Strike Follow

NUJ union members in Glasgow took three days of strike action last weekend, crippling the production of the Daily Record and the Sunday Mail. They struck against proposals for 70 redundancies and are escalating their action with a further strike ballot on a change to shift patterns.

Around 700 members of the RMT transport union at East Midlands Trains were set to strike on Friday of this week against 162 job losses and the company’s failure to guarantee that there will be no compulsory redundancies.

London Underground drivers shut down the whole of the Victoria Line in a 24-hour strike from 9pm on Tuesday of last week.

The Unite union has postponed the strike ballot of more than 2,000 bus workers at Metroline in north London, which was scheduled to take place on Friday of last week.

London Underground drivers in the RMT transport union on the Victoria Line were to strike from 9pm on Tuesday of this week for 24 hours.

Members of the NUJ journalists’ union at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail newspapers in Glasgow are stepping up their fight against job losses with a 72-hour strike.

Council workers in Glasgow were awaiting the results of a strike ballot over pay protection as Socialist Worker went to press.

Five Socialist Worker readers have a chance to win this new T-shirt from Philosophy Football commemorating the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike.

Over 10,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in call centres in the Revenue & Customs department are building up to take action against attacks on their terms and conditions.

Bus drivers at Metroline in north London were due to hold a consultative strike ballot across all its garages on Friday of this week.

The Glasgow community service supervisors’ strike is now in its 15th week and the city-wide Unison union branch ballot is continuing.