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    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      UK train strikes announced for December

      Aslef outlines ‘rolling programme’ of walkouts at 16 train companies

      Aslef’s general secretary Mick Whelan
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      Health leaders urge UK government to ‘pull every lever’ to prevent strikes

      NHS Providers chief warns of ‘sense of dread’ among staff ahead of winter as union remains locked in pay dispute

      A BMA organiser holds placards calling for a better pay deal during a strike day in August
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      UK rail operators agree deal with union to end 18 months of strikes

      Train companies and RMT develop ‘mutually agreed way forward’ in major breakthrough

      Rail workers on a picket line in Birmingham
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      National Health Service
      Hunt rejects calls for £1bn for NHS in England to cover strike costs

      Decision will come as blow to health secretary, who had been pressing for extra funding

      Surgeons carry out an operation
    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      John Gapper
      The United Auto Workers teach university lecturers how to strike

      US carworkers have been cleverer with industrial action than the UK’s University and College Union

      University staff strike in London. The University and College Union ‘s weakness was that its strikes did not hit university revenues because students kept on enrolling
    • Monday, 30 October, 2023
      General Motors Co
      US carworkers suspend strike after reaching tentative deal with GM

      Breakthrough with UAW follows similar agreements with Ford and Chrysler owner Stellantis

      Striking UAW workers outside a Ford assembly plant in Wayne, Michigan, in September
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      Northern Ireland
      Strike by N Ireland vets risks empty shelves, industry warns

      Walkout by inspectors of meat and other foods will pose first test of post-Brexit Windsor framework deal

      Lorries disembark from a P&O ferry at Larne Port near Belfast
    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      UK universities
      UK university staff vote to end acrimonious pension dispute

      Deal with union in effect reverses cuts to retirement benefits proposed in 2022 after contested valuation of main scheme

      UCU members on the picket line outside the London School of Economics
    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
      Government and NHS doctors to reopen talks over pay

      Consultants agree to hold off on further strike action as health department insists headline pay is ‘off the table’

      Steve Barclay
    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      UK police
      Police Federation chief attacks UK government over pay settlement

      Officers considering push for greater workers’ rights as union blames ‘breakdown’ in relations with ministers

      Merseyside police officers
    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      UK rail passengers face disruption as drivers go on strike

      Walkout at 16 train operators on Wednesday expected to close almost all of network

      A sign informs passengers of the train strikes at Liverpool Street Station in London
    • Monday, 2 October, 2023
      Senior NHS doctors offer to suspend strikes for pay negotiations

      BMA asks for Acas to mediate, but ally of health secretary appears to pour cold water on reopening talks

      A picket line outside University College Hospital, London: Medics are planning a mass rally outside the Tory party conference on Tuesday
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      UK politics
      UK health secretary accuses striking medics of withholding cancer treatment

      Steve Barclay heightens tension ahead of party conference with attack on consultants earning £130,000 a year

      Steve Barclay
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Unite
      Strike pay soars as UK union leader focuses on industrial action

      Unite has been involved in 950 disputes since Sharon Graham took over two years ago and has handed £30mn to striking members

      Unite leader Sharon Graham on a picket line with striking ambulance workers in January
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      NHS consultants and doctors begin historic joint strike in England

      Medics escalate campaign for higher pay by providing only a ‘Christmas Day’ emergency service

      Consultants and junior doctors demand pay restoration on the picket line outside University College London on Wednesday
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      Doctors and nurses in England could be forced to work during strikes

      Ministers invoke legislation that seeks to ensure minimum service levels in critical sectors

      Junior doctors at a picket holding a sign saying ‘Chrnonically underpaid’
    • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
      National Health Service
      NHS braced for unprecedented strikes as doctors in England walk out

      Four days of industrial action includes co-ordinated walkout by consultants and junior medics

      Medical consultant members of the British Medical Association (BMA) on the picket line outside University College London hospital
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Train drivers announce strikes targeting Tory party conference

      Government hits out at Aslef walkouts planned for September 30 and October 4

      Commuters look at the departures board at Waterloo train station
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Trades Union Congress
      UK unions fear tough pay battles ahead of next general election

      Prospect of Labour win tempered by ongoing strikes testing public support, unemployment on rise and policy disputes

      Protesters and strikes montage
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      UK economy
      UK economy contracts as wet weather and strikes hit activity

      Output drops 0.5% between June and July, a larger fall than had been forecast

      Shoppers walking in the rain on Oxford Street in London
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      UK trade unions vote for ‘non-compliance’ with anti-strike laws

      TUC steps up resistance to rollout of minimum service level legislation

    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      UK unions to challenge anti-strike laws at UN watchdog

      TUC says legislation requiring some employees to work during industrial action falls short of international standards

      NHS strikers
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      National Health Service
      Junior doctors in England to join consultants in NHS strike

      First co-ordinated industrial action of its kind in health service history due for September and October

      NHS junior doctors on the picket line
    • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
      Network Rail refuses bonuses for staff who went on strike

      RMT anger as state operator says it warned of consequences of walking out

    • Saturday, 26 August, 2023
      RMT makes bid to end rail dispute as workers stage new walkout

      Industry plays down chances of a breakthrough, as Mick Lynch writes to train bosses to seek ‘way through’ impasse

      RMT leader Mick Lynch on a picket line at Euston station this summer
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