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New strikes at Sellafield as 'union-busting' sees workers laid off 2025-12-13 [Unite]

Revealed - last battling words of union activist who fought for equal pay in Birmingham 2025-12-13 [Live]

'Equal pay settlement a great day for women workers': Payouts are expected to total more than £250m 2025-12-13 [BBC]

‘Things will get worse’ for British Library users, warn striking staff 2025-12-10 [Research Proferssional News]

Teachers begin strike over disruptive behaviour 2025-12-10 [BBC]

Equality victory for 6,000 women Birmingham council staff with 'life-changing' £250m payout 2025-12-10 [Live]

Rally at Wakefield Cathedral backs striking workers at National Coal Mining Museum 2025-12-08 [The Morning Star]

Standing together - the human stories behind Birmingham’s bin strike 2025-12-08 [The Mail]

Birmingham council’s strike breaking lies exposed as monthly spend on agencies and outsourcers triples 2025-12-06 [Unite]

Salford Working Class Library joins forces with General Strike 100 2025-12-05 [Now]

Leicestershire Xmas shopping shutdown during Arriva bus workers strike 2025-12-05 [Unite]

Union-busting scandal explodes at Leicester academy after rep suspended 2025-12-04 [The Canary]

Union slams 'ridiculous' fortnight collection plan 2025-12-04 [BBC]

Strike at ‘frozen turkey capital’ this Christmas 2025-12-02 [GMB]

Birmingham bins rally on first day of strike action by agency workers 2025-11-28 [Unite]

Hospital staff in Leeds to strike in row over back pay 2025-11-27 [UNISON]

Bank of England security strike off as workers accept 'excellent' deal 2025-11-27 [Unite]

Bristol mental health charity staff set for strike action 2025-11-27 [UNISON]

Tate staff hold week-long strike over pay amid reports of workers using food banks 2025-11-27 [The Guardian]

Bromley Parking Wardens to stage march and strike demo 2025-11-21 [GMB]

Protesters call on university staff to support strike action 2025-11-21 [The Varsity]

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]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

9-12-1913 A Special Delegate Conference of the TUC votes overwhelmingly against calling sympathetic strike action to aid locked-out workers in Dublin. [more]