Strike Follow

Workers in Spain and Portugal planned to walk out in their first ever joint general strike on Wednesday of this week.

The Greek parliament passed a fresh austerity budget by the skin of its teeth last week—but already it faces renewed resistance as a fresh general strike was set for Wednesday.

Workers at both Amnesty International’s UK branch and its International Secretariat (IS) are set to strike together on Tuesday of next week.

The Greek government narrowly managed to pass its latest austerity measures on Wednesday in the face of a 48-hour general strike. Only 153 out of 300 MPs voted in favour of the measures.

Less than five months into its term Greece’s coalition government is on the brink of collapse. It faces the biggest strike wave since the troika of the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and European Union first came to the country in 2010.

Round two in DHL dispute DHL delivery drivers at the Neasden depot in north west London were set to strike on Friday of this week and the following Monday over pay and conditions. This second round of strikes follows a below-inflation pay offer.

Teachers at Stratford Academy in east London began a two-day strike on Tuesday of this week.

Greece was gripped by a 48-hour general strike as Socialist Worker went to press, in an escalation of the growing strike movement.

Medical secretaries, admin and clerical workers at three West Yorkshire hospitals struck today, Thursday, against redundancies and pay cuts.

Tesco lorry drivers in Doncaster began a three day strike today against their new bosses’ plans to sack them all.

Millions of workers in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece are set to walk out together in less than two weeks time, in an unprecedented general strike across southern Europe.

Cleaners on London Midland trains from Bletchley and Northampton depots, East Coast mainline, First Transpennine Express and Tyne and Wear Metro were set to strike Friday and Saturday of this week against poverty pay.