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

After 40 days over 3,000 workers at the Hafttapeh Sugar Cane Company in Iran (on the left) have suspended their strike for 15 days to see what the management will now deliver following promises that they will address the workers' demands. These include the need to pay wages, which are now three months overdue. For details of the dispute see here.Then there is Mashad which is the second largest cit...

Below is a report which will be in this Thursday’s Socialist. All readers need to send messages of support as soon as they possibly can. When postal workers turn up at Leek Road, Stoke tomorrow they need the delivery workers to continue supporting the all out strike of the distribution and processing staff. A lot

In the face of massive attacks on their terms and conditions, care workers in Southampton are taking three days of strike action from 3-5 February. The strike involves 240 UNISON and TGWU members. They have been forced into striking because of the savage wage cuts Southampton City council is imposing on them.

Some 120 mostly Asian women workers mounted a mass picket this morning at the Chemilines pharmaceuticals factory in north west London on the first of three strike days over pay

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

PUPILS at a Coventry primary school will be sent home for three days next week because of the latest council strike.Teaching assistants and secretarial staff at Holbrook Primary School will be on strike next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Parking attendants will also be out on the same three days in the latest escalation of the bitter single status pay dispute.

Unison local government workers voted on Monday to take strike action over the government's derisory 2.45% pay offer, instead demanding a 6% or 50p an hour pay rise. The first strike days are expected to be in mid-July (probably 16th and 17th).

I've sent solidarity greetings to the tube workers who will be walking out later today. Here's what Bob Crow has to say about the strike action. Statement from RMT General Secretary, Bob Crow: RMT doesn't resort to industrial action lightly, that's just a myth peddled by some sections of the media. The fact is that Tube workers have been driven into walking out today. Tube bosses h...

SUPPORT staff at a Coventry primary school are planning to go on strike for a second time. Teaching assistants, clerical workers and secretaries at Holbrooks Primary School will not be at work for three days next week. The strike starts on Tuesday February 20.