Strike Follow

BAGGAGE HANDLERS at Liverpool's John Lennon airport began a five-day strike on Monday.

AROUND 100,000 civil servants in the PCS union are set to ballot to take strike action over their awful pay deal in January.

For the first time in nearly two decades an all-out strike by workers at Shorts engineering, one of the biggest manufacturing plants in Northern Ireland, started last week.

WORKERS AT Sainsbury's distribution centre covering supermarkets across the north of England have voted to reject the company's pay offer and may be moving to a ballot for strike action.

STUDENTS AT King's College, Cambridge, have won a victory after a rent strike lasting the whole of this term.

AROUND 150 bin workers in north Lanarkshire in Scotland struck on Friday of last week. They are set to escalate strike action after council chiefs hired scab labour.

CIVIL SERVANTS in job centres and benefit offices across London walked out on strike on Thursday and Friday of last week in fury at the government imposing a pay offer.

TUBE WORKERS were set to strike a blow for safety and against privatisation with a two-day go-slow next week.

HUNDREDS OF workers at Sunderland University held a one-day strike last week against compulsory redundancies. Nine lecturers' jobs are under threat. "Lecturers have worked against the odds to keep standards high and deliver good results for students," said one Natfhe union member. "But university management seems to regard cost-cutting as more important that the quality of education provision."

IT IS good news that Nissan workers in Sunderland began a strike ballot this week. It is over management's refusal to talk to the Amicus union about compulsory relocation of the company's purchasing department. It could be the first strike in the plant's history and would shatter the myth of the great "partnership" employer.

HUNDREDS OF Tyneside shipyard workers staged an unofficial "wildcat" strike last week over allegations of bullying in the workplace. The one-day walkout was by around 600 platers, welders and riggers in the Amicus and GMB unions at the giant Amec shipyard in Wallsend on Tyneside.

WORKERS AT the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria escalated their dispute over pay on Friday of last week to two shifts out on strike. This follows an earlier well supported strike. The BNFL company has been dragging its feet over ending the pay gap between white collar and manual workers. The firm made an agreement four years ago to end the £2,000 difference between the workers.