Who cares for the carers? Rob Ray investigates how privatisation is costing social care workers, following a damning verdict in a recent report, for Freedom Newspaper
Council workers to ballot for strike action UNISON members working in local government in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have been given the green light for a ballot on industrial…
Science museum in strike ballot National Science Museum staff are being balloted on strike action after voting overwhelmingly to reject below inflation pay offers for 2007-2008…
Nepal; a nice little earner for the Maoist ruling class - in Lenin's footsteps Nepal's Maoist Party has won around 220 seats in the recent Constituent Assembly (CA) election,…
100,000 civil servants to strike on April 24 Workers in ten government departments and agencies will join thousands of other public and voluntary sector workers in a strike over pay.
Coastguards join day of strikes As previously reported on libcom, following their first ever strike coastguards are due to walk out alongside tens of thousands of other workers…
April 24 – hundreds of thousands to walk out On Thursday April 24 thousands of civil servants, coastguards, council workers, FE lecturers and charity workers will join a national teachers…
20,000 Birmingham council workers to strike 20,000 GMB, UNISON, AMICUS, TGWU (Unite) and UCATT members will strike alongside teachers and lecturers against council plans to use ‘Single…
Coastguards hold second strike British coastguards took part in a second 24-hour strike last Friday 11th April over pay.
700 workers out in first ever Maritime and Coastguard Agency strike 700 Maritime and Coastguard Agency workers were out on strike today, the first in the agency's history.
Science museum staff vote to strike National science museum staff have voted overwhelmingly to strike over pay and plans to close the civil service pension scheme to new members.
Germany; public sector 'warning' strikes begin today Thousands of workers have participated in short nationwide strikes called by services union ver.di; described as 'token' or 'warning' strikes, they are in response to a deadlock in pay negotiations.
