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Unite Hospitality Village Hotel Glasgow Strike Action 2025-11-27 [Unite]

VUE St Enoch’s workers support first-ever Scottish cinema chain strike 2025-11-27 [Unite]

EIS Members at Craigclowan School to Take Strike Action to Protect Pensions 2025-11-26 [eis]

Labour accused of treating oil and gas workers 'like the miners in the 1980s' 2025-11-24 [dailyrecord]

First Glasgow workers strike ballot to force buses off the road 2025-11-20 [Unite the union]

Lee Hulse: Probe after worker dies on North Sea drilling rig 2025-11-17 [BBC]

University staff walk out in latest strikes over £140m cuts 2025-11-17 [BBC]

Reeves urged to end North Sea ‘industrial vandalism’ as Port of Aberdeen announces job cuts 2025-11-12 [Morning Star]

Teachers vote to accept two-year pay deal 2025-11-12 [BBC]

Why Scotland's teachers want 90 minutes back 2025-11-12 [BBC]

'Terrified' home carers facing abuse and assaults while working alone at night 2025-11-11 [STV]

Staff at the University of Dundee have begun five days of strike 2025-11-10 [stv]

Glasgow Vue could see first-ever cinema workers' strike 2025-11-10 [The Times]

Dundee University staff begin 5-day strike 2025-11-10 [Morning Star]

'Terrified' home carers in Glasgow call for greater protection 2025-11-08 [The Herald]

'Toxic culture' dispute at Glasgow Rape Crisis Centre 2025-11-04 [The Herald]

A manifesto for change: trade union women lead the fight for fairness 2025-11-03 [The Herald]

STUC Women’s Conference 2025: Usdaw seeks improved flexible working, parental leave and pay rights 2025-11-01 [IER]

West Dunbartonshire Council 'failing women workers'- union 2025-10-30 [The Post]

National just transition summit shows broad support for ‘big step up’ on climate action 2025-10-29 [Scottish Construction Now]

Wind energy jobs ‘one in a million’ warns STUC 2025-10-29 [Morning Star]

Work visas leaving workers in 'bonded labour' warn Unison Scotland 2025-10-29 [Morning Star]

Village Hotel workers set for new strike action ballot 2025-10-28 [Unite]

SNP minister appeals to colleague over fire service cuts 2025-10-28 [Morning Star]

Renewables jobs not making up for North Sea decline, MPs warn 2025-10-24 [BBC]

Teachers to vote on strike action over workload 2025-10-09 [BBC]

Teachers to vote on strike action over workload 2025-10-09 [BBC]

Rent controls return to Scotland 2025-10-01 [Morning Star]

Nautilus secures pay deal at Orkney Ferries 2025-09-25 [Nautilus]

Transition on our Terms: What oil and gas workers are demanding from governments and industry 2025-09-21 [Platform London]

Edinburgh airport workers back new pay deal averting strikes 2025-09-20 [Unite]

Clydebank TUC makes the case for Welfare Not Warfare 2025-09-19 [The Morning Star]

Alexander Dennis to Keep Scottish Manufacturing Sites Operational 2025-09-18 [bus-news]

Unite raises alarm over Scotland’s social care crisis reaching ‘point of no return’ 2025-09-15 [Unite the union]

Social care nearing point of no return, warns Unite 2025-09-15 [The Morning Star]

Strikes at three Scottish universities in one day 2025-09-11 [BBC]

University staff balloted for strike action over job cuts 2025-09-10 [Standard]

Edinburgh University staff begin five-day strike 2025-09-08 [BBC]

Unite delivers sweet pay deal for Tunnock’s factory workers 2025-09-05 [Unite the union]

Striking hotel workers in Scotland win an end to zero-hour contracts 2025-09-04 [IUF]

Workers at Glasgow's SSCPA balloted on strike action 2025-09-03 [The Times]

Home care workers tell of ‘terror’ while working alone at night 2025-09-01 [Home Care Insight]

Head of Scotland's biggest trade union suspended 2025-09-01 [BBC]

Head of Scotland's biggest trade union suspended 2025-09-01 [BBC]

Union chief accuses asylum protesters of 'weaponsing' teenager's rape for political gain 2025-09-01 [Dailyrecord]

Trade union boss ‘suspended over sexual misconduct claims’ 2025-09-01 [Telegraph]

Grangemouth workers slam Starmer's ‘empty promises’ 2025-08-25 [Morning Star]

Historic victory for Govan hotel workers ends zero hours contracts and gains of up to 10% pay increases 2025-08-25 [Morning Star]

Trade union secures win for Glasgow Village hotel staff 2025-08-24 [The National]

Village Hotel Glasgow strike secures pay deal for workers 2025-08-24 [The Herald]

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]