Unite’s press release is below. Our ballot for industrial action, including strike action, starts on 28th October. Unite has over 100,000 members in Health, in some key occupational groups. Strike action by Unite can have a real impact. An obvious point to make, but all health workers have...

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...

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

You have to take your hat of to the Scots, they don't mess about. This Wednesdays strike will not only include 150,000 Council workers in UNISON, GMB and UNITE

Workers at national housing charity Shelter are to strike again over management plans to scrap their pay and grading structure and force them to sign new employment contracts. Members of Unite the union began a campaign of strike action last week following months of fruitless negotiation over the issue.

Over 1,100 workers at CE Electric, in the Unite and GMB unions, have voted to strike for a 5 percent wage increase

Today sees 200,000 workers in Scotland on strike, members of three different unions, UNISON, GMB and UNITE, across 32 different local authorities The first united strike took place on 20 August, the biggest one-day strike by council workers in Scotland’s history. This is what Ritchie Venton of the Scottish Socialist Party wrote in response to the

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 results of the Unite Health Sector ballot were released yesterday afternoon. Members voted in favour of strike action, and in favour of industrial action short of strike action. Unite’s press release is here. The vote is an important one. A significant group of public sector workers has...

Hundreds of thousands of workers from the Unison and Unite unions will strike tomorrow for 48 hours in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.