Polish coal miners are blocking roads to protest government restructuring.

In Chicago, garbage haulers are striking private sanitation companies (the AP says it's actually a lockout) for wages that will keep up with inflation. This is the first known garbage strike in Chicago's history.

And we made it into In These Times:

Right up to the final day of the strike, university spokesman Tom Conroy dismissed the office takeover, the rallies and civil disobedience as publicity stunts, and said the unions should worry more about the fact that only half the clerical and technical workers went out on strike.

But that’s the way it’s always been, ever since Local 34 was organized in 1984. With more than 90 percent of Local 35 members out on strike, the locals had the critical mass they needed—along with financial, physical and moral support from labor around the country—to prevail.

The multi-tiered coalition building in New Haven also is in use elsewhere. HERE President Wilhelm said that building such labor-community coalitions is the only sure path to success.  ¶ 11:15 AM