Strike Follow

Bus drivers in the Unite union working for CT Plus in Hackney, east London, struck on Monday morning over the sacking of Dennis Shine, a union rep.

Forty years ago this week a strike for better pay by women machinists at Ford’s Dagenham plant began. Their fight thrust women’s demands for equal pay with men to the centre stage.

Around 7,000 further education lecturers in the UCU union in London are set to strike on Monday of next week in the next stage of the battle against Gordon Brown’s public sector pay limit.

Copeland Refuse workers at Copeland council in Whitehaven, Cumbria, were set to start an all out indefinite strike from Tuesday of this week.

Community union members at Wybone bin factory in Barnsley staged their fourth strike on Friday of last week.

Members of the NASUWT teachers’ union at Sinfin Community School in Derby were out on strike on Wednesday of last week in protest against plans to turn the school into an academy.

A lively and enthusiastic 25-strong picket on Thursday of last week marked the start of a five-day strike over pay by 34 journalists at Newsquest York.

Workers in the Unite union at Blackburn with Darwen council struck on Friday of last week in protest at plans to impose a single status pay structure that would cut some wage packets by thousands of pounds a year.

This book is about a period that, for so many of us who were involved, was one of the most memorable and extraordinary of our lives.

Redistribute the wealth at Argos Two thousand distribution workers in the Unite union at Argos are currently balloting to strike over pay.

Two sacked airport workers in Northern Ireland are on hunger and thirst strike for the second time in a month.

Blackburn with Darwen Refuse workers in Blackburn with Darwen council are planning another one-day strike with a mass rally through Blackburn town centre on Friday of this week.