Strike Follow

The UCU lecturers' union has voted to back more co-ordinated strikes beginning with a strike on 28 March. Lecturers in the TPS pension scheme will strike alongside teachers in the NUT union and civil service workers in the PCS union.

Workers in Greece began a 48-hour general strike today, Friday. This is the second general strike in just one week.

Two unions unanimously voted at their executive committees today, Thursday, to back a coordinated strike on 28 March over pensions.

Striking Barnet council workers bellowed out a determined chant from their picket line on Thursday morning, "Say no to easyCouncil".

Electricians in the Unite union at Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (BBES) have voted for a second time to strike. A previous strike was called off after threats of an injunction in December.

Council workers in Barnet were set to strike on Thursday of this week in the latest stage of their long-running battle against privatisation.

After the blood of 100 martyrs has been spilled: Workers of Egypt – rise up and save the revolution! Last 11 February we kicked out the tyrant, but today we’re still living the same old way—and our demands are still the same. We won’t accept statements and promises any more—while every month more revolutionaries are dying. The latest massacres that the military organised against the Ultras who took part in the revolution, gave 100 martyrs after the Egyptian people rose up across the country against military rule.

Oil tanker drivers have suspended their strike at three oil terminals pending talks.

Members of the NUJ journalists union at the Thompson Reuters news agency were set to walk out for 48 hours from Thursday over a below-inflation pay offer.

BBC bosses have agreed to talks with the Bectu union after a 24-hour strike.

London sixth form college teachers will walk out on strike on 23 February.

The European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank are demanding a massive cut in Greece’s minimum wage before they release bailout money. This so-called "troika" is charged with stabilising the euro.