Strike Follow

In an outrageous attack on trade union democracy, London bus operators have used anti-union laws to stop a strike that would have seen more than 14,000 drivers take action on Wednesday of this week.

Some 270,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union are set for a national strike and a programme of hard-hitting industrial action after voting for action over pay.

Teachers in the NUT union have less than two weeks to build the yes vote in their national ballot for strike action over pay.

School teachers in Derby and Bolton have been on strike this week against plans to turn their schools into academies.

Members of the UCU lecturers’ union at Nottingham Trent university struck on Tuesday of this week in protest at management threats to derecognise their union.

Hundreds of workers in Liverpool unanimously voted to say they would take strike action against redundancies at a mass meeting on Thursday of last week.

There is a serious fight on in the NUT teachers’ union to win the ballot for strike action over pay.

Barnsley college was brought to a virtual standstill on Tuesday of last week by a strike by over 200 lecturers in the UCU union.

Bank workers in the Unite union at the State Bank of India have voted overwhelmingly to strike over pay, and their terms and conditions.

Effective strike action last week by 450 rail signallers and signal supervisors in the RMT transport union in Scotland has won serious gains from their Network Rail employer. The workers were angry at the company’s plans to impose roster changes at short notice.

Management at Metrobus, part of the Go-Ahead transport group, went to the High Court just hours before last week’s strike. They won a ruling to stop 1,000 drivers in the Unite union taking their second day of strike action.

The stakes are rising in the London bus workers' pay campaign, with around 5,000 workers striking last Friday and workers at two major companies voting overwhelmingly to join an even bigger strike on Wednesday of next week.