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UK labour disputes

  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Nurses in England reject government pay deal

    RCN general secretary says ballot result shows members’ expectations are ‘far higher’ than 5.5% offer

    Nurses protest outside the Royal Marsden Hospital in London last year
  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    UK prisons
    Labour has no plans to lift ban on prison officers striking

    Government ministers reject calls to repeal legislation despite union warning the decision would be seen as a betrayal

  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Rail strikes on Britain’s east coast line are called off

    Train drivers’ union reaches deal with operator of one of the country’s busiest long-distance routes

    An LNER passenger train sits at a platform in London’s King’s Cross station as passengers disembark
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    UK business
    UK businesses in the dark over Starmer’s workers’ rights deal

    Ministers do not appear to have decided which measures will come in this year

    Sir Keir Starmer visits Hinkley Point nuclear power station
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    UK employment
    Unions push for UK public sector ‘pay restoration’ in challenge to Labour

    TUC delegates to vote on call for above-inflation pay rises at conference next month

    Striking members of the Public and Commercial Services union protesting outside Downing Street in London on March 15 2023
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Robert Shrimsley
    Starmer’s trade union summer of love will soon sour

    Public service reforms to both rail and health are coming swiftly down the track

    Illustration of Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves shaking hands with the unions, represented by a big power salute fist and a line of people. Starmer has his fingers crossed behind his back
  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Hopes of stopping strikes clash with Labour’s public sector reform agenda

    On-and-off industrial action by trade union Aslef presage rolling disputes not just over pay but also job reforms

    Aslef rail workers stand on a picket line
  • Saturday, 17 August, 2024
    New wave of UK strikes looms as pay deals spur unions to bargain harder

    Health, transport and local government groups ballot for further action

    Striking junior doctors protest outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London on day one of their industrial action in June 2024
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    Train drivers to stage autumn strikes on UK’s east coast line

    Walkout comes as Labour government faces calls for higher pay across public sector

    An LNER train at a platform
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Rail strikes in England near end after unions and UK government reach deal

    Offer of more than 14% over three years agreed by Aslef leadership to end industrial action

    A group of rail workers stand on a picket line outside Euston rail station
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    Labour to scrap anti-strike laws in new workers’ rights bill

    Deputy PM says axing contentious measures brought in by last government will help ‘reset industrial relations’

    Striking nurses on a picket line in Liverpool
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    GPs in England to cap appointments in latest industrial action

    Family doctors voted for move in dispute over pay

    Consultants and junior doctors on the picket line in London last year
  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    Labour reaches 22% pay deal with junior doctors’ union

    Government tries to stop wave of industrial action that has hampered England’s health service

    Doctors protesting about pay in Whitehall, opposite Downing Street, in June 2024
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    UK public services
    Reeves hints at imminent above-inflation pay deals for teachers and nurses

    UK chancellor says ‘there is a cost to not settling’ even as Treasury grapples with straitened finances

    Rachel Reeves
  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    Tata Steel Ltd
    Strike called off at Tata Steel’s Port Talbot site after talks offer

    Move by union Unite paves way for negotiations with Indian-owned company over future of UK operations

    Workers demonstrating outside the Port Talbot steelworks in June over job cuts
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    Tata Steel Ltd
    Union in talks with Tata Steel in push to avert early Port Talbot closure

    Unite considers exempting some workers from strike action after discussions with Labour leadership

    A Tata Steel employee working at the Port Talbot furnace
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    Labour confident of ending doctors’ strikes after secret talks

    Agreements in Wales and Scotland raise hopes for post-election pay deal in England

    Striking junior doctors on a picket line outside London’s St Thomas’ Hospital on Thursday
  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    Tata Steel Ltd
    Tata Steel threatens to shut Port Talbot blast furnaces early over strikes

    Britain’s biggest steelmaker also challenges validity of Unite ballot on industrial action

    Tata Steel at Port Talbot
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    National Health Service
    NHS warns of ‘major disruption’ as junior doctors prepare to strike

    Five-day walkout from Thursday comes as most of England is placed under heat health alerts

    Junior doctors and BMA members hold placards outside a hospital in Newcastle during a walkout in January
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Amazon.com
    Amazon’s workers at UK warehouse to vote on union representation

    Results of ballot of 3,000 Coventry-based staff due on July 15

    Amazon workers with GMB union placards during a strike outside the Amazon fulfilment centre in Coventry in January 2023
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Streeting urges doctors to call off strikes ahead of UK election

    Shadow health secretary ‘beyond furious’ over five-day walkout, but blames Tory ‘intransigence’

    Wes Streeting
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Harland & Wolff Group Holdings Plc
    Harland & Wolff in pay talks with unions after workers vote to strike

    Walkout threat at historic Belfast shipyard adds to woes of lossmaking company

    The Harland & Wolff Samson and Goliath shipbuilding gantry cranes at Belfast Harbour
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    Junior doctors to strike ahead of UK election

    Five-day walkout is 11th in two years as NHS medics seek 35% pay rise

    Junior doctors on strike in London in January
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Royal Mail
    UK postal workers’ union issues strike warning to Křetínský

    Threat of industrial action made if Czech businessman fails to meet demands over takeover bid for Royal Mail

    Postal worker delivers the mail
  • Tuesday, 7 May, 2024
    P&O Ferries
    P&O Ferries boss took six-figure bonus after sacking of UK-based crew

    Peter Hebblethwaite says shipping company regrets laying off 800 sailors in 2022 but that decision was legal

    Peter Hebblethwaite
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