Industrial action / strikes

The government has published an ‘implementation roadmap’ for the Employment Rights Bill, confirming that, once the Bill has made it...

As senior doctors start voting on whether they could strike, we round up the health unions' stance on pay and who might strike again.

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The ballot, which resulted in 97% of workers voting in favour of strike action on a 75% turnout, means strike action could last until December.

UCU members at Edinburgh University to strike for one day this month and for five days during 'welcome week' in September.

Health secretary appeals to resident doctors to vote “no” in a strike ballot over pay, saying the public does not support them.

Unions in the public sector have threatened to go on strike despite above-inflation pay rises being announced yesterday.

The government is seeking to appoint more judges and case workers to alleviate the backlog of employment tribunal cases.

Nurses could be set to strike this summer as the Royal College of Nursing accuses the government of ‘insulting’ the profession.

Resident doctors in England have announced dates for a ballot for renewed strikes and industrial action over pay.

Hundreds of workers at the energy regulator Ofgem are being balloted over strike action in a dispute over pay and jobs.

University of East Anglia staff began nine days of strike action yesterday (1 May) over a threat of compulsory redundancies and lack of financial transparency.

Unite union members at Red Handling and Redline Oil are set to strike in May and June, with some overlap in the industrial action.

The talks represent Acas’s first major involvement in attempts to end the full strike since it started, on 11 March.