Strike Follow

Public sector workers can stop the government from attacking their pensions. Some 2.6 million workers struck together on 30 November. The powerful strike brought many public services to a standstill.

Government workers in Zimbabwe struck for four days last week, demanding a doubling of their wages, medical insurance and travel allowances.

Scottish education union EIS will lobby other education unions to organise a joint strike as soon as possible.

The NUT teachers’ union is pushing for a coordinated, national public sector strike in March over pensions.

The result of the strike vote of electricians at Balfour Beatty is due this week. And protests are still spreading around Britain against attempts to force workers to sign new contracts.

Council workers in Barnet, north London, plan to strike for a third time against privatisation on Thursday of next week.

Newspaper journalists at Newsquest in Essex are taking industrial action against a pay freeze. NUJ union members voted by 90 percent for strikes and 95 percent for action short of a strike.

As European leaders met in Belgium on Monday to plot more austerity, the country was rocked by a general strike.

The EIS Scottish education union will lobby other education unions to organise a joint strike as soon as possible.

The NUT teachers’ union has agreed to push for a coordinated, national public sector strike in March. The union’s national executive committee unanimously backed the plan today, Thursday.

Union tactics at Unilever have changed since the December national strike.

The UCU union’s national executive committee (NEC) met last Friday. We faced a problem.