Strike Follow

More than 3,000 classroom assistants in Northern Ireland went on all-out strike this week.

An argument is raging about the future of the relationship between the postal workers’ CWU union and the Labour Party.

This week postal workers have dealt Royal Mail bosses a massive blow with our two 48-hour strikes. The action was extremely solid across the country and management’s prediction that this strike would be the end of the union is now looking very foolish.

Thousands of postal workers restarted their long running dispute with Royal Mail today by walking out in the first of two planned 48-hour strikes.

Train drivers in Germany announced a national one-day strike to take place on Friday of this week, after negotiations with national rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) broke down.

The United Auto Workers (UAW) union called off a strike by 73,000 workers at the General Motors (GM) US car firm, despite two days of solid action last week, after reaching a deal with the company.

Over 3,000 classroom assistants took strike action across Northern Ireland on Wednesday of last week to stop attacks on their pay and conditions.

Some 40 members of the NUJ journalists' union at the Coventry Telegraph are balloting for strike action over inadequate editorial staffing levels.

Health workers in Swansea have succeeded in winning a month’s suspension of planned ward closures and job losses after threatening to go on strike.

Some 36 ICSL Accord refuse collection workers in Islington in north London went on strike last week. Workers formed picket lines outside the ICSL offices in Caledonian Road.

Hundreds of workers building one of Wales’s biggest engineering projects went on strike last week because one of them was taunted with Nazi salutes.

Hundreds of thousands of members of the Unison union in local government are set to be balloted to strike over pay.