Thousands of members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in the Ministry of Defence and the Identity and Passport Service are currently taking part in a consultative ballot to strike on Friday 30 March over pay.
Signalling staff in the RMT union in Scotland struck for 48 hours from Wednesday of last week. The dispute is over implementation of a national agreement on the 35-hour week with Network Rail.
Over 300 workers at Manchester’s mental health and social care trust have won a victory against their bosses following a campaign that included strike action.
Some 70 traffic enforcement workers across Enfield in north London in the GMB union went on strike for three days last week in their dispute with National Car Parks (NCP).
Activists in the PCS civil service workers’ union are organising to make Tuesday 1 May the next national strike in their dispute over 104,000 job cuts, pay and privatisation.
Underground cleaners lobby parliament
London Underground cleaners in the T&G union lobbied parliament last week against plans for over 200 compulsory redundancies. The T&G and RMT unions called off a strike ballot after management withdrew the plans
The general strike in Guinea, West Africa, ended this week after President Lansana Conte appointed a prime minister from a list supplied by the trade unions.
Egypt’s winter of discontent is growing. Following victories in major strikes last month, 13,000 workers at the Samanoud textile factory walked out on Thursday of last week, demanding an increase in food allowances.
Organising For Fighting Unions (OFFU) will hold a major rally in London on 1 May – the same day that a quarter of a million civil service workers in the PCS union are likely to strike.
