Strike Follow

A STRIKE ballot of 8,000 TGWU union members at key airports was due to start this week, prompting headlines about holiday misery and chaos.

‘The thing that surprised me was the way Paul Foot could approach workers. The first time I saw this was when I took him to see some pickets out on strike in the 1970s.

WHISKY WORKERS at one of Scotland’s largest privately owned companies planned to strike this week over pay.

WORKERS IN BBC Technology were set to strike this week in protest at privatisation.

SOME 90,000 low paid workers were due to walk out on strike on Thursday and Friday of this week.

AN IMPORTANT strike ballot is taking place at AH Marks Ltd, a Bradford-based chemicals firm.

THE THREAT of a strike has won major concessions from the Bernard Matthews turkey company.

WORKERS AT the F Bender Ltd paper tableware company in Wrexham returned to work last week after a five-day strike over pay.

THIS YEAR’S Durham Miners’ Gala took place last week themed around the 20th anniversary of the Great Strike.

IT’S HARD to find the words to express my contempt for London mayor Ken Livingstone’s call for tube workers to scab on last week’s RMT strike.

THERE IS a full spectrum assault on the PCS union and jobs in the DWP.

DURING LAST week’s tube strike the same right wing media that viciously attacked firefighters and post workers for daring to strike laid into tube workers and the RMT union.