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The leadership of the Irish trade unions has called off the general strike that was set for Monday of this week.

Firefighters in the FBU union in Humberside and South Yorkshire are holding ballots for industrial action short of a strike in two separate disputes over imposed changes to work patterns.

Around 100 train conductors in the RMT union working at London Midland depots at Bletchley, Northampton and Watford are set to strike for two days from Sunday.

Head goes after strike threat An attempt to take schools out of community control has run into problems in Waltham Forest in east London.

Thousands of BBC workers across Britain are set to strike on Friday of this week. This action will have a severe impact on broadcasting.

Workers on London Underground are pushing hard to win a strike ballot taking place among 10,000 RMT union members over pay and job cuts. They know the stakes are high.

The possibility of a London-wide strike at Royal Mail grew this week after bosses refused to back down from plans to slash jobs at offices around the capital.

Postal workers in Woolwich, south London, delivered a massive show of solidarity to a sacked colleague by taking strike action on Tuesday this week.

Hundreds of thousands of workers in the Republic of Ireland are set to take part in a general strike on Monday of next week.

The second general strike in two months brought France to a standstill last week.

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Drivers in the Unite union working for First Bus in Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster in South Yorkshire have voted by 403 to 42 in favour of strike action in a consultative ballot.