Strike Follow

Amnesty workers strike against cuts Unite union members at Amnesty International UK have voted to strike on Wednesday of next week.

Essex firefighters' strike planned for Wednesday this week has been called off. The FBU union is now in talks with the employer.

East Coast Main Line and London Midland cleaners are set to strike for 24 hours next Monday following a 98 percent vote for the action.

Disabled workers at Remploy in Chesterfield have announced a five-day strike starting on Monday of next week. Those at Springburn, Glasgow, were set to begin a four-day strike on the same day.

TransPennine train cleaners strike back Cleaners, security staff and train dispatchers working on First TransPennine Express struck for 24 hours on Friday of last week.

Some 100,000 protesters marched through Quebec in Canada on Wednesday of last week to mark the six month anniversary of the student strike movement against tuition fee rises there.

Some 100 workers at Sheffield council struck over pay on Friday of last week. The GMB, Unite and Ucatt union members work as electricians, mechanics and in other craft trades.

Some 6,000 Job Centre Plus call centre workers struck this Monday in a battle over conditions.

Traffic wardens in Camden, north London, showed their determination to win decent pay as they struck for three days last week. Their rage was aimed at NSL, the private contractor that employs them.

UK faces court over kill list Britain’s role in supplying information to the US for their "kill list" is going to be challenged in court. An Afghan man who lost five of his relatives in a targeted missile strike has started proceedings against the Ministry of Defence and the Serious Organised Crime Agency.

Firefighters in Essex struck for three hours on Saturday night last week. The FBU members are fighting job cuts in the county.

A strike by bus workers in the Unite union shut down the Abellio garage in Byfleet, Surrey, on Monday morning.