Strike Follow

Action over unfair disciplinary procedures on London Undergound is escalating as 5,000 RMT union members join drivers in balloting for strike action.

It's less than two weeks before the first groups of an eventual 1.5 million workers are due to begin balloting for strikes. From 20 February ten unions will start strike ballots over the threats to local government workers’ and firefighters’ pensions.

A massive strike over pensions at the end of March, involving 1.5 million workers, came a step closer last week after important moves by the Unison and the GMB trade unions.

A strike by around 80,000 civil service workers in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) brought job centres, benefit offices, the Child Support Agency and call centres to a halt on Thursday and Friday of last week.

Teachers in the NUT union at Elthorne Park high school in Ealing, west London, were due to walk out on strike on Thursday of this week against proposed pay cuts after negotiations broke down last week.

Pro-democracy activists burnt an effigy of the Nepalese King Gyanendra during protests that rocked the Himalayan kingdom last week.

Over 300 postal workers in Belfast were on unofficial strike on Wednesday morning in protest at management's use of disciplinary procedures.

Hundred of bus workers in Teheran, Iran were detained by the state last week in an attempt to prevent strike action, according to Amnesty International.

Opposition political parties in Nepal have called a general strike, set for Thursday of this week, to protest against direct rule by King Gyanendra.

Three thousand First Bus workers in Glasgow are set to ballot for strike action in support of a driver who was sacked.

Unions representing university academics and academic related staff – the AUT and the lecturers’ Natfhe union are currently balloting their members for strike action.

Royal Mail management is making an outrageous attack on postal workers’ right to strike. It requires a national response.