Around 1.5 million workers from at least ten unions could soon be on strike over pensions. It is a prospect that will frighten Labour ministers and give heart to all those who want to put an end to the slaughter of workers’ pensions.
Over 90,000 civil service workers in the PCS union working in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were to strike on Thursday and Friday of this week. They are protesting against New Labour’s plans to cut 30,000 jobs in the DWP.
December saw a one-day mass strike and demonstrations in Ireland in support of seafarers’ wages. Irish workers produced the latest in a growing series of mass strikes across the world.
Over 90,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are set to strike on Thursday and Friday of next week in the first stage of a battle to defend jobs and services.
Organised labour in India have shown that they have the power to resist multinational capital. A militant strike by workers at the Toyota-Kirloskar Motors factory in Bangalore, southern India has bosses on the back foot.
A massive battle over pensions could be on its way. In a remarkable week, the opening shots were fired in seven major disputes, all of which could see strike action.
Todmorden High School
Eighteen members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) at Todmorden High School, West Yorkshire, were due to strike on Thursday of this week over pay restructuring.
Some 370 members of the RMT union on Virgin’s Cross Country line struck last weekend, the third time they have held a one-day strike in a dispute over Sunday working.
Construction workers at Heathrow airport’s Terminal 5 site were set to strike from Friday of this week to Tuesday of next week in an ongoing dispute over bonus pay.
The strike by 19 caretakers in the Unison union at Huddersfield Technical College completed its tenth week of all out action with the outcome in the balance.
