Strike Follow

Civil service workers across Greater Manchester joined the national PCS union strike.

An 18-day general strike in Guinea, West Africa, has won concessions from the dictatorial regime of President Lansana Conte.

Over 6,500 tube workers in the RMT union are balloting for strikes over pay across London Underground.

Some 130 CWU union members working on the Television Licensing contract for Capita in Bristol took strike action on 29 and 30 January in response to a business decision to move work to Mumbai in India.

A legal challenge has halted a strike ballot among 10,000 HGV drivers working across Britain for Royal Mail.

Council care workers in Southampton picketed six care homes as part of a three-day strike over proposed pay cuts from last Saturday.

Some 20 teaching assistants and secretarial staff at Holbrook primary school in Coventry were set to strike for three days from Wednesday of this week over a single status pay deal.

Thousands of Rotherham council workers in South Yorkshire could strike in response to the council imposing a single status pay deal.

The strike by quarter of a million civil service workers in the PCS union against job losses on Wednesday of last week had a huge impact.

Striking textile workers in Morocco are appealing for solidarity. Their strike has become a major battle against a powerful multinational over the right to form a union.

Rail workers in the Egyptian capital Cairo have struck for higher wages. Over 700 railway drivers went on strike at Cairo's Misr train station on Saturday of last week.

Into battle for public services