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Hundreds of women launch equal pay claim against Barnet Council 2025-11-20 [IER]

Waste, harassment claims and walkouts: Behind a city's months-long bin workers' strike 2025-11-19 [SBS]

Phlebotomists mark longest-running strike of NHS workers in history with Gloucester rally 2025-11-17 [UNISON]

Now the strike-breakers are on strike: Union claims agency workers will join Birmingham's striking bin workers on the picket lines 2025-11-17 [The Express and Star]

Birmingham bin strikes escalate and set to continue beyond next year’s local elections 2025-11-17 [Unite]

Phlebotomists mark longest strike in NHS history 2025-11-17 [BBC]

Mental health unit workers in London escalate strike action in pay row 2025-11-17 [Unite]

Agency workers covering for Birmingham bin strikers vote to join picket lines 2025-11-17 [The Irish News]

Doctors in England launch strike over pay and jobs 2025-11-15 [eNCA]

Strike action at BAE Systems escalates after High Court victory 2025-11-13 [Unite the Union]

Unite leader slams private water company profits 2025-11-13 [Unite the Union]

Traffic wardens to begin industrial action 2025-11-09 [BBC]

Luton easyJet disruption looms for Christmas as DHL workers ballot for strike 2025-11-06 [Unite the Union]

Cambridgeshire facing bus standstill as Stagecoach workers ballot for strike action 2025-11-04 [Unite]

Leicestershire braced for winter bus disruption as Arriva workers ballot for strike 2025-11-04 [Unite]

Bin agency workers to vote on strike action 2025-10-28 [BBC]

Manchester Aer Lingus cabin crew ramp up strike action 2025-10-26 [Travel Mole]

Pickets set to start at Sellafield site as industrial action continues 2025-10-26 [Cumbria Crack]

Reviving the Lions in Coventry: Louise Townsend on bringing the Grunwick Strike back to the stage 2025-10-24 [The World]

Unite demands independent Investigation into blacklisting at Birmingham Council. 2025-10-23 [Unite]

Agency staff warned of blacklisting over strike 2025-10-16 [BBC]

British Library workers to strike in pay dispute 2025-10-15 [The Times]

Learning disability service workers begin strike vote 2025-10-14 [GMB]

Wirral care workers on strike over grading dispute 2025-10-14 [The Globe]

Tate staff consulted on strike as union accuses leadership of permitting ‘endemic low pay’ 2025-10-14 [Arts Professional]

GMB welcomes 'historic' Birmingham Equal Pay agreement 2025-10-14 [GMB]

Equal pay victory for women at Birmingham City Council 2025-10-14 [UNISON]

City's equal pay dispute with female staff settled 2025-10-14 [BBC]

City's equal pay dispute with female staff settled 2025-10-14 [BBC]

Longest strike in NHS history reaches 200 days 2025-10-12 [BBC]

Merseyside council faces claims which could cost 'tens of millions of pounds' 2025-10-11 [The Echo]

Merseyside council faces claims which could cost 'tens of millions of pounds' 2025-10-11 [The Echo]

AW Crewing strike off in Falmouth as workers accept improved pay deal 2025-09-29 [Unite]

Council to spend £51m on equal pay settlements 2025-09-29 [BBC]

Further bus disruption as more strikes announced at Manchester's Bee Network 2025-09-27 [Unite]

BAE Systems professional staff in Lancashire balloted over strike action 2025-09-25 [Unite]

Workwear factory staff to strike over pay 2025-09-25 [BBC]

NHS workers vote to strike over jobs transfer plan 2025-09-25 [BBC]

Bin collectors to strike over 3.5% pay rise offer 2025-09-25 [BBC]

Strikes to hit Birmingham textiles company 2025-09-24 [Unite]

Bradford professors and lecturers to strike for 10 days 2025-09-20 [The Morning Star]

Gatwick Airport bus workers vote to strike 2025-09-19 [BBC]

Veolia staff continue strike for union recognition 2025-09-19 [BBC]

Met Police staff to vote on strike in pay dispute 2025-09-18 [BBC]

Nuclear construction workers on strike over pay 2025-09-17 [BBC]

Further Manchester travel disruption looms as bus and tram network staff ballot for pay strikes 2025-09-15 [Unite]

Tube union 'hopeful' of deal to avoid more strikes 2025-09-15 [BBC]

Leeds housing support charity GIPSIL signs Unite recognition agreement 2025-09-15 [Unite]

Tube strike union boss wants 'summit' with mayor 2025-09-11 [BBC]

Striking Birmingham binmen stage demo outside job agency amid union £6m claim 2025-09-10 [Live]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-11-1976 Union of Postal Workers refuses to handle any mail for Grunwick, as the strike at the company continues. [more]

14-11-1913 Sympathy action breaks out in some British ports, like Liverpool, in support of workers in Dublin, but fails to spread. [more]

22-11-1900 2,800 workers at the Penrhyn quarry in Snowdonia, Wales, walk off the job over pay and union recognition. The strike last a staggering three years, one of the longest industrial disputes in British history. [more]

30-11-2011 Millions of public sector workers join the biggest single strike day since 1926, against the government's pension reforms. [more]