a response to the recent strike waves on workers liberty.org   Wildcat strike action has spread across the UK in support of a strike by construction workers at the Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire over an Italian firm getting a contract for part of the refitting work on the refinery. The Italian firm will use its permanent workforce of Italian workers.read more

by Gregor Gall Workers in Britain on strike against the refusal of employers to employ local labour: a sense of déjà vu? The very same engineering construction workers who went on strike against the exclusive use of imported foreign workers earlier this year are now doing it again. Their beef is not that British workers are being

Around 450 workers at the Shelter housing charity struck for 48 hours last week, and were were set to strike again on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. The workers, members of the Unite union, are fighting against the imposition of longer hours and low pay. The strike was solid at offices around the country. Many of the workers reported that they are particularly concerned at how the changes wi...

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...

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

This strike is solid and we are staying out for all 600  said Ann of the Gorbals area team. 600 Glasgow Social Care Workers  have been on all out strike for over two weeks. The strength, unity and almost 100% support for the strike action by Glasgow SCWs has been an example to workers across the trade union movement.

This is from the Bolton News. There is a ballot on it asking if people support the strike, which currently shows 82% in favour. POSTAL workers are to stage a 24-hour strike on one of the busiest mail days of the year. Up to 400 workers at the Bolton Mail Centre in Farnworth will walk out on

Workers in six day centres for disabled people in Glasgow are balloting for an indefinite strike. The workers are employed by Glasgow council and are members of the Unison union. The ballot follows on from the successful indefinite strike of Glasgow council social care workers last month. Like the social care workers, day centre workers were downgraded in the council’s single status pay revi...

Around 100 postal workers at the Burslem delivery office in Stoke-on-Trent were set to commence a strike over Christmas in a long running campaign against a bullying management. The strike will run from Tuesday until Christmas and then from 27 December to New Year. Twelve workers including three union reps are facing the sack after bosses accused them of intimidating behaviour.

There was an incredible, heated argument over the 'British jobs for British workers' strikes. This largely centred on how much that slogan really characterized the strike, and how much that was a media myth. When the strike was resolved, I suggested that given that the basis of the strike was the idea that British and Italian workers were in competition, and given that trade unionists th...