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UK FBU responds to fatalities at Bicester fire incident [FBU] 16-05-2025

UK Firefighters killed in business park blaze named [BBC] 16-05-2025

UK Support the Workplace Day of Action for Palestine [TUC] 15-05-2025

UK Scotland NHS Scotland 8 per cent pay offer over two years accepted by Unite members [Unite] 15-05-2025

UK Unions and green groups call for £1.9bn emergency funding for North Sea workers [The Standard] 14-05-2025

Saudi Arabia / UK Pressure grows on Fifa as reports warn of serious risk to workers amid Saudi World Cup building boom [The Guardian] 14-05-2025

UK Government must remain “laser focused” on growth mission to reverse years of Tory stagnation [TUC] 13-05-2025

Sudan / UK Sudanese Bin Workers Send Solidarity to Striking Birmingham Bin Workers [MENA SN] 13-05-2025

UK Migrant workers prop up the UK’s social care system. Now we’re being forced out [BIJ] 13-05-2025

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NEU Westbourne Academy strike: 'Teachers are having scissors thrown at them - we've had enough' 2025-05-17 [BBC]

Firefighters killed in business park blaze named 2025-05-16 [BBC]

Bedford emergency call centre closure 'a potential threat to public safety' 2025-05-16 [GMB]

Cuts to BBC World Service would be 'music to the ears of dictators', says NUJ 2025-05-16 [NUJ]

Working to improve the lives of Black members 2025-05-16 [UNISON]

FBU responds to fatalities at Bicester fire incident 2025-05-16 [FBU]

Hazards Campaign critical of reappointment of Sarah Newton as chair of HSE 2025-05-16 [Hazards Campiagn]

Two firefighters and member of public die in blaze at old RAF base 2025-05-16 [BBC]

Equity to mobilise unions to protect creative workers from AI misuse 2025-05-16 [IER]

Unions to demand Labour changes course in national demonstration 2025-05-16 [Morning Star]

Red Handling strike at Gatwick suspended as Unite members are balloted 2025-05-15 [Unite the union]

Union leader blasts ‘outrageous’ National Grid profits 2025-05-15 [Unite the union]

Dignity for Drivers 2025-05-15 [ASLEF]

Scotland NHS Scotland 8 per cent pay offer over two years accepted by Unite members 2025-05-15 [Unite]

Scottish Water pay dispute boils over as strike action resumes 2025-05-15 [unite]

Scotland Scottish Water pay dispute boils over as strike action resumes 2025-05-15 [unite]

Prison officers prepared to take 'any action' to tackle government inaction on record violence in jails 2025-05-15 [Morning Star]

Unions don't agree with Labour's NIC rise, Mick Whelan says 2025-05-15 [Morning Star]

US trade agreement takes us “back from the brink” after arbitrary Trump tariffs - TUC 2025-05-15 [TUC]

Defra announces closure of Newcastle office 2025-05-15 [PCS]

TSSA opens campaign to protect British Transport Police 2025-05-15 [TSSA]

Support the Workplace Day of Action for Palestine 2025-05-15 [TUC]

England Gender pay gap of £6 per hour at hospitals 2025-05-14 [BBC]

Unions and green groups call for £1.9bn emergency funding for North Sea workers 2025-05-14 [The Mercury]

UK Pressure grows on Fifa as reports warn of serious risk to workers amid Saudi World Cup building boom 2025-05-14 [The Guardian]

Unions and green groups call for £1.9bn emergency funding for North Sea workers 2025-05-14 [The Standard]

Teachers on strike over 'poor pupil behaviour' 2025-05-13 [BBC]

Majority of prison officers report serious PTSD symptoms, groundbreaking study reveals 2025-05-13 [Morning Star]

Majority of prison officers report serious PTSD symptoms, groundbreaking study reveals 2025-05-13 [Morning Star]

POA slams Labour politicians for failing to repeal anti-trade union laws 2025-05-13 [Morning Star]

Norfolk and Suffolk counsellors walk out during Mental Health Awareness Week 2025-05-13 [Morning Star]

Unemployment rate surges to highest in nearly four years 2025-05-13 [Morning Star]

Migrant workers prop up the UK’s social care system. Now we’re being forced out 2025-05-13 [BIJ]

UK Sudanese Bin Workers Send Solidarity to Striking Birmingham Bin Workers 2025-05-13 [MENA SN]

Northern Ireland: Department statistics reveal nearly 15,000 low-paid education support workers on precarious temporary contracts 2025-05-13 [Unite the union]

Government must remain “laser focused” on growth mission to reverse years of Tory stagnation 2025-05-13 [TUC]

Fightback over ‘exhausting’ 12-hour shifts 2025-05-12 [FBU]

Scrapping care visas 'potentially catastrophic' 2025-05-12 [GMB]

UK windfall tax can fund switch to green jobs for North Sea oil workers – report 2025-05-12 [The Guardian]

TSSA Comment on London Transport Power Outage For more info 2025-05-12 [TSSA]

Lack of reasonable adjustments ‘holding disabled people back’ at work, TUC says 2025-05-12 [TUC]

UK Actors Union Is “Industrial Action Ready” If Pact & Streamer Negotiations Collapse, Says Re-elected Gen Sec Paul Fleming 2025-05-12 [Deadline]

England FBU and campaigners demand end to dangerous tower block plans 2025-05-12 [The Star]

Scotland Save River City as part of Scotland's cultural identity, says Equity 2025-05-12 [The Morning Star]

Ethnicity pay gap must end, Unison conference hears 2025-05-12 [The Morning Star]

Creatives need a ‘regime of personality rights’ to protect them against AI, Equity says 2025-05-12 [The Morning Star]

Nurses hint at escalation if profession is left ‘ailing and underpaid’ 2025-05-12 [The Morning Star]

Labour axing care worker visa will put services at risk, say unions and care leaders 2025-05-12 [The Guardian]

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This month in labour history

4-05-1926 For the first and so far only time in British history, the TUC calls millions of workers out in a general strike, in support of coal miners. [more]

5-05-1882 Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette and revolutionary socialist, is born. [more]

10-05-1920 Dockers refused to load arms shipments to be used by White armies in Russia. [more]

14-05-1771 Socialist philanthropist Robert Owen is born [more]

30-05-1984 Miners leader Arthur Scargill, along with 81 other pickets, is arrested at the Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire. [more]