Strike Follow

Some 600 catering and cleaning staff have gone on strike in Aberdeen. The women workers, members of the T&G union, are demanding equal pay and backdated bonuses under the single status agreement.

A one-day strike by thousands of lecturers in the AUT and Natfhe unions across Britain took place on tuesday of last week.

Plymouth postal workers struck for a day last week, the second time they have taken action in their latest dispute.

Tuesday 28 March will see nearly 1.5 million workers strike over pensions in the biggest show of unity since the General Strike of 1926.

Post Office bosses’ refusal to abide by an agreement they had signed just days before led to a strike at Plymouth’s north central delivery office on Monday.

Members of the GMB union at more than 20 Asda depots are balloting on strike action in a dispute over pay and conditions. A strike could affect supplies to about 300 stores.

Dinner ladies from schools across Hackney, east London, staged an unofficial strike on Wednesday of last week.

Ambulance workers in Bristol and the wider Avon region are to ballot for strike action over the agenda for change pay and conditions deal. The ballot involves 350 members of the Unison union.

The unofficial all-out strike by construction workers at Cottam power station near Nottingham was continuing as Socialist Worker went to press.

Higher education workers in the AUT and Natfhe unions struck over pay on Tuesday.

Teachers strike against job cuts Members of the NUT teaching union at Mayville Primary School, east London, held a one-day strike on Thursday of last week.

Next week we will know if 1.5 million workers are ready to confront the government in what the unions are calling the biggest action since the General Strike of 1926.