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  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
    Junior doctors in England willing to consider lower pay rise this year, says union

    Suggestion that striking NHS staff would not pursue original demand for 35% increase comes ahead of 5-day strike

    Junior doctors on a picket line in Newcastle last month
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Gig economy
    Valentine’s Day strike to hit Uber, Deliveroo and Just Eat as workers unite over pay

    Industrial action expected in the US, Canada and the UK in crucial parts of the gig economy

    Just Eat and Deliveroo workers on bikes
  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    Junior doctors in England to hold fresh strike in pay dispute

    Five-day walkout from February 24 threatens further damage to NHS in tough winter period

    Striking junior doctors outside St Thomas’ Hospital, London, in January
  • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
    National Health Service
    Senior doctors in England reject government’s pay offer

    BMA union calls on ministers for more talks after narrow vote against proposal

    Consultants and junior doctors on the picket line
  • Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
    UK government faces calls to drop attempt to revive anti-strike law

    TUC and trade body for recruitment sector urge ministers to abandon plan for hiring agency workers during industrial action

  • Monday, 22 January, 2024
    UK train drivers call off extra walkouts as threat to use anti-strike law dropped

    Industrial action remains set to go ahead next week but Aslef union cancels plan for subsequent stoppages at LNER

  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    UK train drivers plan new industrial action over use of anti-strike law

    Legislation triggers extra walkouts in February by rail workers on LNER line from London to Edinburgh

    LNER passengers at King’s Cross station in London
  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    Northern Ireland
    Thousands strike in Northern Ireland as anger grows over Stormont paralysis

    Public sector workers demand pay rises in line with British counterparts

    Public sector workers protest outside Belfast City Hall on Thursday
  • Monday, 15 January, 2024
    UK rail passengers face fresh wave of strikes

    Aslef union calls on ministers to make ‘realistic’ offer to end long-running pay dispute

    Passenger wait by a barrier at Euston Station
  • Sunday, 7 January, 2024
    London Underground strikes called off after late breakthrough in talks

    TfL warns passengers to expect some disruption on Monday despite week of action being cancelled

    Commuters walk past a closed Undergrond entrance at Victoria station in London, England
  • Friday, 5 January, 2024
    National Health Service
    Ambulance arrivals soar as strikes stoke tensions in England’s NHS

    Warning that pressure on system ‘not going to let up any time soon’

    Ambulance staff tend to a patient outside the Royal London Hospital in London
  • Wednesday, 3 January, 2024
    Junior doctors in England open door to ending NHS strikes

    BMA leader signals willingness to accept 35% pay rise over ‘a number of years’

    Striking junior doctors at St Thomas’ hospital in London on Wednesday
  • Tuesday, 2 January, 2024
    Longest-ever NHS strike will put service on ‘back foot’, says health leader

    Junior doctors ready for six-day walkout in England as impasse in talks with ministers continues

    Junior doctors and members of the British Medical Association on the picket line in London last month
  • Wednesday, 20 December, 2023
    UK public sector pay deals in 2023 were one-offs, warn ministers

    Letters setting out review bodies’ remit for wages in coming year cite ‘historic nature’ of recent settlements

    Badge worn by striking doctor
  • Wednesday, 20 December, 2023
    Junior doctors in England start 3-day strike as pay battle escalates

    Health leaders sound alarm over latest walkout, which comes as NHS grapples with winter pressures

    Striking junior doctors on a picket line in London earlier this year
  • Friday, 8 December, 2023
    Unions threaten to ‘name and shame’ UK employers who enforce new labour laws

    TUC to debate ways to oppose legislation designed to prevent repeat of disruption to public services at special congress

    Kate Bell, TUC assistant general secretary, with striking junior doctors in July
  • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
    Junior doctors in England to stage fresh strikes in December and January

    BMA announces nine days of action as pay negotiations with government break down

    Junior doctors picketing outside University College Hospital in October
  • Friday, 1 December, 2023
    UK train drivers vote to extend industrial action into next year

    New 6-month mandate from Aslef members comes at the start of a week of ‘rolling’ strikes across the rail network

  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    RMT to end UK rail strikes after members accept pay deal

    Agreement ends 18 months of national action by rail workers, but walkouts by train drivers to continue

    RMT members on a picket line during strike action outside London’s Euston railway station in January
  • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
    UK schools
    New rules would require UK schools to stay open during teacher strikes

    ‘Minimum service’ proposals for classes in Great Britain draw anger from unions

    School children in a playground with a ball in the foreground
  • Monday, 27 November, 2023
    NHS consultants in England to vote on pay deal to end strikes

    Acceptance of government’s offer would end long-running wave of industrial action

    Medical consultant members of the BMA on a picket line outside University College London in July
  • 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
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