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DUTCH union organisers today launched Strike Map Netherlands (Stakingskaart), bringing the British-born Strike Map project to the continent for the first time.
Michel Eggermont of Dutch union FNV Rail said activists there had been “impressed with the developments of Strike Map from afar.
“We believe there is a real need to produce more information about what strikes are happening across the Netherlands [so we can] co-ordinate better solidarity activity.
Hundreds travel to Birmingham to join ‘mega picket’ of striking refuse workers and supporters
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As Birmingham’s refuse workers fight brutal pay cuts, Strike Map rallies mass solidarity, with unions, activists, and workers converging to defy scab labour and police intimidation. The message to Labour? Back workers or face rebellion, writes HENRY FOWLER and ROBERT POOLE
