Strike Follow

There is a lot of anger among workers here. This was to be expected in a country that had put up fierce resistance to attacks by the previous Tory government.

The pressure on Greek workers intensified in the days following last week’s strike.

Workers at vinyl flooring manufacturer Polyflor Ltd are to vote on strike action after rejecting a revised pay offer.

Around 250 workers at Premier Foods cannery in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, struck on Thursday and Friday of last week and on Tuesday of this week over pay.

More than 550 guards and drivers at First Scotrail will strike this Saturday against plans to impose driver-only trains on the new Airdrie-Bathgate line.

Lecturers in higher education (HE) met for a special sector union conference on Thursday of last week. They voted overwhelmingly for a co-ordinated strike ballot across all HE institutions to defend jobs.

British Airways (BA) has suspended 20 cabin crew workers after they made comments on social networking website Facebook.

Lecturers at Leeds University have set three days of strike action.

The planned strike at the Fujitsu Services IT company did not take place on Monday of this week.

Unison Union members at Kirklees council, West Yorkshire, have voted for an industrial action ballot after the council reneged on key single status agreements.

A strike by 750 signal workers caused major disruption on London Underground last week.

Strike ballot papers arrived at the homes of more than 270,000 civil service workers last week. The workers’ PCS union is urging them to vote yes to defend their redundancy rights and jobs, and oppose privatisation.