Strike Follow

Over 7,800 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in magistrate’s courts across England and Wales are balloting on strikes over pay.

Students at Huddersfield Technical College in Yorkshire have rallied to the defence of college caretakers who are out on indefinite strike over pay.

Three rounds of strike action by firefighters in the West Midlands have started to win significant concessions from the brigade.

Drivers at First Bus in Staffordshire and Cheshire were due to vote on Thursday on a new deal offered by the company.

Some 26,000 lecturers in over 220 further education colleges were set to strike on Wednesday of this week in a pay dispute that goes to the heart of the lack of funding for predominantly working class education.

Ground staff at London Luton airport are set to be asked whether they would support moves for strike action after the T&G union discovered what it says is the exploitation of Polish workers.

Huddersfield technical college Caretakers at Huddersfield technical college completed their second week of strike action this week. They are fighting for a wage increase to get parity with school caretakers in the area.

Firefighters across the West Midlands struck on Monday night in an important dispute over new shifts and working arrangements.

Members of the RMT rail union working for Metronet are being balloted for strike action.

Lizwane Ndlovu, a Zimbabwean asylum seeker who went on hunger strike during the summer while in Yarl’s Wood detention centre, died last week.

All out in Huddersfield Caretakers at Huddersfield Technical college have entered their second week of indefinite strike action to win equal pay with their council counterparts.

About 140 cleaners at the Houses of Parliament are set to strike on Wednesday of next week.