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Factory workers to strike amid row over pay 2024-04-19 [BBC]

Asda workers announce 48-hour strike action 2024-04-19 [BBC]

Surrey ambulance staff to strike over pay - union 2024-04-18 [BBC]

Sexism 'worse than ever' at GMB as staff in North East threaten to strike 2024-04-13 [Yahoo]

Rodri says he needs a rest, as extreme match schedule becomes increasingly demanding for players 2024-04-13 [FIFPRO]

Union Accuses Staffing Firm Of Supplying Agency Workers During Strike 2024-04-12 [Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA)]

Christina McAnea leads applause for successful UNISON strikers 2024-04-09 [UNISON]

NUJ member who was a WWI war correspondent for The Times honoured 2024-04-08 [NUJ]

Half of water workers have had abuse from public since sewage crisis – union 2024-04-03 [The Irish News]

Goldsmiths academics to strike over ‘incomprehensible’ redundancies 2024-03-29 [The Guardian]

Amazon workers walk out on two-day strike 2024-03-27 [BBC]

Parking inspectors get pay rise after Unite strike 2024-03-27 [BBC]

Birmingham equal pay bill could be less than £760m 2024-03-25 [BBC]

Heathrow Border Force staff vote to strike in dispute over shift patterns 2024-03-23 [The Guardian]

Amazon workers at UK warehouse strike again over pay, union recognition 2024-03-19 [Reuters]

Swindon social workers to strike again 2024-03-19 [GMB]

Amazon workers announce fresh strikes 2024-03-12 [BBC]

Littleton Colliery miners strike remembered 2024-03-12 [BBC]

Strike-hit schools could be forced to close - union 2024-03-10 [BBC]

How the PFA is supporting footballers observing Ramadan 2024-03-10 [FIFPRO]

Council to fire and rehire bin workers, union says 2024-03-09 [BBC]

Oxford trade unions stage protest against new visa income thresholds 2024-03-04 [The Mail]

NEU teachers’ union asks members to consider strike in England later this year 2024-03-02 [The Guardian]

300 traumatised hospital workers go on strike over unpaid 'Covid bonus' for risking lives 2024-03-01 [Mirror]

Alex Greenwood: 'I’m excited for where the game will be when I finish playing' 2024-02-25 [FIFPRO]

Bus and train strikes: Unions notify Translink of more action 2024-02-21 [BBC]

Single mum sacked for eating leftover tuna sandwich 2024-02-20 [9 News]

Merseyside museums close as workers walk out in row over pay 2024-02-18 [BBC]

Union in dispute over traffic warden pay cut 2024-02-16 [BBC]

New job - Area Organiser - North Eastern Region 2024-02-15 [USDAW]

Unite hails recognition agreement for Mondelez Sheffield managers 2024-02-14 [Unite]

Amazon staff in Coventry walk out on 'Valentine's Day' strike 2024-02-14 [BBC]

LE Pritchitt & Co Limited workers in Newtownards to strike in pay dispute 2024-02-13 [Unite]

‘Save Our Post Office’ demand Londoners 2024-02-12 [CWU]

Asda Gosport strike: GMB union workers strike for 48 hours 2024-02-09 [BBC]

Asda workers set for two day midnight strike 2024-02-08 [GMB]

Asda workers to stage 48-hour strike over claims of 'toxic' working environment 2024-02-08 [Mirror]

Unite secures new pay deal for GXO Iceland workers in Swindon 2024-02-06 [Unite]

Fire Brigades Union announces settlement for members injured in Grenfell fire 2024-02-05 [Bright Green]

Regent's Park gardeners strike 2024-01-31 [GMB]

Security guards to strike at London’s Guys and St Thomas’ hospital 2024-01-30 [Unite the Union]

Third group of social workers to strike at council 2024-01-30 [Community Care]

Phinia workers to launch series of 48-hour strikes against fire-and-rehire 2024-01-29 [The Morning Star]

GCHQ union ban's 40th anniversary marked by protest in Cheltenham 2024-01-28 [BBC]

Sutton Coldfield Amazon workers take part in strike over pay 2024-01-25 [BBC]

Sunderland council accused of not paying women fairly 2024-01-25 [Care Home Professional]

Lionesses react to winning World 11 spots 2024-01-20 [FIFPRO]

National strike by Hitachi Rail workers over pay 2024-01-19 [Unite]

Swindon Council putting children at risk with cuts 2024-01-19 [GMB]

ENO strike: staff say they are political ‘pawns’ and fear being forced out 2024-01-19 [The Guardian]

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]