The intense mistrust of privatisation coupled with anger at the rich who are pocketing state bailouts, means that there is a groundswell of support for the campaign against the post sell-off.
"Our most recent four-day strike ran from Thursday to Sunday last week and it was absolutely solid. The strike has been well supported and all 140 NUJ members of the chapel have been involved in picketing and winning support.
Around 60 NUJ and Bectu union members in the South Asian services at the BBC World Service went on strike on Thursday of last week against the offshoring and outsourcing of their sections and resulting compulsory redundancies.
Workers at One Housing Group in Tower Hamlets, east London, are balloting for strike action against the dismissal of their senior Unison union steward Debbie Cordrey.
Strike action by rail workers could severely disrupt Britain’s train network after two unions announced ballots of over 10,000 members at Network Rail and three other major train companies over job and pension cuts.
Millions of workers in Italy last week joined a general strike against attempts by the government and the bosses to make them pay for the economic crisis.
The indefinite strike by 21 community service supervisors in the Unison union continues into its seventh week. The workers are fighting a single status pay deal that would mean some workers losing up to £2,000 a year and extend the working week by an extra day.
Essa academy staff defend conditions
Workers at the Essa academy (formerly Hayward school) in Bolton are pushing for a strike ballot to defend their trade union agreement against management attempts to water it down.
