Strike Follow

More than two million workers joined a one-day strike across Indonesia on Wednesday of last week. They demanded an end to low wages and the policy of outsourcing to contract labour.

Teachers at an east London secondary school are set to strike for three days from Monday of next week. The NUT union members at Bishop Challoner school in Tower Hamlets would be the first to strike as part of their union’s workload campaign.

Admin and clerical workers are balloting for strikes and industrial action short of a strike to defend their jobs and pay.

Refuse workers in Bromley, south east London, struck unofficially on Thursday of last week against the sacking of four colleagues.

Signal stops trains for better shifts Signal workers in Sterling, Scotland, were set to strike on Friday and Saturday of this week over rosters. The RMT union members are demanding 12-hour shifts. Messages of support to Adrian Scott [email protected]

The national executive of the NUT teachers’ union met on Thursday as action short of a strike got underway. But the executive failed to take crucial steps towards calling a national strike this term.

Lecturers at Barnfield College sites in Luton struck on Tuesday of this week against attempts to bully them into signing new contracts.

Teachers in UCAC, the Welsh teaching union, have voted overwhelmingly for strikes over pay. In a recent ballot they backed discontinuous strikes by 84 percent and action short of a strike by 91 percent.

Doctors in hospitals across Egypt began a partial open-ended strike on Monday of this week. They are demanding a rise in health spending to 15 percent of the state budget and a minimum wage for doctors of 3000 Egyptian pounds per month (£300).

Barnfield strike against for-profit college Lecturers at Barnfield College in Luton struck on Tuesday of this week against attacks on jobs and conditions. College boss Sir Peter Birkett wants to impose new contracts that would force them to work "unlimited" hours.

The Marikana miners at the British-owned Lonmin platinum mine won a pay rise of up to 22  percent. Now others are taking up this demand.

Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy’s government must feel under siege. And on Tuesday of last week it was literally besieged, as more than 40,000 people surrounded the Congress building in Madrid.