Strike Follow

A ballot for industrial action among First Eastern Counties bus drivers in Norfolk has seen 93 percent of staff vote for strikes. Drivers say they have now been pushed to the limit by their employers.

Staff at Scottish Enterprise were considering a new pay deal as Socialist Worker went to press. If it is not acceptable then 1,000 workers were to strike on Thursday this week.

Vince Rutterford, who died recently, joined the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) at the beginning of the miners’ strike in 1984.

Ninety six workers in the test area of Bristol’s Rolls Royce plant have entered their second week of indefinite strike action in confident mood.

Some 3,500 civilian staff working for the police in Scotland took part in a 24 hour strike over pay on Thursday of last week.

Council workers in Sefton, Merseyside, were set for a 48-hour strike this week over the victimisation of activists in their Unison union branch.

Fire Brigades Union members in Suffolk are taking strike action each morning until Wednesday of next week in an escalation of their battle against job cuts.

Low paid workers in Bradford working at Initial Textile Services, part of the Rentokil group, struck on Thursday of last week.

Some 9,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in the department for work and pensions (DWP) are set to be balloted from Monday 5 September to take strike action over job cuts.

Northampton Management has launched an attack on seven CWU union members, four of them reps, in the wake of the recent strike.

Firefighters in Suffolk took three bouts of strike action on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of last week in their campaign against 12 job losses.

Journalists at Coventry Newspapers suspended their all-out strike against low pay on Wednesday of last week. The NUJ union members returned to work after management agreed a statement with the union.