Strike Follow

Some 140 journalists at the Financial Times newspaper have voted to ballot for strike action unless management cancels its programme of compulsory redundancies.

Workers at the BBC World Service in the NUJ union have voted overwhelmingly for strike action over plans for redundancies, job relocations and for shifting programme making operations overseas.

Workers at the Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post group in the north of England are set to strike against 18 planned job cuts.

Journalists working at the Morning Star newspaper have called a one-day strike over pay, with NUJ union members set to walk out on Monday of next week.

Building workers at two sites went on unofficial strike on Wednesday of last week as part of the battle over jobs in the construction industry.

Workers at Thames Water in the GMB union may be balloted for strike action over job cuts and a threat to outsource call centre work to India.

Further education lecturers in eight colleges across Britain took part in a solid one-day strike over pay on Thursday of last week.

Arriva Wales An unofficial strike by drivers at Arriva Trains Wales forced the cancellation of more than 100 trains last Sunday.

Over 700 workers at DB Schenker (formerly EWS), Britain’s biggest rail freight company, are to ballot from Wednesday of this week for strikes over jobs, pay and conditions.

London Sovereign strikes suspended Strike action by bus workers at Transdev Sovereign in north west London planned for Wednesday of this week has been suspended.

Some 21 community service supervisors employed by Glasgow council are now entering their sixth week of indefinite strike action over single status grading.

"Nobody notices when there’s a strike anymore", French president Nicolas Sarkozy declared last summer. On Thursday of last week he was made to eat his words.