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UK labour disputes

  • 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 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
  • Monday, 6 May, 2024
    UK train passengers face fresh wave of disruption as drivers strike

    Walkouts by Aslef union over pay expected to cause significant disruption to services

    Rail workers holding Aslef flags at a picket line
  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    Train companies make fresh bid for talks ahead of Aslef rail strike

    Rail Delivery Group proposes informal discussions to try to end nearly two years of disruption

    Twp union members hold a large Aslef banner between them as they walk
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    Employment
    UK trade union law breaches workers’ rights, Supreme Court finds

    Sanctions short of dismissal ‘nullifies the right’ to strike, say judges in landmark ruling

    Unison school workers striking
  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    Tata Steel Ltd
    Tata Steel workers vote to strike over Port Talbot blast furnace closures

    Unite says 1,500 of its members have backed industrial action over Indian steelmaker’s plan for south Wales operations

    A protest by Unite members in London in January
  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    UK train passengers hit by fresh wave of disruption as drivers strike

    Walkouts to continue on Saturday and Monday, with much of the rail network impacted

    Three men stand next to red Aslef flags. One holds a poster reading : ‘Aslef official picket’
  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    NHS consultants in England vote to end strikes after improved pay offer

    Move by senior doctors draws a line under long-running dispute with government

    Striking consultants outside the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham in 2023
  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    UK train drivers vote for further round of strikes

    Notice of fresh disruption comes as northern leaders call for rail operator Avanti to be stripped of its contract

    People on the concourse at Victoria Underground Station
  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
    NHS consultants in England to vote on new pay deal in push to end strikes

    British Medical Association welcomes ‘hard fought-for’ offer from government to senior doctors

    Striking consultants in Birmingham last year
  • 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
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