Strikes

It’s no coincidence that the next three days of the Conservative Party Conference will also see the biggest walkout by NHS doctors in history.

We spoke to the Conservative MP Steve Brine, who chairs the Health and Social Care Committee.

Now this year has been marked by repeated strike action across the UK: today it was England’s NHS consultants walking out again. 

Dr Vivek Trivedi, the co-chair of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee, Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents health service employers and Anita Smith, a teacher at a secondary school in North Leeds.

Within minutes of the government confirming that they’d accepted the recommendations of the pay review bodies, the teaching unions in England had called off their strikes. 

With hospitality businesses struggling with strikes, the cold weather and the cost of living crisis, we’ve been speaking to Sacha Lord, Night Time Economy Adviser for Greater Manchester, and asked him about the current state of the sector.

Almost all Christmas Eve train services have ground to a halt, with the latest round of RMT rail strikes due to start tonight.

It’s been another day of industrial action affecting transport services.

It’s shaping up to be a winter of discontent for the UK, with a flurry of strikes promising disruption from Post Office counters to trains and air travel. Now it seems even your morning bowl of cereal could be at risk, as Weetabix workers vote to take action too.

Campaigners are demanding a Hillsborough-style public inquiry into Orgreave after the police watchdog said it it would not investigate alleged misconduct by officers.

Midwives in England vote to go on strike for four hours in a bitter dispute with the government over pay. It will be the first walkout in their history.

Dozens of protesters have been arrested in major American cities as they take to the streets for better working conditions. But can they change a country with a strong tradition of free labour market?

More than a million public sector workers strike – but last time, in 2011, the action was more a war of words over the turn-out than one of attrition. It wasn’t like that back in the day…

Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers are on strike around the country. Take our tour of what the situation looks like across the nation: protests, disruption and a socialist choir. #j10