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...

Hundreds of thousands of council workers, ranging from school dinner ladies to council binmen, have voted to strike over pay in a move which could plunge Britain into chaos next month.

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 ...

10,000 members of the Communication Workers Union to walk out next Friday over job cuts Postal workers in London are to stage a 24-hour strike later this month in a protest over jobs and services, it was announced today. The Communication Workers Union said 10,000 of its members would walk out next Friday, and warned that further strike action would be announced "if no progress is made". Royal Mai...

More than two million public sector workers are to strike later this month, despite most of them failing to support the walk-out.

More than a million public sector workers are to strike later this month over cuts to their pensions, despite only a quarter backing the walkout.

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

Tens of thousands of schools, leisure centres, museums and libraries will close next month after 800,000 council workers have voted to strike over pay.

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...