A wave of strikes and occupations is sweeping the Gulf state of Bahrain. In the latest strike construction workers downed tools and refused to leave their labour camp.
Teachers in the NUT union in Darton High school in Barnsley took part in a one-day strike on Thursday of last week after management decided not to honour an agreement signed with Acas two years ago.
Around 900 members of the PCS and Prospect civil service workers’ unions working for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) are balloting for strike action in a dispute over pay.
Council workers in Birmingham are set to take further action over the Tory-Liberal Democrat council’s implementation of job cuts under the guise of single status.
Teachers took strike action at two schools in Camden, north London, today over plans to scrap recruitment and retention (R&R) payments to new teachers. The payments are designed to ease the financial burden teachers face when entering the profession on low starting salaries with student debts to pay off.
Miner Krzysztof Labadz
‘At midnight on Thursday of last week we finished our strike and occupation of the Budryk mine. This lasted 46 days, with 25 days of underground occupation.
Teachers in the NUT union at Pimlico School, central London, struck on Wednesday of last week. The strike was sparked after lunch breaks had been cut from 45 minutes to 30 minutes.
Strike at Remploy
Birkenhead and Aintree Remploy workers are set to strike this week in protest at government plans to close 28 of its 83 factories, which employ 5,000 disabled people in total.
Teachers in the National Union of Teachers (NUT) are preparing for a ballot for strike action over their below-inflation pay offer. The ballot is due to start on 28 February.
