strikes

German public sector workers expanded their week-old strike to most of the country on Monday in an escalating dispute over plans to make them work longer hours.

Pilots at British Airways are preparing for a long strike over their pension scheme.

German public sector workers expanded their week-old strike to most of the country on Monday in an escalating dispute over plans to make them work longer hours.

A march and rally is being built for Tuesday 14th of February in support of the striking posties and to demand 'Dignity And Fair Treatment In the Workplace'.

McDonald’s workers in Auckland, New Zealand carried out a symbolic strike at lunchtime on Friday despite the company’s threats to sue individual workers if they took part in union action.

Anyone who doubts postal workers' claims that Royal Mail management is characterised by offensive arrogance should ponder the statement issued on Tuesday in relation to the Belfast dispute, writes Eamonn McCann in The Belfast Telegraph.

Public sector workers are set to walk off the job as early as Monday night, an illegal strike that would cripple government services in the province. The action is in response to a Bill which would break up workers' pension schemes.

The latest attack on workers' rights around the world is now hitting the people who make public transportation possible in many of the world's metro areas.

On the eighth day of the Belfast postal workers' wildcat strike police have been called to picket lines which were blocking the entries to the Mallusk sorting office.

Following a vote 6-1 in favour of industrial action on Thursday, the RMT union has announced two 24 hour strikes, on the 21st February and 2nd March.

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Postal workers and supporters held a march and rally at lunch time today. Over 400 posties and supporters marched from the Shankill Road across the peace line at Lanark Way on to the Falls Road.