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  • 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
  • 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
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