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A planned strike in defence of a sacked teacher, due to take place on Thursday of last week, was called off.

NUT and NASUWT teachers’ union members took joint strike action at the Royal Docks school in Newham, east London, on Thursday of last week.

The RMT transport union began a strike ballot of its 10,000 members on London Underground and Transport for London this week over pay and job cuts.

Around 1,500 RMT transport union members at National Express East Anglia and First Capital Connect are set to strike on Monday of next week over job losses.

Thousands of journalists in the BBC are poised for strike action after workers voted for two one-day strikes against attacks on jobs and conditions.

Striking Community Service Supervisors in Glasgow are now in their 12th week of action. Last week 100 Glasgow City Unison union members, local students and school closure protesters joined the supervisors to lobby Glasgow City Chambers.

The second general strike in two months brought France to a standstill on Thursday. Millions demonstrated in 200 cities and towns around the country. 

Tens of thousands of students demonstrated and went on strike all over Spain last Thursday. They were protesting against the imminent imposition of the Bologna Plan – a European Union directive to homogenise university education.

Workers in the CWU union at the emergency services tele­coms network company, Airwave, struck on Friday of last week and Monday of this week.

The threat of strike action by construction workers last week forced a subcontractor to increase the wages of the Polish workers it employs on one of its sites.

Derry Journal Jobs have been saved at the Derry Journal in Ireland after National Union of Journalists (NUJ) members voted 100 percent in favour of strike action.

London Arthur Scargill, leader of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) during the great strike of 1984-5, delivered a robust defence of the action at a meeting last week.