public and third sector

Palestinian public service workers walked off their jobs Tuesday at the beginning of a two-day protest against their government's efforts to force them to pay their utility bills.

Tradesmen at Wulvern Housing in Cheshire have walked off the job after a colleague was suspended today.

2,200 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union working for the Valuation Office Agency began a ballot for strike action over below…

A short history of the massive private sector strike that gripped Denmark for 10 days in 1998. Although ending after negotiations between the…

Thousands of Greek workers have joined a 24-hour strike in protest against reforms which could jeapordise pensions and jobs.

70,000 workers at Jobcentres, benefits offices, the Pension Service and Child Support Agency (CSA) are on strike for a second day over the…

Workers for the state-owned gas and electricity companies (GDF and EDF) have begun a one-day strike after negotiations broke down on Tuesday.

In a week that has seen Sarkozy's approval rating drop below 50% yet another group of workers prepares to fight back against worsening conditions.

Hundreds of thousands of health workers, civil servants, printers postal workers and air traffic controllers yesterday joined transport and…

As is often the case when large-scale strikes break out, those deeply professional people in the mainstream press have been sitting on the fence as neutral reporters of the news.

Jef Costello examines the reasons behind the recent wave of strikes and university occupations in France.

The strike was launched on Monday in protest at government failure to implement a new payscale.