Strike Follow

An all-out walkout by homelessness workers in Glasgow has entered its ninth week—and has got council leaders running scared, reports Raymie Kiernan

Workers at London Metropolitan University struck today, Thursday, against bosses’ plans to axe 165 jobs.

Strikers shut Small Heath school in Birmingham on Wednesday of last week in protest at plans to turn it into an academy. The walkout involved ATL, NASUWT and NUT union members.

The indefinite strike by porters at Ninewells and Royal Victoria hospitals in Dundee is going strong as it enters its seventh week. 

National Gallery workers were defiant as they began a new ten day strike today, Tuesday.

The all-out strike at Labour-run Glasgow City Council by homelessness caseworkers entered its seventh week on Tuesday of this week.

The firefighters’ FBU union biennial conference had just begun as Socialist Worker went to press.

Porters at Ninewells and Royal Victoria hospitals in Dundee have raised serious concerns about how bosses are dealing with their indefinite strike.

The all-out strike by Glasgow City Council workers entered its sixth week on Tuesday of this week. 

Refuse lorry drivers in Barking and Dagenham, east London, were continuing an eight-day strike as Socialist Worker went to press.

South London council workers have launched a wave of strikes against privatisation.

Homelessness caseworkers in Glasgow are into their fifth week of an all-out strike as council bosses desperately claim that it’s “business as usual”.