Strike Follow

'CIVIL SERVANTS do not vote to take strike action lightly, but the time has come for a decent living wage for all. The image of civil servants as bowler-hatted Sir Humphreys on fat cat pay and a huge pension is wrong. Almost 15,000 civil servants earn less than £10,000 a year.

Nearly a thousand workers on the picket line. And that was before the one-day strike at Land Rover's Solihull and Gaydon plants called for Monday of next week.

THE THREAT of strike action has made management at Blackburn College concede over pay.

REFUSE WORKERS and street cleansing workers in Hackney, east London, were due to start a four-day strike this week-and their escalation of the fight has management worried.

Scottish nursery nurses ballot on all-out strike More than 4,000 of Scotland's nursery nurses still in dispute with local councils are to ballot on an all-out indefinite strike.

University teachers and support staff in the AUT union are balloting for strike action against a background of a national debate on fees and the future of higher education.

A CRUCIAL battle is coming in the civil service. The results of the strike ballot in the PCS civil servants' union was due out shortly after Socialist Worker went to press.

UNISON MEMBERS in Newham council look set to get the go-ahead for an official strike ballot to fight the New Labour authority's attack on their union.

AROUND 400 workers on the Tyne and Wear Metro were to start a strike this Sunday in a dispute over working hours.

AROUND 750 warehouse workers at a huge distribution centre of the supermarket chain Sainsbury's held a 24-hour strike from Wednesday night last week. Further action was set to take place this week.

THE THREAT of strike action has forced the general secretary of the train drivers' Aslef union to withdraw a shocking union-busting letter he issued to his own staff.

CIVIL SERVANTS are gearing up for a major pay battle. More than 100,000 members of the PCS union are voting to take strike action over their appallingly low pay.