Victory for strike at Tower Hamlets College

Teaching staff at Tower Hamlets College voted to go back to work on Thursday after winning victory in their month long indefinite strike.
They seem to have completely rolled back the attack and the college principal has now promised there will be no compulsary redundancies.
As previously reported here over the summer the college had announced [...]

Refinery workers set to strike again

Refinery workers organised by the GMB and Unite have been balloting for industrail action and look set to strike. Obviously the militancy displayed  earlier in the yet is continuing.
To find out more check out the article in today’s Guardian here

Iranian workers strike for their rights

Film of strikers demonstrating in Shush, Khuzestan province, Southern Iran
On 16 June 2000 workers at the state-owned Haft Tapeh Sugar Mill met in a general meeting to form their own independent union. They have now been on stike for 42 days and despite mounting repression they remain unbowed.
This is the culmination [...]

Strikes Sweep South Korea

Who says the working class is dead? Certainly no one in South Korea. Following a million strong demonstration last week against his government, President Lee Myung-bak is now facing a massive strike wave. Despite being elected in a landslide last December his neo-liberal administration is already in deep trouble as resistance mounts to pension reform, [...]