Strike Follow

Oxford park and ride strike Security staff at Oxford city council’s park and ride on the picket line on Monday of last week. The workers, members of the T&G union, held a one hour strike from 7.30am to 8.30am. Further strikes are set for Wednesday and Friday of this week. The action is about safety. New rotas would have car park staff working alone at night up to 11pm 

Car Workers taking part in an indefinite strike at the Hindustan Motors factory in Uttarpara, in the Indian state of West Bengal, were brutally assaulted by police last week.

The Egyptian government has begun a crackdown on trade unionists at the heart of a recent wave of strikes.

Hundreds of charity workers from a range of organisations are looking to strike as unrest hits the Scottish voluntary sector.

The PCS civil service workers’ union has called a national strike of over 250,000 members in its fight against 104,000 job cuts, low pay and privatisation.

The Transport and General Workers Union has suspended its planned 24-hour strike action on Thursday by over 2,600 pork and poultry workers at Grampian Foods. It has agreed to attend Acas, the Arbitration Conciliation and Advisory Service.

The postal strike at Burslem, Stoke, is reaching a crucial point. On Monday over 100 workers at the delivery office finished a three-day strike. They have now struck for 15 days over a sacking of a 62-year-old worker for alleged aggressive behaviour towards a manager.

Zimbabwean police were mobilised on Tuesday, the first day of a two-day national strike called by the trade unions against growing economic hardship.

Some 4,000 aircraft workers in the Amicus union held an unofficial strike on Friday of last week.

Over 2,000 Southampton council workers struck for 24 hours on Tuesday of last week. The strike was called in protest at the council’s proposal to transfer over 700 jobs to private company Capita.

Some 330 Unison union members working in Hampshire libraries staged a two-day strike last week.

Edinburgh Up to 500 postal workers walked out on unofficial strike at Edinburgh’s mail centre last weekend in a dispute over new working practices and management bullying.