Strike Follow

Workers in Greece took part in a general strike today, Thursday, in protest at the Greek government’s plans to push through even harsher austerity measures on the country’s population.

Lecturers across University of East London (UEL) campuses walked out today, Thursday, in a dispute over workload and management bullying.

A head teacher at an east London school is threatening to cut teachers’ pay if they take part in action short of a strike.

Over 150 people linking arms around the international secretariat of Amnesty International in Islington, north London, this morning (Wednesday).

Lecturers in the EIS teaching union in Scotland are set to strike on Tuesday of next week over pay. The workers are fighting a below-inflation 1 percent pay offer.

More than 100 striking Tesco lorry drivers marched through Doncaster, south Yorkshire, on Tuesday of last week in defence of their jobs.

Lecturers at Gateshead College staged a highly successful strike on Wednesday of last week. The UCU union members are fighting management attempts to impose unacceptable changes to their working conditions.

Show us the 1972 documents Construction workers are demanding the release of government documents relating to the 1972 builders’ strike.

RMT union members at delivery company DHL’s Neasden depot in North London are set to strike next Monday for 24 hrs over pay and conditions.

The second general strike this autumn in Greece was set to take place on Thursday of this week. Several sections of workers are already striking.

Read our coverage of the 20 October protests here

Workers at K College in Kent struck for half a day on Monday of this week against plans to axe 145 jobs.