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Over 500 Cambridge University staff strike over pay 2026-04-21 [Unite]

Miners are back on strike: 'I lost everything last time. I won't go back this time until it's sorted' 2026-04-21 [The Big Issue]

‘People are more unkind’: a glimpse inside Reform’s councils 2026-04-20 [UNISON]

Luton Arriva bus engineers strike over serious sexual harassment and assault issues 2026-04-20 [Unite]

MMU, RNCM University staff strike for pay rises 2026-04-12 [The Mancunion]

Strike ballot opens at Crane Building Services and Utilities 2026-04-08 [GMB]

Why the doctors’ strike matters to all trade unionists 2026-04-06 [The Morning Star]

Unite accuses Birmingham City Council of strike-breaking 2026-04-04 [The Morning Star]

Unions privately voice misgivings over BMA pay demands and doctors’ strikes 2026-04-04 [The Guardian]

Three hospital doctors’ groups threaten to coordinate strike action in England 2026-04-01 [The Guardian]

Starmer gives doctors' union 48 hours to reconsider pay and workforce deal 2026-04-01 [Reuters]

Senior doctors in England to be balloted for strike action, union says 2026-04-01 [Reuters]

Drivers facing ‘disgusting’ facilities at Birmingham Airport. 2026-03-30 [GMB]

Primary school staff strike over pay cut proposal 2026-03-25 [BBC]

Further strike at Leeds Conservatoire this week 2026-03-25 [UNISON]

Disruption to student buses as workers at Universitybus, University of Hertfordshire ballot for strikes 2026-03-25 [Unite]

Coventry council protest over Birmingham bin strike breaking 2026-03-23 [Unite]

Shell Bacton Gas Terminal workers vote to renew strike action 2026-03-21 [GMB]

Disruption to London buses as Unite members at TfL ballot for strikes 2026-03-20 [Unite]

RMT protest treatment of outsourced workers outside Leeds Transport for the North Board meeting 2026-03-15 [rmt]

Nuclear defence workers strike at Berkshire plants 2026-03-12 [Rayo]

Union cuts Labour funding by 40% over bin strike 2026-03-12 [BBC]

Tube drivers to stage series of 24-hour strikes 2026-03-11 [LBC]

Gloucestershire blood workers end year-long NHS strike after securing pay review deal 2026-03-11 [UNISON]

Coordinator – Job Share for Greater Manchester Hazards Centre 2026-03-10 [Hazards Campaign]

University of Bristol staff to strike again over pay 2026-03-10 [UNISON]

Update after hundreds of Liverpool workers walk out on strike 2026-03-10 [The Echo]

Barnsley Michelmersh brick workers secure strong pay rise after strike vote 2026-03-09 [Unite]

Music fundraiser marks bin strike anniversary 2026-03-09 [BBC]

Darrford bin workers in strike ballot 2026-03-06 [GMB]

Net-A-Porter workers in strike vote 2026-03-06 [GMB]

Net-a-Porter warehouse workers in London voting to strike over pay 2026-03-06 [The Industry]

Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS strikes escalate 2026-03-04 [Unite]

Strikes on the Windrush Line as RMT slams ‘cavalier’ attitude towards safety 2026-03-03 [The Morning Star]

KCL Unison Declares Two-Day Strike Over Pay Dispute 2026-03-01 [Roar]

Council workers to vote over possible pay strike 2026-02-17 [BBC]

Birmingham bin strike: ‘We are determined to fight until we win’ 2026-02-14 [Counterfire]

Domestic Violence Advisors take Solace charity to CAC over recognition fight 2026-02-14 [IER]

Hospital staff in Leeds to walk out for further strikes next week 2026-02-13 [UNISON]

Brighton play revives pioneering woman trade union leader 2026-02-13 [Sussex World]

Union rejects offer to end long-running NHS strike 2026-02-11 [BBC]

Educators' union staff strike over bullying and misogyny 2026-02-11 [HR Magazine]

University staff to go on strike for three days after rejecting pay offer 2026-02-10 [Bristol Live]

Birmingham bin workers vote to extend strikes past May elections and into September 2026-02-10 [Unite]

Strikes at NEU London offices in row over bullying 2026-02-10 [Unite]

Yorkshire Airedale NHS microbiology pay strikes escalate 2026-02-09 [Unite]

How is Birmingham's bin strike going to be resolved? 2026-02-09 [BBC]

Hundreds of Barnsley Hospital workers ready to strike 2026-02-06 [GMB]

Wedgwood job losses 'body blow' 2026-02-06 [GMB]

Strikes by East London workers at the Lea Interchange Bus Company halted 2026-02-06 [Unite]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

6-04-1912 After 37 days, Britain's first national coalmining strike ends. It results in the passage of the Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act. [more]

10-04-1984 The House of Commons meets for an emergency debate on the role of police in the miners strike, [more]

15-04-1856 Tom Mann, British syndicalist and a leader of the dock strikes in 1889 and 1911, is born [more]

23-04-1914 First publication of the classic socialist novel 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' [more]