Teachers are on strike. Civil servants are on strike. University lecturers are on strike. The Grangemouth refinery, which supplies much of Scotland with oil products, is on strike and closed down. Council workers striking. The Labour government is taking us back to the wild 1970s, when workers resorted to strike action against a Labour government in a destructive frenzy, which kept the UK firmly n...

The threat of a strike by thousands of engineering construction workers at power stations and oil refineries across Britain will come a step nearer today when unions give seven days’ notice of an industrial action ballot.

London postal workers vote 'Yes' for strike action Postal workers in London have voted by four to one (79 per cent) in favour of strike action against plans to shut three mail centres and one delivery office in London. The Communication Workers Union is concerned that the closures will lead to compulsory redundancies. Up to 3,500 Royal Mail staff will take strike action unless reassuranc...

from the Plymouth Herald 600 WORKERS have walked out in a wildcat strike at Langage Power Station in protest at the use of foreign workers. Jerry Pickford, regional officer for Unite South West, said the workers had walked out in support of similar action across the rest of the UK. The union, which says it does not

When Gordon Brown promised "British jobs for British workers", he had no intention of stopping citizens of European Union countries from working in the UK. So what did he mean? Clearly not what workers at the Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire thought he meant. On Friday, they began strike action over the recruitment of more than 300 Italian and Portuguese workers to a new construction project. ...

Workers are much less likely to go on strike than they were in the 1970s and 1980s as the UK goes into a recession, according to union activists and industrial relations experts. Last month, in a groundbreaking agreement, union members at digger firm JCB voted to take a cut in wages to save 322 jobs. Union leaders there said that workers had no appetite for industrial action to try to prevent all ...

About 170,000 workers in Wales are on strike as part of UK-wide strike action over pension changes, with public services disrupted and most schools closed.

Thousands of postal workers across the UK will strike on Friday in a row over jobs, pay and services, union chiefs say.

Oil workers at the Lindsey Oil Refinery in North Lincolnshire who walked out in a dispute over foreign labour agreed to return to work today.

Postal deliveries in Bridgwater and the surronding area are facing disruption after members of the Communication Workers Union voted by 49 votes to 25 to take strike action in the run up to Christmas. The row centres on full-time jobs being replaced with part-time posts. At a meeting tomorrow...