Industrial action / strikes

Unite prepares to escalate industrial action at steelworks after Tata Steel UK threatened to reduce redundancy pay in response to plans for action short of strike.

Junior doctors have called a five-day strike in the run-up to the general election in July.

Pat Cullen, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, will step down and stand as a candidate in the forthcoming general election.

Morrisons has moved to a policy of employers and employees paying 4% into pensions since April.

Civil servants vote in favour of strike, but the union fails to achieve turnout threshold in key departments.

The PCS Union has been granted permission from the High Court to pursue a judicial review of minimum service levels law.

Community members vote for Tata steel strike over blast furnace closures and redundancy terms.

Unite, GMB and Community unions break off talks with Tata over the Port Talbot site with voluntary redundancy terms a key obstacle.

Teaching assistants, catering staff and other workers at 35 Birmingham schools are to strike because of delays in settling equal pay claims.

Train driver members of Aslef to strike and withdraw overtime at 16 train operating companies in May as two-year pay dispute continues.

Legislation found to offer no protection from trade union detriment is incompatible with human rights law, the Supreme Court has ruled.

Tata Steel has threatened to withhold an enhanced redundancy package if employees go on strike.

Around 1,500 steelworkers at Tata plants in Port Talbot and Newport Llanwern have voted in favour of industrial action.

Public sector union PCS is encouraging its members to submit a grievance over the government’s plans to require civil servants to return to offices.

Employees at the Office for National Statistics have voted to strike in protest against a return-to-office mandate.