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31 March 2020
Refuse collection workers strike
Bin workers in Medway, Kent, walked out on 30 March over management's failure to follow social distancing directives, to provide adequate PPE and the closure of public toilets
20 March 2020
Bexley binworkers' strike wins sick pay from day one
Binworkers working for Serco at Tory-run Bexley council have won a victory
18 March 2020
Postal workers deliver massive strike vote
Communication Workers Union (CWU) members in Royal Mail beat the anti-union laws for the third time in less than three years, delivering a massive 94.5% yes vote for strike action
18 March 2020
Tory student plot defeated at Cardiff uni
Attempts to scrap support for the UCU strike were roundly defeated on 10 March
18 March 2020
Determined St Mungo's homelessness workers strike for three days
Last minute emails to staff calling on them to suspend strike action because of the coronavirus crisis provoked anger
18 March 2020
East London bin workers strike to get back unpaid holiday pay
Workers are furious because 150 are owed substantial arrears
18 March 2020
Bexley bin workers strike over lack of hand sanitiser
Left with no hand sanitiser, yet having to collect everybody's rubbish amid the coronavirus epidemic, they walked out on strike
18 March 2020
'Health not profit' strike wave sweeps Italy
Under pressure from the bosses' organisation many workers are still expected to go to work, often on overcrowded public transport
11 March 2020
Postal workers mobilise to win strike reballot: Vote yes!
Almost 110,000 postal workers are currently balloting for strike action
11 March 2020
Trade unionists say "defend the right to strike!"
Over 70 trade unionists packed Southampton Friends Meeting House
4 March 2020
A legacy of women workers and the class struggle
International Women's Day, with its history of being rooted in struggle, has, in recent years, been diminished. Big business increasingly uses it as a cynical opportunity to give the illusion of being progressive and inclusive. Sinead Daly looks at the real history of International Working Women's Day and the socialist ideas it inspires today.
4 March 2020
Uni strikers determined to defeat the bosses
Strikers and supporters rallied at Leeds University on the fifth day of strike action
4 March 2020
Electricians at Sandwell Council, West Midlands have won better pay. Unison local government union members had been taking action short of striking since 6 January, after voting 100% on a 94% turnout for both action short of strike action and strike action.
4 March 2020
As Addaction charity workers in Wigan resumed strike action on 27 February, they expressed their anger that this national charity had spent £140,000 on a relaunch, ironically renaming the organisation "We Are With You" - presumably in an attempt to distance the organisation from the strike!
4 March 2020
West London parking workers' strike
Ealing parking attendants are on strike 2-6 March, having pushed back the employer to stop redundancies. Serco wants them to work longer hours, with more responsibilities and fewer staff.
4 March 2020
Defend the right to strike! Southampton solidarity meeting
RMT transport union guards on South Western Railway (SWR) will be on strike again, 9-10 March and 12-13 March, in their fight to maintain 'safety critical' guards on the railways.
4 March 2020
Strike wave around London - this is why we need socialists in city hall
London Labour mayor Sadiq Khan has declared that he will "stand up for London". Nancy Taaffe, Socialist Party member, asks: "Who in London did he have in mind?
4 March 2020
India: Bloody pogrom fuelled by Modi's sectarianism
Coinciding with US president Donald Trump's official visit to India, Hindu nationalist mobs - fired-up by ruling party BJP agitators - carried out a bloody pogrom in Muslim neighbourhoods of the capital New Delhi
26 February 2020
Northern Ireland's strike wave
Northern Ireland's government was suspended between 2017 and 2020 after the sectarian parties refused to reach a power-sharing agreement following the 'cash for ash' scandal. Now a strike wave has forced them and the bosses to give ground.
26 February 2020
The anti-academy strikes in east London are growing. St Bede's in Redbridge is joining St Michael's and St Bon's already on strike.
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