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CWU General Secretary, Billy Hayes

Royal Mail strikes suspended for talks as work to rule continues

Royal Mail and the CWU leadership announced the suspension of strike action for three weeks for…
Social care workers demonstrate in Glasgow last week

UK: Local government workers reject pay cut

The threat of strikes across England, Northern Ireland and Wales has moved closer with Unison's local government workers voting overwhelmingly to…
Striking postal workers

Postal workers wildcat in Swindon

More than 500 workers walk out over the transfer of prominent strikers to elsewhere in the company.
Rosh Pinah zinc and lead mine in southern Namibia

Namibian miners' strike enters second week

The strike at the Exarro Rosh Pinah zinc and lead mine in the South yesterday entered its second week as management and union representatives…
Photo from http://flickr.com/photos/reezeh

More strikes at the Post Office and Royal Mail

Crown post offices are to go on strike this week against plans to transfer services to WH Smith, while Royal Mail workers begin their third week…

Dispatch 1 - Royal Mail strikes, August 2007

First issue of a bulletin about the public sector pay struggles of summer 2007 by a group of workers around libcom.org. This issue focusses on postal workers.
Alan Turing

TV Times - 4 - 10 August 2007

This weeks top selections as we move into the quietest broadcasting month of the year concern Britain's flood defences and the lives and ideas…

The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape - Slavoj Žižek

Philosopher/psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek examines the racist reaction to Hurricane Katrina, and argues there is a deeper logic at work, reflecting…
Postal workers on official strike in Kent yesterday

Royal Mail wildcats spread to north of England

The wildcat strikes at Royal Mail which began in Glasgow, spread across Scotland, and ended today also reached Newcastle, Liverpool and Chester…

Algeria: Mittal steel workers launch wildcat strike

8000 workers at sites across the country have downed tools in protest at management plans to sack 1200 workers.

Algeria: Striking pipeline workers face repression

Two union representatives were arrested last week and the local authorities are moving large numbers of riot police into the area.
Back to work, for now...

Scotland: Postal staff vote to end wildcat strike

60% of post workers from Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen have voted to return to work after both a wildcat strike that started on Tuesday.
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