College lecturers yesterday became the latest group to announce a walkout for next Thursday 24th April- joining teachers, civil servants and city council workers who will be on strike that day. The action is on a scale not seen since the winter of discontent 30 years ago with hundreds of schools and libraries across the city expected to close

Hundreds of thousands of council workers and civil servants are striking over pay, with schools and rubbish collection among the services expected to be badly disrupted.

UNIONS representing college lecturers are calling for their members to be paid the same as school teachers. A joint pay claim has been made by lecturers' unions the University and College Union and Association of Teachers and Lecturers, and support staff unions the GMB, the Trades and General Workers Union and Unison.

The Great Strike is just two weeks away. The Labour leadership is highly unlikely to back the strike: the best that can be hoped for is an “understanding” of why so many workers feel the need to lose a day’s pay, and for Ed Miliband to refrain from condemning the strike action. But there are elements in senior circles who – quite frankly – are hostile to unions f...

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

From the BBC The two main umbrella unions - the Greek General Confederation of Workers (GSEE) and the Civil Servants Supreme Administrative Council (ADEDY) - are demanding increased social spending in light of the global financial crisis, as well as higher wages and pensions. They represent about 2.5 million workers - roughly half of the total

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...

Today's one-day strike by Turkish trade union confederations, is expected to disrupt services in key economic areas, including transport and industry.Today's strike will take place between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. and will bring workers and civil servants together. It is expected to be one of the most effective actions since the 1991 Zonguldak coalminers strike.Around 2 million union members em...

Government facing biggest outbreak of industrial action since it came to power after civil servants joined teachers in voting heavily for strikes in worsening rows over pensions, pay and jobs.

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