About 270 car workers at Dura Automotive Systems in Llanelli, South Wales, are on indefinite strike to get decent redundancy money when they lose their jobs.
The result was due this week from an important strike ballot over transfers of work without agreement. Although it covers only just over 1,000 people, their action could halt the entire Royal Mail operation in Britain.
Some 500 Post Office staff across 34 offices in Greater Manchester and South West Wales are being balloted for strikes over the franchising out of Crown office services to WH Smith.
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Postal workers in Carterton and Witney are to strike on 24, 25 and 29 August following an overwhelming vote for action over management bullying. Carterton voted 25 to one for a strike and Witney voted 55 to seven.
Workers at NHS Logistics, the not for profit agency that supplies hospitals across the country, are set to ballot for strike action in their fight against privatisation.
I got involved with the strike on the second day. Someone in the flat downstairs who worked at Grunwick told me, "It’s a little place you’ll never have heard of, but we’re on strike."
Workers at NHS Logistics, the not for profit body that supplies hospitals across the country, are expected to give notice of a strike ballot this week.
More than 200 porters, domestics and catering staff employed by contractors Initial Rentokill at Whipps Cross hospital in Leytonstone, east London, struck for two days last week.
Haringey bin workers have been on indefinite all out strike since Monday 31 July. Members of the T&G union voted unanimously for strike action after Accord, the private company who run the service, threatened to remove two bin lorries.
