Strike Follow

Workers in the Unite union at the charity Shelter were striking around the country on Thursday as part of a 48 hour strike against longer hours and low pay. The picket line at Shelter’s Old Street headquarters in east London fluctuated between ten and 15 people, while there were at least ten at the City offices. Pickets at Old Street said the strike was absolutely solid.

There is far less traffic on the roads of Birmingham today as the city has essentially shut down. That’s no surprise in a city with 25,000 people on strike.

The fightback started today. Up and down the country more than 400,000 workers are on strike. Teachers, lecturers, civil service workers and 20,000 Birmingham council workers are out.

The combination of war, economic crisis and disillusionment with Labour is opening up a new debate among thousands of working class people about the sort of politics we need to ensure a better future for the majority of the world’s population.

Class politics returned to Britain this week as 450,000 workers prepared to take strike action against Gordon Brown’s 2 percent pay limit.

Shelter workers to walk out again Around 450 workers at the Shelter housing charity are set to join the action on "Fightback Thursday". Shelter workers in the Unite union have called a 48-hour strike starting on 24 April – the same day that hundreds of thousands of other workers are set to strike.

Schools across the country are buzzing with discussions about the teachers’ strike due to take place on Thursday of this week.

Over 100,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union were set to join other public sector workers on strike on Thursday of this week.

This Thursday will see tens of thousands of lecturers in further education colleges walk out, joining the 250,000 teachers and 100,000 civil service workers in the biggest show of opposition over pay for many years.

Members of the NUJ journalists’ union at Express Newspapers voted on Monday of this week to call off a three day strike set for Tuesday to Thursday.

Over 800 students walked out of St Aelreds Catholic Technology College in St Helens, Merseyside, on Thursday of last week. The students were protesting over a planned merger with Newton High School and the creation of a new academy at the Newton High site.

The threat of strike action by maintenance workers on London Underground has won written guarantees from management over the outsourcing of work, pension rights and travel facilities.