Strike Follow

Members of the NUJ journalists’ union at Newsquest York were set to strike for five days from Thursday of this week over management’s below-inflation pay offer of 3 percent.

Bus drivers in the Unite union at Transdev Harrogate and District have voted in favour of strike action over a new driving schedule and rota system.

Almost 600 bus drivers in the Unite union at Brighton and Hove Buses are set to strike over a pay deal that would also make changes to workers’ conditions.

This famous photo from the Miners’ Strike of 1984-85 is one of many images on show at the Don McPhee: Photographer exhibition at the Guardian’s Newsroom visitor centre. McPhee died last year and the Guardian is celebrating the life and work of one of its great news photographers. The exhibition runs until 27 June at 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1, and admission is free of charge

East Dunbartonshire Council workers in East Dunbartonshire Council have taken to the picket lines in protest against the single status pay agreement.

Unite union stewards at the housing charity Shelter were set to meet on Thursday of this week to discuss whether to take further strike action and to plan the next stage of their campaign.

The growing campaign against Gordon Brown’s war on public sector workers took an important step forward this week after local government workers rejected their employers’ pay offer and moved to ballot for strike action.

It is now official. Any proposal by an employer to transfer staff to a new employer can be the subject of a trade dispute and strike action.

The concerted and united strike action against Gordon Brown’s pay limits that took place on 24 April looks set to be repeated on a larger scale in coming months after key unions moved closer to strike action.

Garment factory bosses in Bangladesh have been forced to hand out sacks of subsidised rice to workers in response to a growing strike wave in protest at rising food prices.

Tens of thousands of dock workers across the west coast of the US struck on 1 May in protest at the wars and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Members of the GMB union who work at the British Medical Association (BMA) have voted overwhelmingly for strike action over an imposed system of performance related pay.