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  • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
    British Airways PLC
    BA flight cancellations and refuelling strikes set to bring more travel chaos

    Airline to axe 1,500 more flights in coming weeks as Heathrow workers plan walkout as UK school holidays start

  • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
    Royal Mail PLC
    Royal Mail managers to strike over proposed job and pay cuts

    Trade union leaders accuse postal service of putting profits ahead of customer service

  • Monday, 4 July, 2022
    UK faces first national train drivers’ strike in 27 years

    Prospect of ‘massive’ travel disruption intensifies as more unions ballot members and fuel protests clog main roads

  • Monday, 4 July, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    UK courts backlog worsens as junior barristers quit over pay

    Further strikes this week driven by cuts to legal aid fees in England and Wales

  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    Improved pay offer still ‘unacceptable’, say teaching unions

    Leaders of NEU and NASUWT warn education secretary’s proposal ‘doesn’t come close’ to their demands

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    BT Group Plc
    BT staff vote to strike for first time in 35 years

    Telecoms group embroiled in dispute with union over flat-rate £1,500 pay rise

  • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
    Staffing agencies attack UK government’s strikebreaking plans

    Repeal of decades-long ban on use of outside workers would ‘inflame’ industrial action, say 13 recruitment groups

  • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
    LexRoyal Mail PLC
    Royal Mail: a more efficient service is needed to finance bigger pay Premium content

    A strike will damage the reputation of the UK’s biggest delivery group but the impact on revenues may be modest

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Barrister walkouts over pay disrupt crown courts

    Criminal lawyers in England and Wales strike over legal aid rates and 28% fall in real income over past 20 years

  • Sunday, 26 June, 2022
    Barristers in England and Wales go on strike over legal aid fees

    Criminal lawyers say government is not paying adequate money for defence work

  • Saturday, 25 June, 2022
    LexUK employment
    Wages: data measurement encourages its weaponisation Premium content

    Examining salaries in Britain’s rail industry demonstrates how easily numbers can take diverging tracks

  • Saturday, 25 June, 2022
    FT readers respond
    Rail strikes across Britain: FT readers share their views

    Commenters post their opinions on the walkouts and the UK’s potential ‘summer of discontent’

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Third rail strike to cripple services across Britain as talks fail to reach deal

    Transport secretary accuses RMT union of ‘damaging lives of everyday hardworking people’

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    UK faces summer of travel chaos as strike threats spread

    BA check-in staff at Heathrow vote to walk out during school holidays and rail talks break up without deal

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Inside Politics
    UK schools are nearing crisis point

    Public sector pay dispute and rail strikes stress-test the Tory election machine

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Cat Rutter Pooley
    What business can learn from the UK’s public sector strikes

    Prepare to pay up — but also to play nice

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    Rail chief threatens to go over union’s head on UK strikes

    Network Rail boss proposes polling staff directly on modernisation as Thursday action set to cripple services

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    Rail
    The £2bn funding gap behind Britain’s rail strike

    Lower passenger numbers since Covid and outdated working practices have left hole in finances

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    Sunak defends 10% UK pension rise as teaching unions threaten strikes

    NEU and NASUWT demand 12% pay increase as inflation climbs to 9.1%

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    Inside Politics
    Curbing pay increases now may sting the government later

    Plus, why the Conservative push for new schools and hospitals misses the bigger problem

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    UK rail bosses push for job cuts as strike talks resume

    Echoes of lockdown as employees work from home but business leaders warn of painful economic impact

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    Labour Party UK
    Labour frontbenchers defy Starmer’s rail strike picket line ban

    Several junior shadow ministers and party leader in Scotland join union members at stations taking industrial action

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    News in-depth
    ‘The world has changed’: rail strike’s uneven impact on Britain’s workers

    Lessons learnt during pandemic reduce disruption but many have no choice but to travel

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    Inside Politics
    Strikes pose economic challenge for Labour

    Plus, why the opposition needs to talk about Brexit

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    News in-depth
    Is Britain headed for a summer of strikes?

    Tensions over pay are rising but it will take time to pass legal hurdles and test union members’ resolve

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