Strike Follow

Cleaners on the London Underground are striking on Friday 27 July and Saturday 28 July for basic rights, dignity and an end to injustice.

Royal Mail workers in Bridgwater, Somerset, went on unofficial strike on Friday against bullying managers.

Some 2,300 electricity workers in Lebanon have been on strike for the past 79 days. They are demanding permanent contracts from Électricité du Liban (EdL), the state department that manages electricity in the country.

Firefighters on strike in Essex marched through the town of Chelmsford on Wednesday together with supporters from up and down the country.

Once again the Mahalla workers have declared a strike. Let us not forget that their great strikes in December 2006 and September 2007 and their struggles in February and April 2008 were the sparks which ignited the Egyptian revolution.

Thousands of disabled workers were set to strike this week to save their jobs. The Tories want to close 36 of 54 Remploy factories, which employ disabled workers.

Some 23,000 workers at the giant Misr Spinning plant in Mahalla al-Kubra, Egypt, walked out on strike last Sunday.

Firefighters in Essex were set to strike and hold a mass march through Chelmsford on Wednesday of this week.

Some 160 traffic wardens in Camden, north London, struck for two days last week. They are demanding a living wage from parking contractor NSL.

Rail workers in the RMT union at First Great Western have voted to accept an Olympic payment offer. They had started a strike ballot.

Teachers at Noel Park Primary School walked out today (Thursday) against plans to turn their school into an academy.

Some 160 traffic wardens in Camden, north London, have started two days of strikes against their employer, parking contractor NSL.