Hundreds of mostly migrant workers were involved in the actions, which saw The IWGB and UVW unions lead walkouts and rallies alongside RMT and PCS.
Unions hit targets across London in co-ordinated strikes
Tag: strike
Portugal: The dockers’ struggle
Pedro Friere takes a deep dive into the background of dockworker strikes in Portugal, which kicked off spectacularly in November with casualised wo…
Iran: court sentences 15 workers to prison and flogging for striking
Fifteen workers of the Heavy Equipment Production Company (HEPCO) were sentenced to prison and flogging in Iran.
Wigan’s Royal Mail staff stage wildcat strike action in solidarity with sacked colleague
Workers from the Royal Mail delivery office in Wigan in Greater Manchester today morning have staged a spontaneous industrial action in support of …
BREAKING: following strike action cleaners organised in UVW win London Living Wage
UVW members at The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall win the London Living Wage (LLW) after three days of unprecedented coordinated…
Cleaners organised in UVW launch three simultaneous migrant workers strikes across London
Cleaners organised in the United Voices of the World (UVW) trade union are walking out over pay and unfair working conditions at three of the wealt…
40 days of struggle towards dignity
For 40 days, a sit-in strike in the Polish parliament building by a group of disabled children, young people and their parents, occupied the nation…
Cleaners’ Living Wage strike threat takes just 30 hours to beat City bosses
The Bank of New York Mellon have given in to the pay demand from Latin American cleaners after a formal claim declaring potential strike action was…
Mexico: teachers strike against education reform
The CNTE teachers’ union called a 48-hour strike in southeastern Mexico, paralyzing traffic for hours in the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca.
University workers announce biggest ever outsourced workers strike in UK higher education
University of London workers organised by the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) are to hold the biggest-ever strike of outsourc…
Hundreds to protest against outsourcing at University of London
Hundreds of people are expected to protest today at the University of London’s Senate House demanding an end to outsourcing of Uni’s esse…
Victory for LSE Cleaners
The London School of Economics cleaners will now officially be employees of the LSE from 5th March 2018.
Uruguay: Trade Unionist Murdered by a Strike-breaker
Marcelo Silvera, the interim president of the Cargo Transport and Related Branches Union (SUTCRA) was murdered on the morning of 3rd January by a s…
Polish Government’s War on Women
October 2016 saw the largest strike by women in Polish history.
France: Rally attacked by police as lacklustre unions face criticism
Protests in Paris were attacked by police yesterday, with marchers under the CGT banner being tear-gassed as they rallied against labour laws being…
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