Social care workers in Glasgow on indefinite strike 600 social care workers at Glasgow Council are about to enter their second week of strike action.
Royal Mail: Wildcat strikes spread as post piles up Wildcat stoppages at Royal Mail offices in Scotland have now spread to thirteen offices. Meanwhile 200 million items of post are now undelivered,…
Glasgow: 5,000 postal workers in unofficial action During the ongoing rolling strikes over pay and conditions, thousands of postal workers launched a wildcat strike in support of colleagues who…
South Africa: diamond miners strike Miners in South Africa voted on Friday to launch an unlimited strike.
Man killed by Royal Mail scab Tragedy struck yesterday when one of 5,000 Royal Mail managers acting as scabs drove his lorry into an Astra van, killing one and injuring a…
Korea: Train attendants strike in longest, most bitter struggle by working women On March 1, 2006, approximately four hundred women who work as train attendants on the KTX “bullet…
UK: Coca-Cola workers strike over pay Workers at a Coca-Cola plant have begun a 48-hour strike, followed by an overtime ban, after rejecting a below-inflation pay rise.
France: transport workers protest against proposed minimum service law The plan to introduce obliging workers to maintain a minimum service during public transport strikes…
Transport for London workers vote for strike action over pensions RMT members covered by the Transport for London Pension Fund have voted by a massive 15-to-one…
General strike shuts down Israel A general strike brought Israel's economy to a near halt Wednesday as all but emergency services shut down.
1886: The Bay View Massacre The little known history of the massacre that occurred in Milwaukee, when 7,000 building workers and 5,000 Polish workers demanded the eight-hour…
PCS consults civil servants over strike action 280,000 civil servants will be consulted on a ballot for further strike action during August. This is likely to mean more strikes over public…