Around 450 workers at housing charity Shelter struck on Wednesday of last week and Monday of this week – in the first strikes in the 41 years of the organisation’s existence.
Workers at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency took the first strike in their history on Thursday of last week over pay. The strike, by PCS and Prospect union members, severely affected services.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) pay strike next week is set to be the "strongest yet", say activists. The national strike by PCS union members is due for Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 March.
More than 450 workers at housing charity Shelter are striking today over management proposals to scrap incremental pay rises, increase working hours and downgrade posts.
Shelter strike to defend conditions
Over 450 workers at Shelter, the national housing charity, were set to strike on Wednesday of this week, after voting by 211 to 78 for action over pay, grading and hours.
A successful strike by over 8,500 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in the Department for Transport on Friday of last week hit back at New Labour’s 2 percent public sector pay limit.
Over 50 signallers, members of the RMT union, in the Lincoln area were set to launch their second strike on Tuesday of this week over Network Rail’s failure to honour an agreement covering displaced staff.
Karen Reissmann, the nurse and leading union activist at the centre of a long-running strike for the right to speak out against cuts and privatisation, has been delivered a vicious blow – not by her former employers, but by those conducting elections in her own union, Unison.
