Strike Follow

Refuse workers at Leeds city council have entered their sixth week of all-out strike action – and they are vowing to stay out until Christmas, or even longer, if that’s what it takes.

The Unite union has called off a planned three-day strike on Sheffield supertrams after the employer, Stagecoach, offered a revised pay offer.

The FBU firefighters’ union has announced two 24-hour strikes in South Yorkshire.

Workers on the London Underground in the RMT transport union are planning to ballot for strike action over pay.

Eurostar train cleaners at St Pancras International have decided to reactivate their strikes after their employer did not give them a decent offer.

Around 100 bus drivers in Kettering, Northamptonshire, held their first strike "for donkeys’ years" on Wednesday of last week, having voted 70 to 30 to reject Stagecoach’s measly 1.8 percent pay offer.

Lecturers at Stoke-on-Trent College struck on Thursday of last week against the scrapping of the physics department and dyslexia team at the college, which would result in the loss of six jobs.

Workers at London Metropolitan University are set to strike on Thursday and Friday of this week against planned cuts that would slash up to a quarter of the jobs at the university. Management also plan to close the last on-campus student nursery.

The Fujitsu Services IT company has launched a major attack on jobs, pay and pensions – but workers are fighting back.

What are the key issues behind the post dispute?

With a thumping 76 percent vote for strike action in the national ballot the leadership of the CWU union should be banging their war drums. So why are they busy sending peace signals instead?

Postal workers have voted by a massive 76 percent for national strike action. The scale of the yes vote, and the high turnout of 67 percent, will send a tremor through Royal Mail bosses.