Strikes

Former Channel 4 News industrial correspondent Ian Ross reports on the response of coalworkers across the country on 12 March 1984, the first day of the 1984 national miners’ strike.

It might not have been at a standstill – but a strike by London Underground staff brings chaos and misery to millions struggling to reach work in the face of shut or very reduced services.

Barristers in England and Wales stage a half-day walkout in protest at government cuts to legal aid, which could leave them paid as little as £20 for a day’s work.

Thousands of police civilian staff in London, as well as firefighters in the capital, are set to strike on New Year’s Eve, the PCS union says.

Pakistan’s foreign office summons the US ambassador and says that the drone strike which killed Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, has caused a serious setback to peace talks with the Taliban.

And would Postman Pat have approved? Channel 4 News looks at the wisdom of selling off Britain’s 500-year old delivery service.

Fast food workers in cities across America have walked off the job to demand better pay, saying they are fed up with earning less than $10 an hour while top executives’ bonuses soar.

As Greece faces yet another strike, Channel 4 News kicks off its Austerity Kids series by hearing from Athens student Tony Rigopoulos about what it’s really like growing up amid the eurozone crisis.

Civil servants to follow up a strike on Budget day with a second walkout in a row over pay, pensions and terms and conditions.

A violent dispute at the Marikana platinum mine has already led to the deaths of over 44 people and caused a political storm well beyond the borders of South Africa. How did it come to this?

As South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma returns to Marikana, where 44 people died during strike action by miners, fears grow that unrest will spread across the heartland of global platinum mining.

Just over a quarter of miners have returned to work at the Lonmin platinum mine in South Africa following 44 deaths in violent clashes last week.

As the number of protesters killed at a South African platinum mine reaches 34, a blame game has begun over the deaths, a reminder to the public of the dark days of apartheid.

The Home Office has said that it will go to court to seek an injunction preventing a strike by border staff which has been called for the eve of the Olympic Games.

The government’s spending cuts create recruitment problems for public sector organisations as people “shy away” from the sector, a new report warns.