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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]

More travel disruption as Tube strike continues 2025-09-09 [BBC]

ETF stands in solidarity with striking London transport workers 2025-09-09 [ETF]

London faces days of travel chaos as Tube strike hits commuters 2025-09-08 [The Independent]

London tube strike shuts down services, causing congestion on roads 2025-09-08 [The Guardian]

Thousands delayed as strike leaves London with almost no Tube services 2025-09-08 [BBC]

Tube strike begins as five-day walkout spells London Underground commuter hell 2025-09-07 [The Mirror]

Mass disruption to Greater Manchester Bee Network as bus workers strike 2025-09-05 [Unite the union]

Police called to picket line at National Coal Mining Museum 2025-09-05 [Museums Association]

Hundreds of Parliament security staff go on strike 2025-09-03 [BBC]

Union votes to extend bin strike past Christmas 2025-09-03 [BBC]

Mining museum strike extended in row over pay 2025-09-02 [BBC]

Ellesmere Port Electrical Oil Services strikes off after Unite secures pay win 2025-08-30 [Unite]

Barnsley boy mining statue returned to town centre 2025-08-29 [BBC]

Gatwick ICTS baggage screening strikes off after 7% rise 2025-08-26 [Unite]

Can Birmingham's bin strike be resolved? 2025-08-25 [BBC]

Sellafield contractors start work to rule 2025-08-24 [BBC]

RMT to stage Underground strikes next month 2025-08-23 [Railnews]

Miners from 1980s strikes return to picket line … at mining museum 2025-08-23 [The Guardian]

Union accuses PM of 'failing to deliver' Grangemouth cash 2025-08-23 [BBC]

Airbus workers vote to strike for 10 days next month in pay dispute 2025-08-21 [The Guardian]

New strike threat in Birmingham equal pay row as school workers say ‘enough is enough’ 2025-08-16 [World]

Sellafield construction workers begin work-to-rule after overwhelming ballot result 2025-08-14 [Unite]

Not too late for coal mining museum bosses to prevent strikes 2025-08-13 [UNISON]

Oxford University facilities workers win union recognition agreement 2025-08-02 [The Morning Star]

East of England Ambulance Service hit with pregnancy discrimination claim 2025-07-31 [Today]

Nurses in England set to reject pay offer as strike threat looms 2025-07-29 [The Financial Times]

Nurses to 'overwhelmingly' reject pay deal as strike vote looms 2025-07-28 [BBC]

'Victory to the bin workers' - This was the chant of protesters at second bins strike ‘megapicket’ in Birmingham 2025-07-26 [The Express & Star]

Thames Water accused of sacking whistleblowing worker 2025-07-26 [The Morning Star]

Unions back Birmingham megapicket as Labour warned of new strike wave 2025-07-25 [The Morning Star]

‘Exactly what a union should be doing’: doctors in Manchester defend strike action 2025-07-25 [The Guardian]

Airbus workers vote to strike over 'poor pay' offer 2025-07-25 [BBC]

Equity returns to Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival 2025-07-24 [Equity]

'Sense of demoralisation at university' says union at strike action begins 2025-07-22 [The Telegraph and Argus]

Union attacks 'outrageous' treatment of bin workers 2025-07-22 [BBC]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

2-09-1976 All 137 Grumwick strikers are sacked by the company. [more]

11-09-1860 Dockers union leader Ben Tillett was born [more]

15-09-1913 Over 10,000 English railwaymen refuse to handle Dublin goods in an official sympathy strike with locked-out Irish workers. [more]

28-09-1995 Liverpool dockers are locked out by their employer, sparking a two-year struggle for their jobs and livelihoods. [more]