Strike Follow

Over 2,600 members of the RMT and TSSA rail workers’ unions are currently balloting for strike action over threats to jobs and conditions at the failed Metronet consortium on London Underground.

Some 1,700 workers at helicopter firm Agusta Westland took part in a 24-hour strike on Friday of last week.

Three weeks of indefinite strike action by 600 social care workers in the Unison union in Glasgow have won concessions over regrading from the New Labour-run council.

Following a meeting between Royal management and the CWU post workers’ union the strikes set for this evening have been suspended.

Some 1.4 million workers in local government moved a step closer to strike action over pay last week.

"Regrade, not degrade!" was the defiant chant of hundreds of social care workers in Glasgow on Friday of last week as they voted overwhelmingly to continue their indefinite strike into a third week.

Health workers are to walk out over pay cuts in the first strike at a Sheffield hospital for more than 30 years.

Workers in Salford won a stunning victory last week.

The CWU has called a national demonstration and rally in London on Tuesday 21 August to increase the pressure on management as part of the next round of action.

During a week of official function strikes, a spate of unofficial post strikes broke out across Britain last week.

The fourth solid postal strike brought services to a halt across the country last week. Socialist Worker received reports from the picket lines.

The ballot for strike action to defend leading health union activist Karen Reissmann – who has been suspended from her job as a psychiatric nurse – is tapping into a wider mood of anger at the Manchester mental health trust that employs her.