Strike Follow

Tanker drivers in the Unite union are being balloted for strike action. Voting is set to close on Monday next week.

Teachers in the NUT union in London were set to strike on Wednesday of next week as Socialist Worker went to press, along with lecturers in the UCU union.

Teachers at Downhills primary school in Haringey, north London, will hold an indicative strike ballot over plans to force academy status on the school.

The Kenyan government has withdrawn the sacking of 25,000 striking nurses and other health workers.

A planned national strike on 28 March will not go ahead after the leaderships of the unions involved voted to either call it off or limit the action to London.

The PCS civil service workers union will now not join strikes on 28 March after a vote by its national executive today, Monday.

Thousands of teachers and lecturers in Scotland will be angered by the decision of the EIS union's executive committee to call off the strike planned for 28 March over pensions.

The national executive committee (NEC) of the NUT teachers’ union met today, Wednesday, and agreed a London strike on 28 March.

If you are on strike you have a legal right to picket "to peacefully communicate with and seek to persuade colleagues" not to go in to work.

The NUT, PCS, UCU and EIS unions could be part of a 750,000-strong strike on 28 March.

Drivers on the Heathrow Express mounted a second 24-hour strike last Sunday. They are protesting at the sacking of a driver and the victimisation of their RMT union rep.

The Kenyan government seriously escalated a public sector health strike by sacking more than 25,000 strikers on Friday of last week.