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Government and unions have opened negotiations to resolve the pensions dispute following Wednesday’s industrial action which saw public sector workers take part in the biggest walkout for 30 years.
Gary Gibbon
Political Editor Gary Gibbon on the regional variations of the public sector pension strike as MPs resort to what seems very much like old-fashioned class warfare in the Commons.
The government warns unions that an improved offer on public sector pensions offer could be taken back, if Wednesday’s mass strikes proceed.
On Wednesday, Britain is facing its biggest public sector strike for decades, hitting schools, hospitals and airports. Channel 4 News finds out which services are likely to be affected.
Unions tell Channel 4 News there is “desperation” in government over what impact next week’s public sector strikes will have, as Heathrow airport warns of 12-hour delays and major disruption.
As unions deny claims that next week’s public sector pensions strike will cost £500m, Labour leader Ed Miliband blames Prime Minister David Cameron for industrial action that “needs to be avoided”.
Civil servants are being drafted in to work as border staff during next week’s public sector strike over pensions.
Danny Alexander claims his new public sector pensions deal is significantly more generous than the current deal. But has he got his numbers right? How generous is it? FactCheck investigates.
A major strike will still go ahead on 30 November, unions warn, despite the government’s attempt to head off industrial action with a revised offer on public sector pensions.
Union leaders are meeting government ministers for talks to avoid the biggest public sector strike in decades.
A public sector pay freeze, a new levy on large alcohol and cigarette retailers and a commitment not to raise council tax for five years, are the headlines from this year’s Scottish budget.
The PM battled to explain the grim news today that unemployment has suffered its largest quarterly increase in two years, jumping by 80,000 between May and June. As he looked to private sector jobs growth for salvation, Mr Cameron was lambasted by Ed Miliband who said: “His claim, and the Chancellor’s central claim – that you can cut the public sector and the private sector would make up the difference – isn’t happening.” Who’s right?
Ed Miliband is heckled at the TUC conference where, as Economics Editor Faisal Islam writes, Britain’s biggest unions are poised to call for a “general strike” over public sector pensions.
Gary Gibbon
The war of competing numbers on the effect of the one-day strike of public sector workers is just the beginning of the battle for support between Government and unions, writes Gary Gibbon.
Tens of thousands of public sector workers failed to turn up for work in one of the UK’s biggest instances of nationwide industrial action of recent times.