs.

Hundreds of thousands of Italian workers held a four-hour general strike on Friday of last week against the policies of right wing prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.

On the eve of Greece’s third general strike last week, Panepistimiou Street in Athens was packed with several hundred people, huddled around lit braziers.