Strike Follow

Workers across Greece’s public sector are set to strike over cuts on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.

Five Turkish trade union federations held a one-day general strike in solidarity with 12,000 Tekel workers on Thursday of last week.

Women in Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre have been on hunger strike since Friday of last week against their treatment in the centre. The detention centre is used to hold people before they are forcibly removed from Britain.

A strike by 750 signals workers has caused major disruption on London Underground today. The RMT transport union members are angry about management's plans to enforce shift changes, break agreements and outsource work.

Lecturers at Leeds University have voted strongly for strike action over job cuts.

The RMT union is planning to ballot members at Network Rail for strike action.

THE GMB union was to serve notice this week of an official strike ballot of 8,000 members at British and Scottish Gas. It is in protest at attacks on jobs and conditions.

The threat of eight days of strike action by South Yorkshire firefighters has forced their bosses into talks.

Resistance to the cuts across higher education is growing. Lecturers at Leeds university are coming to the end of their strike ballot and more groups of lecturers are preparing to join the fight.

Hundreds of thousands of civil service workers will start a ballot this week over attacks on their redundancy rights. It could mean major strikes in the run-up to the general election.

Two days of strike action planned by workers at Premier Foods in Wisbech were called off this week.

Fujitsu workers are escalating their fight for jobs, pay and pensions with five more days of strike action set to take place.