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Heathrow Express to strike over pay More than 70 workers on Heathrow Express were set to strike on Thursday this week.

Workers who supply hospitals across England were set to strike this week as part of their battle against privatisation. It will be the first national strike in the NHS for 18 years.

Merseyside firefighters are engaged in a bitter and very important strike.

The first national strike in the health service for 18 years began on Thursday evening. The 24-hour strike by 1,000 members of the Unison union at NHS Logistics saw low paid workers in direct confrontation with New Labour’s privatisation policies.

The result of a strike ballot by council workers in the Unison union in Coventry over a single status deal was expected this week.

Management at Exeter mail centre are trying to claw back their position after a recent unofficial strike by postal workers won an important victory.

The threat of strike action has won a victory on London Underground’s Jubilee Line.

Workers facing the biggest ever privatisation of the health service have voted by three to one in favour of strike action.

Firefighters on Merseyside have walked out on strike for another eight days in what is shaping up to be a crucial struggle against neo-liberal cuts in the fire service and management attacks on the Fire Brigades Union (FBU).

Workers at Chep UK in Pontefract, South Yorkshire, are to strike for five days from Monday.

Some 8,000 firefighters and their supporters marched and rallied in Liverpool today in support of Merseyside FBU's strike against cuts to the fire service and management bullying.

Workers in Bangladesh staged a national hartal (general strike) on Wednesday of last week. The victorious strike followed the shooting dead of six demonstrators protesting against a plan by a British company to construct an opencast mine.