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    • 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
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      NHS consultants in England to strike during Tory conference

      Three-day October walkout by senior doctors would be longest stoppage in the dispute

      Medical consultant members of the British Medical Association (BMA) on the picket line outside Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      Train drivers’ union sets new strike dates in England

      Aslef announces September walkout and overtime ban, extending long-running dispute with operators

      A closed ticket gate at London’s Victoria station during a strike by Aslef earlier this month
    • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
      UK universities and unions urged to negotiate as strikes hit students

      Minister calls for talks as ‘damaging’ marking boycott leaves undergraduates without degree results

      Students in Edinburgh demonstrate  in support of UCU industrial action
    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      National Health Service
      NHS in England near ‘tipping point’ as junior doctors strike

      Warning from health leaders after data shows routine care backlog at record levels

    • Monday, 31 July, 2023
      Teaching unions call off strikes in England after accepting pay offer

      Government says vote by four unions in favour of 6.5% rise is ‘good news’

      Teachers and other public sector workers demonstrating in London earlier this year
    • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
      Junior doctors in England to strike for four days in August

      BMA calls fifth stoppage since wave of walkouts began amid demands for higher pay rise

      Striking junior doctors on a picket line in London this month
    • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
      News in-depthUK universities
      Students are suing UK universities over Covid disruption. Do they have a case?

      About 120,000 people are seeking compensation but lawyers say they face an uphill battle

    • Monday, 24 July, 2023
      NHS England
      Radiographers in England to strike as data shows scale of disruption

      Roughly 68,000 hospital appointments and procedures axed because of last week’s walkout by senior doctors

    • Monday, 24 July, 2023
      Gatwick airport set to avoid strikes in peak summer travel season

      Union calls off some walkouts at ground handling companies while other workers vote on better pay offers

      Travellers queue to check in for flights at Gatwick airport this month
    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
      Unions call off London Underground strikes after ‘intense’ talks

      Move by RMT, Unite and Aslef comes as stoppage by top NHS doctors in England ends without resolution

      Commuters at Bank station
    • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
      UK politics
      Senior doctors in England demand higher pay offer to avert August strikes

      BMA leader calls on ministers to come to the table, as consultants walk out for first time in a decade

      Medical consultant members of the British Medical Association (BMA) on the picket line outside University College London (UCL) hospital
    • Sunday, 16 July, 2023
      NHS consultants in England step up their plans for strikes

      Rail workers will also walk out this week in dispute over pay and working conditions

      Rail workers on a picket line outside Birmingham New Street station
    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      Gatwick to be hit with strikes in peak summer travel season

      Unite says 950 ground staff will walk out in July and August in row over pay

      Travellers queue to check in for flights at Gatwick airport
    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
      Sunak unveils ‘final’ offer on pay for public sector workers

      Teaching union leaders accept award but British Medical Association criticises PM

      Striking teachers protesting in Bristol
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