Strike Follow

One of the most crucial strikes in the National Health Service for more than a decade has erupted in defence of sacked union rep and senior nurse Karen Reissmann.

"Since my sacking, trade unionists and campaigners have rallied magnificently to support our strike," Karen Reissmann told Socialist Worker.

Workers in the GMB union at Swansea council began a strike ballot this week over a single status pay deal.

The Writers Guild of Great Britain (WGGB), which is affiliated to the TUC, has pledged its support to the 12,000 members of the Writers Guild of America who have been on strike since last week.

Train drivers in the Aslef union working for Silverlink struck for the third time on Friday of last week in defence of their pension rights.

Workers at Cadbury’s four chocolate factory sites have voted in favour of holding a ballot on strike action.

Over 80,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are being balloted to strike over the threatened imposition of a below inflation pay offer.

Day Centre workers in Glasgow have begun their fifth week of an indefinite strike.

A solid strike by US screenwriters, which began on Monday of this week, is severely hitting the US television networks.

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have jailed over 120 workers following a strike (Socialist Worker, 3 November) that brought construction on prestigious building projects in the oil rich state to a halt.

A growing revolt by postal workers is threatening to scupper the deal negotiated by their CWU union leadership to end the dispute with Royal Mail.

Tens of thousands of PCS members in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are to ballot for strike action over their pay offer.