Strike Follow

Thousands of members of the PCS and Prospect civil service workers’ unions working in magistrate’s courts across England and Wales, held a national strike on 20 December.

The strike by 19 caretakers at Huddersfield Technical College has entered its tenth week and has reached a critical point.

The GMB union has won significant concessions over pensions following the strike before Christmas by 6,000 British Gas engineers.

Over 6,000 British Gas engineers struck a blow for everyone’s pension rights when they walked out across Britain on Monday of this week.

The consortium that runs two-thirds of London Underground’s infrastructure has agreed not to outsource current work in the face of a threatened three-day strike.

Members of the PCS and Prospect civil service workers’ unions working in magistrate’s courts across England and Wales have voted overwhelmingly for a national strike in a dispute over pay.

This is a key week for the sacked Gate Gourmet workers.

Workers across Auckland, New Zealand, joined the world’s first strike at Starbucks coffee shops last month.

The campaign to defend Eileen Short, who is being victimised by Tower Hamlets council for her trade union activity and campaigns in defence of council housing, has stepped up a gear with fellow workers in her section planning two days of strike action.

Zimbabwean asylum seekers Thando Dube and Amanda Sibiya were on their 35th day of hunger strike at the Yarl’s Wood detention centre at the beginning of this week.

Nearly 6,000 GMB union members working as British Gas engineers have voted by four to one to strike over pensions.

About 100 RMT union members at South Eastern Trains (SET) are set to strike for 24 hours on Monday of next week.