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NSSN 764: March against the far-right this Saturday – workers unity against racism, war & austerity

  • National demonstration ‘in unity and against the far-right’ called by Together Alliance in central London – Saturday 28th March, assemble from 12noon on Park Lane read more  travel details
  • Join the shorter accessible route at Trafalgar Square – A shorter, accessible march will begin gathering from 1pm at the top of Whitehall, next to Trafalgar Square. The meeting point will be outside Waterstones (The Grand Building, Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5EJ)
  • Online protest against the far right – for disabled people who can’t be there in person to participate. 28th March 2026 12 noon to 4pm. With thanks to Disability Rebellion for collaborating with DPAC on this event. Use the hashtags #DisabledPeopleAgainstFascism #DisabilityRebellion #DPAC #TogetherAlliance. Tag @DRDisabilityReb and @Dis_PPL_Protest read more

Workers unity against the far-right – The far-right are again trying to whip up racist division by scapegoating refugees and migrants. The NSSN calls for the unions to play a leading role in opposing this offensive, which will only weaken our movement in the interests of the employers. We call on the TUC to implement the policy passed at its 2018 Congress, to launch a campaign of ‘Jobs and homes NOT racism.’

  • Affiliate your union branch/trades council to NSSN (£50).  Renew/donate online (HSBC: 40-06-41, 90143790). Cheque (NSSN, 16 Warren Rd, London E10 5QA).  Affiliation letter     

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  • SAVE THE DATE!! 2026 NSSN Conference will be on Saturday 27th June 11am-4.30pm in Conway Hall in London

Birmingham bin workers mark 1 year of indefinite strike action

The Unite Birmingham bin workers have just marked a full year of indefinite strike action against the brutal £8,000 slashing of their wages by the Labour Council, shamefully on the watch of a Labour government.

In an unprecedented, tremendous development, agency workers employed by Job & Talent began strike action on 1 December over bullying and harassment.

Disgracefully, the Council has used vicious strike-breaking measures. But there has been mass support for the binworkers, including on three Mega Pickets, hosted by Strike Map.

But instead of looking to resolve the dispute, this Labour Council has shamefully applied to the courts for and been granted an injunction against Unite, resulting in a massive fine of £265,000.

In addition, they have also been granted a ‘persons unknown’ legal injunction to stop solidarity protests, which threaten fines and even imprisonment. But no legal action will stop the trade union movement supporting the binworkers and their union, Unite.

This dispute can be won – victory to Unite and the binworkers.

Unite: Coventry council protest over Birmingham bin strike breaking (23 Mar)

Bin strike fine ‘pathetic attempt to intimidate workers’, Unite (17 Mar) – Unite, the UK’s leading union, has vowed that it will not allow Birmingham bin workers “to pay the price for the council’s failings” after the union was fined by the courts for picketing. The bin workers have been striking since January 2025 after the council decided to cut their pay by up to £8,000 (between a quarter and a fifth of their earnings). Last week marked the first anniversary of the strike becoming all-out industrial action. The council has not been in negotiations over ending the dispute since May last year, after they reengaged on a “ballpark deal” agreed with council chief executive Joanne Roney and brokered by the conciliation service Acas. Unite remains ready to return to negotiations based on the “ballpark deal”, but the council has refused and it continues to waste millions trying unsuccessfully to break the strike read more

Unite vote to cut Labour affiliation by 40 per cent on the anniversary of the Birmingham bin strike (11 Mar) – Unite has made it clear that the actions of Labour against the Birmingham bin workers will not continue to be tolerated. As well as an escalation of the strike in Birmingham, Unite has voted to cut its Labour affiliation by £580,000. This move is unprecedented and shows the anger of Unite members. As streets fill with rubbish in every corner, residents and workers suffer, while the council dither around a deal already scoped out at conciliation service Acas. A deal blocked by government backed commissioners on £1,200 a day. Labour’s incompetent behaviour in Birmingham has come on the back of a failed economic strategy, that has left our industrial base fighting for its life. Oil and gas workers facing decimation, buy British defence promises broken, the public sector undervalued and the elderly and disabled under attack. Prior to  the rules conference next year (which decides affiliation) Unite has made the decision to substantially cut its affiliation and will now formally consult with its members to see whether they want to remain in the Labour Party. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “Unite members are coming to the end of the line as far Labour is concerned. Workers are scratching their heads asking whose side are Labour on, who do they really represent, because it certainly isn’t workers. Workers and communities are paying the price. Labour needs to wake up and smell the coffee. “The cut in affiliation fee shows the anger of Unite members. Stop taking workers for granted, spine up, do your job and be real Labour.” Read more

Music single released backing Birmingham bin strikers one year on (6 Mar) – A music single has been released backing the Birmingham bin strikers, marking a year since the all-out strike began in March 2025. Power To The Bin Strikers (Unite For Workers Rights) has been recorded by Birmingham’s Banner Theatre in partnership with Unite and raises funds for the Unite members who have been taking industrial action for over a year. Political theatre troupe Banner Theatre have reworked the 1960 hit My Old Man’s A Dustman by Lonnie Donegan into a contemporary protest song. A satirical anthem, it hits out at politicians and council proposals to reduce workers’ pay by up to £8,000 per year – the issue at the centre of the dispute. Birmingham bin worker Danny Taylor, who has been on strike since the dispute began in January 2025, said: “Myself and the other bin workers are delighted with the song and want to thank Banner Theatre for their support. It is a recognisable folk song reworked to portray the striking bin workers targeted by a Labour council. We hope the general public will like it as much as we do.” The single is out today (6 March) on all platforms including iTunes, Bandcamp, Spotify, Amazon Music, Youtube Music, Deezer, Tidal and Qobuz. It is performed by Dave Rogers and Mike Bethall from Banner Theatre and the music video features footage of the industrial action, including from the Unite picket lines and demonstrations around the bin strike. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “Unite thanks Banner Theatre for writing and recording the song. The song will help to remind the general public why our members are on strike.” Bin workers are striking because Birmingham city council has fired and rehired both senior loaders (former WRCOs) and drivers onto contracts that reduce pay by up to £8,000. Earlier this month, they voted to extend their industrial action mandate past local elections in May and into September read more

Unions must demand Starmer scraps 50% strike ballot threshold now!

Starmer’s Labour government’s Employment Rights Act received royal ascent on 18 December. The NSSN welcomes any improvements in the rights of workers and trade unions. But in the Government’s press briefings, there is nothing about the undemocratic 50% threshold in industrial action ballots, brought in by Cameron in 2016.

This raises yet further unacceptable delays, despite being an election promise by Starmer before being elected with a massive 160+ seat majority in the 2024 general election. It should have been scrapped on day one of the new Labour government. Workers have voted for action by huge majorities, only to fall foul of this outrageous attack on democratic union rights. Unions must now demand that the 50% is scrapped immediately.

We also support the call of the POA union for the restoration of the right to strike for prison officers.

The NSSN demands the repeal of all the Tory anti-union legislation, going back to Thatcher. We will continue this fight.

We will continue to support workers taking action to resist the cost of living squeeze, while at the same time continuing to demand that the TUC calls a national weekend demonstration against Starmer’s austerity offensive. This action was passed at last September’s TUC Congress and is now TUC policy. The TUC and the unions must now name the date! 

Consider taking this brief model motion to your next union meeting:-

  • This union NEC/branch/union branch committee/trades council welcomes the unanimous vote at this year’s TUC Congress for the motions from the TUC Disabled Workers Conference and Trades Councils Conference.
  • We fully support the demand in the motions: “for the TUC to organise a weekend demonstration against Labour austerity as a launchpad for sustained trade union action in defence of workers and young people.”
  • We welcome that this is now official TUC policy and call on our union NEC to demand that the TUC name the date for such a demonstration.

The Employment Rights Act: shortcomings and opportunities – Join this public online discussion, jointly hosted by Troublemakers At Work and Free Our Unions, about the Employment Rights Act 2025 – Tuesday 5th May 7pm details

General Strike Centenary with Unite the Union – Barnsley Saturday May 2 from 5 pm to 11:30 pm  Facebook event

Unite the union is working with Durham Miners Association and the National Union of Mineworkers to mark the centenary of the 1926 General Strike.

This is a time to celebrate our history, and to use those lessons to fight for a better future.

The workplaces of 2026 might look very different to today, but the words of miners’ leader A. J. Cook are as important for workers now as they were in our great-grandparents’ time:

“Not a penny off the pay, not a minute on the day!”

We are bringing together trade unionists, historians, musicians, artists and authors to make this a truly memorable celebration of working-class pride.

Add the date to your calendar, and for news and updates as the day takes shape, register your interest at:

https://actionnetwork.org/…/general-strike-centenary…

Tickets for the evening’s gig at Vault 27 can be purchased here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1983796257007?

Here’s what’s planned for Saturday 2 May:

10.00 to 12.30 – Barnsley Civic – breakfast and talks by leading historians of 1926

13.00 to 14.30 – March with brass bands from town centre to National Union of Mineworkers building

14.30 to 16.30 – Rally and speakers at NUM building, and performance by Commoners Choir

17.00 til late – Evening gig at Vault 27, with Ferocious Dog, The Wakes, The Primevals, Katrina Tia Charles, and more.

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Northern Trains: End the dispute with Carlisle and bring outsourced rail workers in-house

RMT suspends strikes this month in fake four day week dispute (18 Mar) – Tube union RMT, have suspended strikes this month following progress in talks with London Underground management. The dispute over the imposition of a condensed hours four-day week on tube drivers is far from over but LU management have taken steps in the right direction and are now taking the matter seriously. After a year of telling us their imposed plan is non-negotiable they have now agreed to negotiate with RMT. Further talks are planned in the coming days and weeks to try and reach a negotiated settlement. All other strike dates from April onwards remain in place and additional strike action on 16 and 18 June has been put in place read more

Windrush line strike over pay (25 Feb) – Strike action on the Windrush Line will take place this Thursday after Cleshar CS Ltd failed to table a new pay offer despite repeated talks with the union. Signalling, telecoms, and track maintenance workers have been offered just a 1.5 per cent pay rise, well below RPI inflation, and the company has refused to offer any improvement. Keeping basic pay low is incentivising excessive overtime across the workforce leading to increased fatigue, union activists have said. In safety-critical roles, that creates unacceptable risks and puts passenger safety potentially in jeopardy. The employer is recklessly using this tactic of relying heavily on overtime instead of addressing the pay aspirations of members and dealing with understaffing. Members are also raising serious concerns about underpayment of overtime and annual leave, alongside cuts to sick pay and paternity pay compared to arrangements under the previous contractor. Strike action will take place on Thursday 26 February, Thursday 26 March and Thursday 23 April 2026, with each stoppage lasting 24 hours. These workers carry out safety-critical duties and without their work, the Windrush line cannot operate safely. Cleshar CS Ltd made a profit of £991,915 in its most recent financial year read more

RFA seafarers to strike in March (21 Feb) – Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) seafarers will take strike action on March 5th and 6th in a dispute over pay, transparency and compliance with minimum wage legislation. Strike action will take place from 00:01 hours on Thursday 5 March 2026 until 23:59 hours on Friday 6 March 2026. If the ship is in port, members are instructed not to book on for any duty commencing during that period. During the strike, members will ensure that the safety of the ship is maintained at all times, including moorings and gangways. The action follows a strong ballot result in which members voted by nine to one to reject the latest pay offer and back industrial action. RFA members met after the ballot result and agreed there was a clear aspiration to use the mandate immediately to send a strong message to the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and the Ministry of Defence that this situation must be taken seriously. RMT has welcomed the overwhelming vote for strike action after management failed to make a decent pay offer or show it was complying with minimum wage legislation. Seafarers can routinely work up to 12 hours a day but their remains no clear or transparent formula setting out how pay is calculated against those hours read more

Piccadilly line fleet strike action (19 Feb) – RMT members at Northfields fleet maintenance depot servicing Piccadilly line trains are taking four days of strike action this week following a breakdown in industrial relations. Instead of engaging with staff, management has responded by extending maintenance schedules to dangerous levels. RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey said that this was putting the public in potential danger by running trains way beyond current maintenance cycles read more

DLR cleaners to strike and protest at TfL Board over ‘inhumane’ outsourcing (4 Feb) – Outsourced cleaners on the Docklands Light Railway will strike alongside a protest at Transport for London’s Board meeting today, intensifying pressure on London Mayor Sadiq Khan to honour his pledge to bring cleaners back in-house. The protest begins at 9.30am at City Hall, Kamal Chunchie Way, London E16 1ZE, which will see cleaners employed by contractor Bidvest Noonan continue their dispute over the denial of proper company sick pay and allegations of bullying behaviour from local management. The cruel reality of contracting out services has been laid bare today, after the union revealed there have been members who despite being hospitalised due to ill health have received no sick pay or support from their employer read more

TSSA

TSSA sees victory in campaign to replace Scotland’s High Speed Trains (20 Mar) – Rail union TSSA has welcomed ScotRail’s announcement that Scotland’s fleet of High Speed Trains (HSTs) will be replaced within the next two years. The trains – dubbed ‘museum pieces’ by the union – operate on inter-city routes between Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Inverness and are often several decades old. The first of the new trains – modern Class 222s – will be in service by late 2027. TSSA has long campaigned for the removal of HSTs, raising multiple concerns both before and in the wake of the Stonehaven derailment in 2020 in which three people died read more

TSSA backs simpler rail compensation – calls for more detail (17 Mar) – Rail union TSSA has backed a new initiative from the government which aims to deliver a simpler system of claiming compensation for train delays or cancellations. Under the new Great British Railways passengers would be able to claim Delay Repay compensation directly from the retailer they bought their tickets from, moving to a single system of repayments. However, the union has called on Ministers to provide more detail on the plans as soon as possible read more

Unite     

Vet reforms welcomed by Unite – but compulsory regulatory system should be introduced (24 Mar) – The British Veterinary Union (BVU) has welcomed new legal requirements on prescription caps, transparent pricing and branding to identify whether a practice or other veterinary business is independent or part of a group. However, the BVU, which represents veterinary professionals and is part of Unite, the UK’s leading union, said the existing approach to quality assurance should also be overhauled read more

Unite hits out at union busting management at iconic Manchester hotel (24 Mar) – Unite, the leading union representing hospitality workers, has criticised the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel for engaging in union busting tactics after staff began to organise for better conditions. Workers at the Kimpton Clocktower, as well as its restaurant The Refuge, made the decision a few months ago to join Unite and move towards formal union recognition after enduring poor conditions including chronic understaffing leading to fatigue and burnout, issues with sick pay and having less than 11 hours (the legal minimum) between shifts. However, after filing a collective grievance one Unite representative was suspended then later dismissed on unfair charges, while another has been suspended and is awaiting a disciplinary hearing. Unite believes the two members of staff were targeted for undertaking trade union activities, which is illegal in UK employment law. Workers who have joined the union have also been on the receiving end of derogatory comments from management. However, more members of staff are joining Unite daily read more

Luton Arriva bus engineers strike vote over serious sexual harassment and assault issues (24 Mar) – Workers furious Unite shop steward suspended after he demanded issues be taken seriously. Arriva bus engineers in Luton have voted for strike action over the company’s despicable response to matters of incredibly serious sexual harassment and assault within the workplace. The workers also voted to strike in defence of a union shop steward suspended on supposedly unrelated matters after he refused to allow the company to ignore the issue. They believe he was suspended in retaliation for holding the company to account. The individual at the centre of the allegations, who was in a managerial role, is no longer employed after the police were called. The workers, however, are angry that Arriva previously dismissed the allegations as “banter” and “horseplay” and completely failed to offer adequate support to those impacted. Multiple workers, including young apprentices, reported being subjected to unwanted touching, squeezing and striking, including kicking and striking in sensitive areas. They also reported being exposed to simulated sexual acts and gestures as well as offensive and sexually explicit remarks about close family members. In addition, repeated intimidation, mocking and humiliation of staff was also reported…The suspension of the shop steward occurred shortly after the individual at the centre of the allegations left the company read more

Lochcarron Mill workers in Selkirk secure inflation beating pay rise (23 Mar) – Pay increase rising to 6.7 per cent. Unite, Scotland’s leading union, has secured an inflation beating pay rise for Lochcarron Mill workers based in Selkirk. Lochcarron Mill is one the world’s leading manufacturer of authentic tartan. It is one of the few remaining textiles weaving mills in the Scottish Borders. Around 70 workers will receive a pay increase rising to 6.7 per cent. The pay deal covers dyehouse labourers, winding and production operatives alongside darners, weavers, and tuners read more

Alcoholic drinks bottle shortages as Encirc Elton workers strike (23 Mar) – A UK bottle crisis is looming after over 100 workers at glass manufacturing and logistics firm Encirc announced strikes due to threatened job cuts. Encirc is a major manufacturer and filler of glass bottles for a wide variety of high-profile alcoholic and no/low-alcohol brands, which include Jameson, Baileys, Budweiser and Coors as well as supermarket branded wine. Unite members, based at Encirc’s Elton, Cheshire site, are taking action over proposed redundancies with the firm looking to reduce its headcount by 28 people. Workers say losing this number of staff will negatively impact workers’ stress levels, increase workloads and create safety issues. Redundancy proposals come despite Encirc being highly profitable. Its parent company Vidrala recently reported full-year results for 2025, seeing a strong market performance with a net profit exceeding £192m…There are a number of job roles that will be impacted by redundancies, including maintenance staff and workers who produce the glass containers and bottles for the filling hall where beverages are bottled and packaged. Strikes will take place on 28 to 30 March and 3 to 7 April. Industrial action will have a significant impact on the supply of bottles or containers from the Elton site and shortages of popular brands in the next few months read more

DHL North West and West Midlands HGV drivers on JLR contract join pay strike vote (23 Mar) – 300 DHL JLR Solihull logistics workers have already balloted in favour of industrial action. More than 300 DHL HGV drivers working on the JLR contract in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Solihull and Widnes are to be balloted for strike action over pay. The ballot comes after 300 DHL logistics workers based at JLR Solihull voted in favour of industrial action over pay. The logistics workers and HGV drivers, involved in delivering parts and cars to and from JLR’s West Midlands and North West operations, are angry over DHL’s failure to put forward a pay offer for 2026. The failure means that the annual pay rise for DHL workers, which is supposed to be implemented every January, has not gone ahead…The ballot for the HGV drivers closes on 13 April. Industrial action would cause severe disruption to JLR’s UK operations read more

Keep the North Sea Working campaign launched by Unite for Scottish elections (23 Mar) – Union vows to hold politicians to account for failures to protect jobs and communities. Oil and gas workers have today (23 March) launched a campaign to demand protection for union jobs and the communities those jobs sustain from Scottish politicians ahead of the Holyrood elections. Unite is requesting leaders of each Scottish political party outline how their respective parties will Keep The North Sea Working. The union is asking Scottish politicians to back the union’s demand for a no compulsory redundancy pledge to preserve jobs, pay and conditions across the industry due to the absence of any just transition read more

Unite members at Oxalis secure strong pay deal (19 Mar) – Members of Unite working on Oxalis contracts have secured a strong pay deal after determined negotiations by workplace reps. Members have won an above inflation award that will see them paid RPI+two per cent – which works out as 6.2 per cent. Oxalis delivers specialist operational services on the Bitumen Total contract, supporting the safe handling and movement of bitumen. Workers are based out of the Navigator Terminal Purfleet and the Stolthaven Terminal Dagenham Dock supplying bitumen and tarmac to quarries and asphalt plants around the UK. It’s skilled, safety-critical work that members insisted must be properly rewarded read more

Disruption to London buses as Unite members at TfL ballot for strikes (19 Mar) – There is set to be disruption to London bus services as over 150 bus workers at Transport for London are being balloted for strike action over roster changes. The Unite members involved in the dispute work in bus operations as bus station controllers and network traffic controllers, both safety critical roles at TfL. The local government body has decided to push ahead with roster changes on these workers, which will see increased weekend working…The ballot opens on 23 March and closes on 13 April. Any strike action could coincide with action being taken by the RMT on the London Underground on 23 and 24 April as well as escalating dates into May and beyond read more    

Unite welcomes steel tariffs but reactive approach to supporting critical industry needs overhauled (19 Mar) – Unite, the UK’s leading union, has welcomed the government’s imposition of steel tariffs to safeguard UK jobs and industry. But to ensure a successful future for the industry and UK’s steel communities, ministers must put in place in proactive policies that provide long-term stability read more

Doncaster bus disruption as First drivers vote for strike action (18 Mar) – Bus services in Doncaster will be disrupted over the coming weeks, as over 230 drivers have overwhelmingly voted to take industrial action over pay. Doncaster drivers at First South Yorkshire, part of First Group, have rejected an offer from their employer as this does not give them pay parity with those doing the same job at First in Sheffield, just over 20 miles away. Strikes will take place on 28 and 30 March and 7, 22 and 24 April. Some of these dates coincide with the Easter break as well as events at Doncaster Racecourse including the opener of the British flat racing season the William Hill Lincoln Handicap on 28 March read more

North East London bus strikes averted after pay win (18 Mar) – Strikes set to take place this week by almost 450 bus drivers have been called off after they won a three-year pay deal. Unite members at the Lea Interchange Bus Company, part of Stagecoach, were set to walk out from tomorrow until Sunday (March 19 to 22) after they were not offered a pay rise despite the pay anniversary being April 2025. However, they have now accepted a new pay offer from their employer. The three-year deal will see them get a four per cent pay rise with effect from 29 March 2025 including backpay from this date, followed by an increase of inflation plus one per cent based on the CPI figure for April 2026. In the third year, they will receive an inflation-based increase on the CPI figure for April 2027 read more

Flight delays to Stansted as ABM workers ballot for strikes (17 Mar) – Delays to flights operating out of London Stansted Airport are expected next month, as Unite members based there are balloting for strike action. Workers at ABM who look after passengers with disabilities are voting for industrial action over pay after negotiations broke down. Should strikes go ahead, this will cause substantial flight disruption as additional time will be needed to board the passengers who rely on this service. The 100 plus workers have rejected pay offers from ABM which members believe do not reflect the skilled job they do amid the ongoing cost of living crisis. Many of the workers are paid below the London Living Wage of £14.80 despite the fact that the persons with reduced mobility (PRM) operation which is contracted out to ABM by Stansted owners Manchester Airport Group is a profitable one read more

Bilfinger offshore workers in strike ballot over jobs, pay, and conditions (16 Mar) – thaca operated Alba FSU and FPF1 assets set for disruption. Unite workers employed by Bilfinger are being balloted over strike action on North Sea assets operated by Ithaca Energy in a dispute over jobs, pay, and conditions. Around 20 workers are involved in a dispute over the refusal by Ithaca Energy to extend a retention bonus worth up to £14,500 to Bilfinger workers on the Alba Floating Storage Unit (FSU) and its floating production facility (FPF)1. Ithaca Energy have excluded the Bilfinger employees who include scaffolders, engineers, deck, and rope access workers from the bonus scheme without any explanation to Unite. Unite has since learned that workers of other companies on the Ithaca Energy assets are in receipt of the bonus payment. The Ithaca Energy-operated Alba field operates the assets for storing heavy crude before transfer to tankers. The ballot will open on 18 March and run until 8 April read more

Northern Ireland pubs could run dry in Drinks Inc pay dispute (13 Mar) – Strike at Northern Ireland’s largest drinks distributor will halt all deliveries to bars, restaurants and off licenses. Unite is opening a strike ballot of its members working in for Drinks Inc (Musgrave Distribution Ltd). The strike ballot opens Tuesday, 17 March and closes Tuesday, 31 March with industrial action possible by mid-April. The pay dispute has erupted over the interpretation of a three-year pay deal which included an inflation escalator clause for the third year [2026]. Unite highlights that cumulative inflation has risen above the threshold which means that the pay deal for the third year has to be revisited. Management is disputing this read more

Over 400 Strathclyde university workers in week-long strike (13 Mar) – Unite members taking action against job cuts during graduations. Over 400 hundred members of Unite, working at the University of Strathclyde will take seven days strike action next week in response to proposed job cuts and a failure by the institution to consult on organisational change. Strike action will start on Monday (16 March) and finish on Sunday (22 March). The action will directly impact on the operations of the university. Estates staff and security workers who ensure the integrity and safety buildings are involved in the action. There will also be no technicians in labs to support students and cleaners will be taking action resulting in no cleaning of university buildings, toilets, and student residences. In December, it was revealed that the university is set to slash 76 full-time posts, as a result of a £35m funding gap. Unite has condemned the university’s failure to fully consult unions over the planned cuts to jobs and not to rule out compulsory redundancies. PICKETS & RALLY: Unite members will hold pickets from 08:00-11:00 on each week day with a rally expected to be held on Friday 20 March with details to be confirmed read more

Dale Farm farmers warned of risks from milk outsourcing plans (12 Mar) – Any move to de-recognise Unite will result in strike ballot of drivers at outsourced companies. Unite has warned Dale Farm of potential industrial action should plans to outsource milk collection threaten union rights. Unite represents around 60 farm collection tanker drivers at the company. Dale Farm management intends to expand outsourcing of milk collection from 40 per cent to 75 per cent. Wauchope is to take on collection at Omagh with Pennybridge-based collection going to Milk Trans and Woodside. Unite warns any move to derecognise the union by the new operators will be met with a strike ballot read more

Health visitors crank up pressure on Cwm Taf health board with eight more weeks of strikes (11 Mar) – Children in South Wales will have development checks cancelled or delayed as a health board refuses to pay health visitors the correct salary. Health visitors at the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board have announced they are taking a further eight weeks of strike action over pay. The industrial action will see essential, mandatory appointments go unfulfilled due to the stubbornness of their employer who is refusing to pay them the correct salary based on their qualifications which is costing them between £8000 to £9000 per year…Following yesterday’s march to the Senedd in Cardiff where health visitors loudly made their anger plain, they will now take further industrial action that will last until at least 15 May read more

Ireland National Ambulance Service: Ballot continuing despite resolution of appointment and transfer issues (11 Mar) – Unite slams six-year delay in implementing ‘Roles and Responsibilities Review’ recommendations. Management must ditch piecemeal approach and address all outstanding issues. Trade union Unite, which represents members working for the National Ambulance Service (NAS), today (Wednesday) welcomed confirmation by NAS management yesterday that Year 3 graduate paramedics will be offered permanent appointments and that management will adhere to the previously agreed transfer policy. This decision follows engagement with management by the Irish Ambulance Representative Council comprising Unite and Siptu read more

Diligenta workers win pay rise following successful strike action (10 Mar) – Unite members across Diligenta have voted to accept pay deal following 14 days of strike action. Staff employed by finance sector outsourcer Diligenta took industrial action following the refusal of their employer to give them an acceptable pay rise for 2025. The strike action resulted in considerable disruption to Diligenta’s many clients when over 1,000 Unite members working at Diligenta sites in: Liverpool, Glasgow, Reading, Edinburgh and Stirling stood firm in their fight for fair pay and against real terms pay cut. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “Unite members at Diligenta have won their pay battle against an employer who attempted to ignore their anger at real terms pay cuts…” read more

East London bus turmoil as drivers strike over fatigue (10 Mar) – There will be major disruption to bus services in East London this month, as over 300 drivers walk out in a dispute about fatigue. Unite members at the East London Bus & Coach Company, part of Stagecoach, have voted to take strike action, severely impacting services including those that go to central London and Westfield Stratford City. The drivers will strike from Thursday 19 March completing their industrial action on Sunday 22 March. Drivers at the Bow bus garage are being made to cover long distances without adequate breaks, causing fatigue and leaving workers concerned that passengers are being endangered. They are often not being provided with sufficient time between shifts to recuperate, while Stagecoach is refusing to schedule meal breaks at the depot, meaning drivers do not have a suitable area to rest. Bus driver fatigue is a very serious problem, leading to a higher risk of accidents such as bus crashes. Factors that lead to fatigue include long shifts, insufficient breaks and inadequate running times resulting in drivers undertaking overtime to complete journeys read more

Striking Romford NHS workers demonstrate at Wes Streeting’s constituency office (10 Mar) – Striking Queen’s Hospital workers will demonstrate outside of their constituency MP Wes Streeting’s office tomorrow on Wednesday 11 March. The workers initially took three days of strike action over a range of issues in February. Fresh strikes began on Monday (9 March) and will end on Friday (13 March). They are demanding that health secretary Wes Streeting takes a more active role in ensuring Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust puts forward an acceptable offer to bring the dispute to end. The strikes are causing disruption to blood tests and other laboratory services carried out by the pathology workers for the trust and GP services. The maintenance and management of medical technology carried out by the engineering workers is also being disrupted read more

Unite to ballot Nelipak workers for strikes in real living wage dispute (9 Mar) – Dismissal of workforce rep during pay negotiations will be fought for Unite by all means available. Unite is balloting its members at Nelipak, a manufacturer of sterile barrier systems for medical devices and pharmaceuticals, based in Derry/L’Derry, in a dispute over pay. The low-paid workforce voted overwhelmingly to reject Nelipak’s inadequate pay offer. They are demanding the company become an accredited Living Wage employer, with workers being paid at least £13.45 an hour. During the current pay dispute one of Unite’s workforce reps was dismissed and this has further damaged industrial relations at the site. The ballot opens on Monday 16 March and closes on Thursday 2 April. If workers vote for industrial action, strikes could begin in the middle of next month read more

Disruption to alcoholic drinks bottle production as glass makers ballot for strike (4 Mar) – Shortages of major brand wine, beer and spirits brands are looming, as over 100 workers at a glass manufacturing and logistics firm are balloting for strike action. Staff at Encirc in Elton, Cheshire, are taking action over proposed redundancies. Encirc is planning to reduce headcount by 28 people. A number of different job roles are impacted by these changes, including maintenance staff and those who produce the glass containers and bottles for the filling hall where beverages are bottled and packaged. Unite members at the site say the proposed redundancies will have a significant, negative impact on workers’ wellbeing as well as health and safety. Meanwhile Encirc remains highly profitable. Recently, its parent company Vidrala reported full-year results for 2025, seeing a strong market performance with a net profit exceeding £192m… Encirc is a major manufacturer and filler of glass bottles for a wide variety of high-profile alcoholic and non-alcoholic brands, which include Jameson, Baileys, Budweiser and Coors as well as supermarket branded wine. The ballot closes on 12 March. Strikes could begin in late March and while Encirc has some stock in its warehouse, any industrial action would have a significant impact on the supply of bottles or containers from the Elton site read more

Bassetlaw NHS union-busting during ICU dispute put patients in danger (23 Feb) – Union-busting tactics by Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS trust put intensive care patients in danger, Unite, the UK’s leading union, said today. Intensive care nurses at Bassetlaw hospital have been taking industrial action over fire and rehire contract changes that will force them to rotate between Bassetlaw and Doncaster Royal Infirmary. The nurses – who fear the transfers are one more step towards Bassetlaw hospital losing its ICU permanently through ‘decommissioning by stealth’ – have taken action short of strike through a ban on working on any ward or unit other than Bassetlaw ICU. In response, the trust banned the nurses from work and is denying them pay. The nurses continued to attend and make themselves available to work, complying fully with their contracts. However, they were denied access to clinical areas and had to spend 12-hour shifts sat alone in a canteen. Under the direct leadership of acting chief executive Zara Jones, the trust banned nurses from working, despite them not taking strike action. Bassetlaw ITU was then staffed by nurses sent from Doncaster. This caused safety issues at both hospitals. On January 8, a critical care doctor from Doncaster Infirmary, who Unite is not naming, contacted Unite and informed the union that they had been told to discharge a patient early. The doctor said this was against medical advice and was done in order to reduce the number of patients on the intensive care unit read more

St Enoch VUE cinema workers resume strike action in long-running dispute (17 Feb) – Unite presents VUE with ‘World’s Worst Cinema’ award in run-up to Oscars. VUE cinema workers resume strike action today (Tuesday 17 February) in a long-running dispute over better jobs, pay and conditions at the St Enoch’s centre in Glasgow. Dozens of Unite hospitality members have been taking strike action since December as part of a campaign to secure the real living wage for workers aged 18 and over, union recognition, and safe subsidised transport home for workers at the end of late night shifts. Unite which represents the vast majority of the customer assistant and team leaders at the VUE St Enoch’s site will present management with a ‘World’s Worst Cinema’ award over the unfair and unequal way its workers are being treated as they resume strike action… Unite can also confirm that its membership at Village Hotels in Govan will continue their strike action after a fresh powerful mandate from the workers. Dozens of Village Hotel workers gave Unite a new mandate for industrial action with 96.5 per cent emphatically supporting strike action. Industrial action has been ongoing since late November in a similar dispute over jobs, pay and conditions read more

Local government craftworkers to ballot for strikes over pay (16 Feb) – Over a thousand local authority craft workers on the red book agreement will be balloted for strike action after receiving an unsatisfactory pay offer. The dispute comes after the Local Government Association, who handle local council workers’ pay, put forward a full and final below RPI offer of 3.2 per cent for 2025 without any negotiations. It also decided to remove apprentices from the national agreement and put a new entrant on the same pay scale as a craft operative, which is a qualified position. The LGA is also seeking to impose NJC job evaluation, which Unite is concerned could be used unfairly, will result in cuts in pay and dilute the level of service delivered to the public…Unite has made several attempts to negotiate with the LGA, which is refusing to honour the disputes process by constantly rejecting offers to come to the table including the union’s suggestion that Unite sits on a number of competency groups for craft workers; and would bring this knowledge and support to these discussions. The red book agreement covers local authority craftworkers who are primarily involved in housing maintenance work, such as plumbing and heating engineering. Workers at the following councils will be balloted initially over the issues: Durham, Leeds, Stoke, Dudley, Southwark, Newham and Bristol. Ballots will open from 19 February and close on 26 March. It is possible that more councils will follow. As red book craft workers are responsible for the upkeep of local authority housing, strike action will cause significant disruption to key services involved in maintaining people’s homes read more

Unite outrage at NHS pay imposition (12 Feb) – Forcing PRB pay “deal” on staff will further deteriorate trust in Labour government. Unite, one of the UK’s leading trade unions in the healthcare sector, has denounced the latest pay “deal” imposed by government. Today’s announcement of 3.3 per cent comes after months of scoping out what pay talks might look like and publicly stating that the government’s preference was for a multi-year deal. With the RPI rate of inflation standing at 4.2 per cent, the pay increase amounts to substantial real terms pay cut. At a time when unions were calling for a restorative pay award to counteract years of below inflation increases, which has devalued roles and resulted in workers leaving the NHS in their thousands. Instead, in an act of political cowardice and financial betrayal of NHS workers, they have decided to revert to the discredited Pay Review Body (PRB) recommendation. Unite has a long-standing opposition to the PRB process and for the first time ever all but one of the other health unions joined Unite in entirely boycotting the process. Unite, and other major unions, are demanding an immediate return of direct negotiations over pay and conditions read more

Imperial College strikes resume over wealthy university’s dodgy pay deal (10 Feb) – Hugely wealthy university used faulty pay calculations to implement real terms wage cuts. Pay strikes by Imperial College London workers will resume, Unite, the UK’s leading union, has announced. Around 1,200 workers, including more than 250 Unite members, have already taken part in 10 days of strikes between October and the end of November over the imposition of a two per cent pay rise. Not only is this a significant real-terms pay cut, with RPI inflation currently standing at 4.2 per cent, but it was calculated by the university using faulty benchmarking data… The workers will walk out again on 12, 16 and 24 February. Industrial action will intensify if the dispute is not resolved read more

Yorkshire Airedale NHS microbiology pay strikes escalate (9 Feb) – Strikes by Airedale NHS microbiology workers responsible for carrying out diagnostic tests will escalate, Unite, the UK’s leading union, said today. Airedale NHS Foundation Trust has failed to address the fact that the workers are on the pay band below what they should be for the work they carry out. The trust has also agreed to undertake extra work for another trust that the microbiology workers will have to carry out, increasing the number of call outs during nights and weekends. As a result, out of hours rotas have been changed without consultation or regard to current workloads…The workers previously took strike action from 18 to 25 December. Fresh strikes will take place from 9 February to 11 February and from 18 February to 20 February, resulting in testing delays for Airedale general hospitals and local GP services. Industrial action will intensify if the dispute is not resolved read more

LR Solihull DHL workers ballot for strikes over pay (5 Feb) – Around 300 DHL logistics workers based at JLR Solihull are to be balloted for strike action over pay, Unite, the UK’s leading union, said today. The workers, who take parts and cars to and from the factory, are balloting due to DHL’s failure to put forward a pay offer for 2026. The failure means that the annual pay rise for DHL workers, which is supposed to be implemented every January, has not gone ahead…The ballot will open on 18 February and closes 11 March. Industrial action would cause severe disruption to JLR’s Solihull operations read more

Sports events under threat as snooker and tennis ball cloth workers take further strike action (2 Feb) – Workers at WSP textiles take further strikes. Snooker baize and tennis ball felt supplies at risk. Sporting tournaments like Wimbledon and the Snooker World Championships could be at risk as workers at the Gloucestershire factory which makes the balls and baize fabrics take further strike action. Workers at WSP textiles are striking due to the company refusing to make a fair pay offer. Unite members at WSP are furious at the 2.35 per cent pay offer that the company has put forward given the current cost of living crisis. Most earn little more than the minimum wage and haven’t had an above-inflation pay rise in years…Previous strikes dates have already seen the factories grind to a halt and given the lack of anew offer from WSP, workers have been left with little choice but to escalate industrial action. They began a new set of strikes today 2-7 February and 11-13 read more

Unite raises Village Hotel Glasgow illegal strike breaking with government (23 Jan) – Union highlights job agency adverts during strike action by hospitality workers. Unite has lodged a legal complaint concerning illegal strike-breaking by Village Hotels. The complaint focuses on the unlawful use of agency labour during industrial action by workers. Workers at the Glasgow-based hotel have participated in ongoing strike action since 28 November. Unite members unanimously supported taking industrial action in the dispute over jobs, pay and conditions. Unite has received job advert information which indicates that employment agency – Mint People – provided temporary workers to directly replace striking workers. This is clearly against the law. The union has requested that the department of business and trade urgently investigate and take enforcement action as appropriate. Village Hotels sought to recruit agency workers through the agency to undertake roles including pub and grill staff and night porters. Unite has further written to the managing director of Mint People Agency to put on record its concerns over the unlawful deployment of agency labour during industrial action read more

Cambridge Stagecoach workers intensify strike action over pay disparities (21 Jan) – Cambridge one of UK’s most expensive cities but drivers paid £1.78 an hour less than Manchester colleagues. Cambridge Stagecoach workers will stage further strike action later this month and into February, Unite, the UK’s leading union, said today. The 200 drivers and engineers are demanding a pay increase that reflects the difficulties and stresses of the job and the high cost of living in Cambridge, one of the most expensive cities in the UK. While Cambridge drivers are paid just £16.22 hour, drivers in Manchester are paid £18 an hour and Liverpool drivers are on £17.43. Stagecoach made operating profits of £97.3 million in the year to April 2024 on sales of £1.6 billion… The workers began strike action in late December. As well as striking on 24 January, fresh strikes have been scheduled for 26, 28 and 30 January and 9, 11 and 13 February. Industrial action will intensify if the dispute is not resolved read more

Crane operators strike will see building sites across the UK shutdown (13 Jan) – Workers from Wolffkran cranes taking action over pay and conditions. Strikes by workers from Wolffkran tower cranes at building sites across the UK will see construction work grind to a halt this winter. Nearly 100 tower crane operators are taking strike action after not receiving a pay rise in three years. Unite members at Wolffkran are furious that the company is now also seeking to cut some of their additional benefits including standby payments. Given the importance of tower cranes on major construction projects, sites will see work halted when the crane operators walk out later this month. Wolffkran operates on some of the biggest construction sites in the UK including the Grenfell Tower deconstruction, the Cambridge Science Park and the new headquarters for the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in Berkshire… Tower crane operators will be taking the first day of strike action on Tuesday 27 January and will then take strike action every fortnight from then on. Exact days will be determined by members at each site based on what will cause the most disruption    read more

CWU

Workers will resist “car crash” working arrangements and fight for new entrants (11 Mar) – Postal workers will continue to fight the “car crash” that is the Optimised Delivery Model (ODM) and fight for equalisation of new entrants, the union’s leadership has said. Hundreds of South Wales and South West region members attended a meeting on Monday 23rd February in Taunton, where they first heard from Deputy General Secretary Martin Walsh, who outlined the current situation. Warning that the USO faces its “most dramatic change since 1968”, Martin opened by paying tribute to union representatives “getting flak for a workplace crisis that isn’t their fault”, in a climate where Royal Mail’s financial position is only adding to pressure. The union, he said, “is urgently trying to resolve it”. Last July, the union secured a reasonable 4.2% no strings pay deal. There were commitments to reach a USO agreement with the aim by July and both EP and Royal Mail recommitted to the equalisation of new entrants pay, terms and conditions. Questions over the Optimised Delivery Model (ODM) were addressed, with Martin echoing the majority of workers who felt ODM was “a car crash”, and that the union could not support it as it stands. This was ratified by the release of a poll which showed that every pilot office balloted on ODM has rejected the model in favour of the union’s position read more

Royal Mail Campaign 2026 – In December 2022, Royal Mail started employing new recruits on worse terms and conditions. The CWU did not agree to this, has never agreed to this, and is striving to resolve this. We want a pathway to equalisation. The postal industry regulator Ofcom has changed the statutory delivery requirements for the UK. The company wants to implement this change by an ‘optimised delivery model’ (ODM) which does not work in practice. The CWU wants to implement this change by a ‘heavy and light’ method, which will work in practice. Talks are ongoing on both issues at this time read more

Latest updates:-

  • We’re Not Going Anywhere – ‘If any of the top brass at Royal Mail or EP think the unions going anywhere, they’ve got another thing coming.’ Rousing Speech from Ralph Ferrett, South Wales/South West Div Rep
  • USO Pilot Consultation Result – Update from CWU Deputy General Secretary (Postal), Martin Walsh, on the membership consultation from the 35 Royal Mail USO reform pilot sites

VMO2 members set to vote on inflation-busting wage rises (4 Mar) – CWU members at VMO2 are voting on a deal that will see the company’s lowest paid workers achieve a significant wage rise. After negotiations which started at the beginning of the new year and finished on 19th February, the union’s national negotiation team have agreed a final offer with the company read more

BT Group members to vote on pay deal starting Thursday (3 Mar) – BT workers in the CWU are being urged to “have your say” on an inflation-busting pay deal. Union members at BT are to be sent a consultative ballot on whether to accept or reject a pay offer for the coming financial year. The offer, which was reached after an intense bout of recent negotiations, is against the backdrop of a fall in the rate of inflation, with CPI inflation being reduced to 3% in January, and being forecast to drop over the coming months. The ballot will open this Thursday (5th March) and will close on Wednesday 18th March read more

PCS     

You can show your support to the strikes by PCS members by:     

  • Making donations to the PCS Fighting Fund Levy account, sort code: 60-83-01, account no. 20331490    
  • Sending solidarity messages to [email protected]     

Celebrating union recognition at Transport for Wales (TfW) (24 Mar) – Transport for Wales (TfW) has formally concluded a trade union recognition agreement for non-operational staff. PCS is proud to celebrate a major step forward for workers’ voice and fair work in Wales, as Transport for Wales (TfW) has formally concluded a trade union recognition agreement for its non-operational staff. The agreement, signed on 20 March 2026, marks a significant achievement for social partnership and demonstrates the power of sustained, constructive engagement between unions, government, and employers read more

Major win for PCS in trade union victimisation case (19 Mar) – The settlement of the long‑running case at The Pensions Regulator includes a £90,000 pay-out for the reps. PCS has secured a comprehensive settlement on behalf of PCS reps who were subjected to trade union victimisation at The Pensions Regulator (TPR). The agreement includes a £15,000 payment for each representative, a formal apology from the employer, and a commitment by TPR to deliver training for its managers on constructive engagement with trade union representatives read more

Government accepts need to compensate pensioners (18 Mar) – The Cabinet Office has confirmed that members of the Civil Service Pension Scheme who have experienced unacceptable delays will be eligible to receive compensation for distress and inconvenience. In addition to interest on late payments, members of the Civil Service Pension Scheme who have experienced unacceptable delays will be eligible to receive compensation for distress and inconvenience. This has been confirmed by Satvir Kaur MP, parliamentary secretary at the Cabinet Office, in reply to a parliamentary question from John McDonnell MP, chair of the PCS parliamentary group read more

MPs attend emergency roundtable on Capita (17 Mar) – The PCS general secretary and national president have attended a meeting with cross party MPs to discuss the ongoing Capita pensions crisis and the Synergy payroll contract read more

More problems at Capita for Defence staff (18 Mar) – PCS Defence members in Capita Business Services have put the employer on notice of action short of a strike following a dispute over pay since they were outsourced last year. The staff at HMS Sultan in Gosport were outsourced from the civil service and are currently in dispute about a discrepancy in pay between them and staff who TUPE transferred from another contractor. The dispute centres around the fact that there is a discrepancy in pay of around £10,000. PCS has held several meetings with Capita management, including talks with ACAS, where PCS made suggestions that could help to resolve the issue, but these suggestions have been refused, leading to a stage where PCS members have voted unanimously for action short of a strike which will commence on 23 March. PCS is calling for further talks with the employer as our members our clearly being short-changed following the outsourcing. Civil service staff continue to wonder why Capita keep winning government contracts and demand a solution to their pay dispute read more

FCDO2030 – Industrial Action ballot opens (17 Mar) – The postal ballot opened on 16 March and closes on Monday 20 April. We are asking you to vote Yes for industrial action… Collectively we need to send a powerful message to FCDO that staff oppose the job cuts, that management needs to respect trade unions and consult with us properly, and that only those who volunteer for redundancy should be exiting the organisation – we demand a “no compulsory redundancy” agreement read more

Overwhelming support for further strike action at Palace of Westminster (13 Mar) – Members returned a 98% yes vote for strike action in the ballot that closed on 12 March. PCS members employed as security staff at the Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament) have been balloted to ask if they are willing to take strike action in their dispute over the loss of annual leave, changes to rotas and break patterns, the stagnation of pay and a widening ethnicity pay gap. The members have already taken strike action – in September, November and December 2025 – alongside action short of a strike consisting of an overtime ban and work to rule. The ballot that closed at noon on Thursday 12 noon was a re-ballot to extend the strike mandate. Of those who voted, 98% voted YES for industrial action and 99% for action short of a strike. PCS will continue meeting with the employer in an attempt to end the dispute, and the willingness of members to take further strike action will strengthen our position in those negotiations read more

Significant gains made in ONS dispute (9 Mar) – Members working for Office for National Statistics have been involved in a long running dispute over mandated office attendance since April 2024. Following a change in senior leadership at ONS, the PCS national branch has seen a positive change towards industrial relations and has been engaged in productive and meaningful negotiations since October 2025, working towards dispute resolution. We are pleased to announce that significant hard-won gains have been made through these negotiations. An offer has been announced to PCS ONS members, achieving the majority of the campaign aims of the dispute. Office attendance will be based on when there is a clear purpose for being there, so office working is reasonable and meaningful instead of being based on an individual attendance target… Members will be balloted on the offer from 16-30 March, with a recommendation of acceptance from the branch executive committee read more

PCS to ballot Home Office members on three-year pay deal (3 Mar) – PCS has received final proposals for a three‑year pay award covering more than 50,000 staff in the Home Office. PCS has received final proposals for a three‑year pay award covering more than 50,000 staff in the Home Office. An online ballot will open on 9 March and close on 30 March read more

Ofgem staff to be balloted to renew strike mandate (3 Mar) – Members working for Ofgem are involved in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and industrial relations. Nearly 1000 PCS members employed by the energy regulator Ofgem in Glasgow, London and Cardiff are to be balloted for further strike action. The ballot opens on 4 March and closes at noon on 10 April 2026. PCS has been in dispute with Ofgem since March 2025 and took well-supported strike action last year in August, September and October. The strike action led to significant progress on key issues such as office attendance, but there has been a lack of progress on a number of other issues, which has led to the decision to reballot. Ofgem members are still awaiting a satisfactory pay offer, proper assurances on jobs including a commitment to no redundancies or compulsory relocations, and better agreements on how the decisions about these are made read more

PCS members at MHCLG ballot for strike action (27 Feb) – The members are in dispute over office closures, mandatory office attendance and changes to recruitment opportunities. PCS members at the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government will be balloted for industrial action from 2 March to 15 April in a dispute centred on three key issues: office closures, the imposition of a mandatory 60% office attendance policy, and changes to recruitment opportunities. The department’s plans affect 367 staff across six regional offices. By 2 March 2026, four of those offices will have closed, with three already shut leaving employees facing uncertainty, significantly longer commutes and restricted career progression read more

MOPAC members to strike for three more days (19 Feb) – The members at the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime are continuing their dispute over pay. PCS members working for the London Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) were initially offered a pay increase of only 1.5%. After pressure from PCS, the employer moved to 2% which is still below inflation, represents a real-terms pay cut, and falls short of the branch’s 4.1% pay claim. It is also one of the lowest pay rises across the public sector in London. Members took four days of strike action in January, but despite meeting with us twice since then the employer has made no meaningful offers. This has left members with no option than to turn to further strike action. The members will walk out on Tuesday 24, Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 February…Use our e-action to ask your MP to write to Sadiq Khan to ask him to resolve the dispute read more

Write to your MP to oppose DfE office closures (18 Feb) – Six offices of the Department for Education are earmarked for closure, impacting over 350 staff. The DfE plans to close offices in Croydon, Exeter, Leeds, Newcastle, Peterborough and Watford. At the same time it is refusing to consider proposals for increased homeworking or hybrid flexibility measures that could help avoid compulsory redundancies and reduce the impact on staff. Many of the affected buildings are government offices that will remain open for other departments, meaning that withdrawing DfE staff will not necessarily generate savings for the public purse. Use our e-action to ask your MP to write to the minister about the office closures. PCS members are taking part in a consultative ballot over the office closure plans, the potential job cuts and the current arbitrary office attendance rules. The ballot closes on 11 March read more

DWP members in Lincoln continue their strike action for a further two weeks (5 Jan) – DWP members in  Lincoln Service Centre began a further two weeks of strike action today (5) to follow on from the 31 days of strike action they have already taken. Members who work in the service centre are absolutely determined to fight to keep their jobs in Lincoln. As low paid workers they cannot afford to travel long distances to remain working in the DWP and they have been clear that redundancy is not an option for them. DWP are refusing to back down on their announcement to close the Lincoln Service Centre, which could see over 80 members of staff face the risk of redundancy read more

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Prospect

Reform UK’s Scottish manifesto an ‘all-out assault’ on public sector workers and the environment, says Prospect (20 Mar) – Prospect has blasted Reform UK’s manifesto for the  Holyrood election, which they launched at its Scottish Conference on Thursday, 19 March. Among the pledges in the manifesto are proposals to scrap all net zero subsidies and to create a Department of Government Efficiency to “cut waste and duplication.” Read more

Workplace case studies: Prospect secures positive outcomes for defence members (19 Mar) – Two separate cases, one for a defence rep and one for a defence member, demonstrates the value of union support in the workplace, and the positive difference that Prospect is able to help achieve read more

Proposed job cuts at UKNNL puts into doubt government’s lofty claims for nuclear, says Prospect (18 Mar) – Plans to cut around 200 jobs at the UK National Nuclear Laboratory, around a fifth of its current workforce, puts into question the government’s claims of a ‘golden age of nuclear’, says Prospect read more

AWE members turn out for strike action over shambolic restructure (12 Mar) – Prospect members working at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) went on strike today, Thursday 12 March, over a shambolic and botched restructure programme, where the senior management have failed to consult properly with staff. There was a strong and highly visible union presence at several of the entrance gates at the main AWE site at Aldermaston and there was also a vibrant picket line at the Burghfield site read more

FDA

Calls for significant cuts to the NI public sector workforce risks “scapegoating” NICS (18 Mar) – The FDA’s National Officer for Northern Ireland Robert Murtagh has pushed back against calls for significant cuts to the public sector workforce in Northern Ireland. The proposals were outlined in an article from Irish News columnist Newton Emerson, calling for the reduction of Northern Ireland’s public sector workforce in line with levels in Wales and Scotland read more

GMB  

Cadent gas workers announce strike days (24 Mar) – GMB members at Cadent Gas will walk out for six days as a dispute over excessive weekend working intensifies. Dozens of staff in the North West will strike on the following dates:-

Saturday 4 April, Sunday 5 April, Monday 6 April, Friday 10 April, Friday 17 April, Friday 24 April.

Frontline staff say they are regularly required to work more than half of all weekends, leaving little opportunity for proper family time, rest days or holidays. Despite repeated warnings from workers Cadent management, who do not work weekends, continue to insist the current rota is ‘reasonable’. Workers are calling for a modest improvement: reducing their weekend commitments by just one weekend a year read more

Nursery funding ‘welcome’ but workers must be valued – GMB (23 Mar) – GMB Union has welcomed the Government’s school based nurseries programme read more

G4S closes Bootle depot putting 80 Jobs at risk (23 Mar) – GMB Union has today hit out at G4S Cash Solutions following the “devastating” announcement that it intends to close its historic depot in Bootle, putting approximately 80 local jobs at risk. The security giant has informed staff that operations will be centralised at a site in Manchester. GMB understands that workers are being “invited” to relocate—a move that would add hours of travel to their working day—with claims emerging that those unable to make the commute face dismissal without redundancy pay. GMB is currently meeting with affected members and exploring all options, including industrial action, to protect livelihoods read more

Shell Bacton Gas Terminal workers vote to renew strike action (20 Mar) – Altrad employees at the Shell Bacton Gas Terminal in Norfolk have voted overwhelmingly to continue their pay-related strike action, which entered its sixth month today [20 March]. GMB Union, which is representing the members, recorded 100 per cent vote in favour on a 96 per cent turnout. Altrad employees are currently paid around £1.20 per hour less than workers doing the same jobs at neighbouring terminals. The vote to continue strike action comes after the workers rejected a pay offer from Altrad, which would have seen them enjoy two weeks of pay parity before being paid on average 71p less an hour than their colleagues from April read more

Almost 1,500 cash protection officers ready to strike (19 Mar) – Almost 1,500 cash handlers working for G4S and Loomis are ready to strike over pay. In separate consultative ballots across both companies, more than 90 per cent said they were ready to walk out after bosses announced pay freezes. Almost 95 per cent also rejected the offer, which represents a massive real terms pay cut in the face of rising inflation. GMB Members working for G4S Cash and Loomis deliver millions of pounds each week across the country to banks and businesses – a dangerous job which leaves them open to attack. If the workers went on strike, ATMs might be left without cash, while airports may run out of foreign currency read more

GMB responds to steel strategy (19 Mar) – GMB has responded to the Government’s steel strategy, announced today [Thursday] read more

Peterborough Council to bring waste services back in-house (18 Mar) – GMB Union has reacted to news that Peterborough City Council will transfer hundreds of staff working in waste, passenger transport, streets and cleaning services teams from Peterborough Limited, bringing them back in-house. Peterborough Limited, a private company owned by the council, was at the forefront of an industrial dispute last year, which saw essential council workers represented by GMB threaten to take strike action over pay. Strikes were averted following an improved pay award and the council agreeing to insource some workers. The transfer is due to take place on 1 April 2026 read more

‘Defiant’ hospital workers plan further protests over pay and sick pay (18 Mar) – Outsourced Lewisham Hospital workers determined to win adequate sick pay and the London Living Wage, says GMB. As part of an ongoing campaign, GMB members at Lewisham Hospital will stage two demonstrations tomorrow [Thursday 19 March]. Domestic, portering and catering staff who have been outsourced to transnational company ISS will protest outside the hospital main entrance at 12noon and then again at 2pm. They are demanding the London Living Wage as well as an adequate sick pay scheme in a GMB campaign, which has already seen them hold three lunchtime demos read more

Gig economy must help drivers amid fuel crisis (17 Mar) – Gig economy companies must help riders amid high fuel prices caused by the conflict in Iran, GMB Union has said. The union has written to Uber, Deliveroo and Bolt calling on them to support drivers through this period. Petrol prices have risen at their fastest rate since 2022, reaching their highest level in 18 months on Friday read more

Bentley to cut 150 jobs (17 Mar) – Luxury car-maker Bentley is to cut 150 jobs at its Crewe plant. The car-maker made the announcement earlier today [Tuesday] citing a 40 per cent drop in profits read more

Brighton Pavilion declare ‘open season’ on staff terms and conditions (13 Mar) – Shame on BHCC allowing trust to strip pay and staff benefits, says GMB

Workers at the iconic Brighton Pavilion face swingeing cuts to their pay, terms and conditions this spring. Staff are employed by a trust outsourced from Brighton and Hove City Council (BHCC), so enjoy the same contract terms as council workers, including access to pay rises, the Local Government Pension Scheme and benefits such as holiday allowance, parental leave and sick pay. GMB has been told the trust will now pull workers from this agreement, meaning their access to the attached benefits package is severely under threat read more

Net-A-Porter workers in strike vote (6 Mar) – More than 100 workers at the luxury retailer’s Charlton warehouse will vote on whether to walk out over the broken promise. Net-A-Porter – which sells high end goods including a £9,000 bag, £14,000 dress and a £158,000 necklace – promised to pay the London Living Wage in 2021 but has now offered workers significantly less. Under current proposals the lowest paid staff will receive £14.41 per hour. Meanwhile the designer store just completed a redundancy process in which many workers who volunteered to leave were refused because they were considered ‘too valuable’ to the business read more

Dartford bin workers in strike ballot (6 Mar) – More than 45 staff on the refuse contract – run by FCC – will take part in the vote, the dates of which will be announced in the coming weeks. A majority of 92 per cent rejected the company’s offer of a rise of just 3.4% read more

Docker strike hits petroleum giant (6 Mar) – GMB union has today announced that workers at Immingham based petroleum contractor Briggs Marine will take strike action next week. The industrial action will begin on Monday 9 March with nearly fifty workers expected to take part. The dispute comes after company bosses were accused of dismissing employees outside of due process, with the union labelling the process ‘a disgrace.’ Workers at the Briggs Marine site at Immingham Docks operate one of the UK’s largest petroleum product terminals, handling imports and exports of vital fuels from across the world read more

Cumbria packing workers in strike vote (4 Mar) – Workers at a Cumbrian packaging firm will now be balloted for industrial action after conciliation talks through ACAS failed to make progress on pay. More than 100 production workers at Futamura, in Wigton, have rejected the company’s 1.2 per cent offer, insisting it falls far short of an inflation‑linked rise. Members say the offer amounts to a real‑terms pay cut. Two further proposals made by the company were also rejected, as they required workers to self‑fund any increase through severe cuts to sick pay, alongside discussion of potential ‘affordable redundancies.’ GMB represents production workers, alongside wider teams of office staff, team leaders, engineers and electricians employed at the site read more

Strike at Shard and Everton stadium steel firm (12 Feb) – More than 100 workers are set to strike at the UK’s largest structural steel contractor. Staff at Severfield Plc’s site in Bolton, will walk out after being offered a 0 per cent ‘pay rise’ by bosses. More than 90% of GMB members, working as welders, platers and machine operators, voted in favour of strike action at the company’s Lostock site. The company, which has provided the steel work for iconic projects like the Shard and the new Everton stadium, says it suffered a loss and won’t provide a pay rise. GMB members have been conducting an overtime ban this week, and will start with one full day of strike action on Monday 16 February, followed by two full days of strike action on Monday 23 February and Tuesday 24 February read more

Strike vote at Bridgend insulation firm (12 Feb) – Workers at a Bridgend insulation firm have begun voting on strike action. More than 100 workers at Rockwool Limited will take part in the ballot after bosses cut pay and forced staff to work on bank holidays. The ballot closes on 2 March 2026 read more

Merton school support staff balloted for strike action (9 Feb) – Staff are losing around a thousand pounds every year and are sick of waiting. GMB members working as school support staff within London Borough of Merton will be balloted for strike action over a long-standing pay discrepancy. TAs and school support staff within LB Merton receive London Weighting at the Outer London rate, while their teacher colleagues in the same schools receive the higher Inner London rate – a difference of £1400 per year on average. Despite members having submitted a petition of more than 500 signatures last year, discussions with the Labour local authority to find a resolution to this problem have now broken down. The ballot will open on 27 February with any action to take place in the run up to the upcoming local elections in May, in which Labour Councillors will be up for re-election read more

Hula-Hoops and Pom Bears workers vote to strike (6 Feb) – Workers making Hula Hoops, McCoy’s, Pom‑Bears and Discos have voted to strike. Dozens of staff at KP Snacks’ site in Billingham, Country Durham, voted to walk out in a dispute over additional duties imposed without extra pay or proper consultation. Bosses have cut process workers in crisps and snacks to a single break per shift. Workers have also raised concerns that operational changes have compromised safety, including leaving heat exchangers running during breaks without proper supervision. GMB Union will now meet with members to discuss strike dates – any industrial action could disrupt the supply of popular snack brands, including Hula Hoops, McCoy’s, Pom‑Bears and Discos read more

Hundreds of Barnsley Hospital workers ready to strike (5 Feb) – Hundreds of workers at Barnsley NHS Trust have said they are ready to strike after bosses threatened them with fire and rehire. More than 600 workers took part in a consultative ballot – with 97 per cent voting in favour to taking strike action, on a turnout of more than 76 per cent. The trust wants to impose new contracts upon thousands of staff, including nurses, technicians and clerical workers, removing their right to a paid twenty-minute shift break. GMB has now lodged a formal dispute with the trust and will meet with reps to discuss next steps – including a full strike ballot – if the trust does not back down read more

Airedale hospital workers hand in 7,000 petition ahead of strike (16 Jan) – Striking Airedale Hospital workers will today [Friday, 16 January 2026] hand in 7,000 strong petition to bosses, days before they walk out for a week. More than 200 essential staff, including porters, domestic staff, catering teams, and security personnel, will strike from 20 January to 26 January, demanding NHS pensions for NHS work. Today GMB members will hand-deliver a petition with more than 7,000 signatures to Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Chief Executive, Foluke Ajayi. The affected staff were outsourced to AGH Solutions (AGHS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, in 2018. Since then, they have secured significant improvements to bring their terms and conditions closer to NHS standards. However, pension inequality remains unresolved read more

    

Unison     

Donate to support striking workers – As UNISON members continue to take strike action, the union is asking for donations to its strike fund   

Come together for the national demonstration this weekend (24 Mar) – General secretary, Andrea Egan, is encouraging members to bring flags and banners and join her at the Together Alliance national demonstration in central London this weekend read more

Opinion: Covid Inquiry shows why we need to fight for improved pay and conditions for health workers (20 Mar) – By UNISON general secretary Andrea Egan: We cannot expect healthcare workers to be ‘superhuman’ again. The Covid-19 public inquiry released its third report this week (18 March) on the impact of the pandemic on the UK’s healthcare systems. In response to overwhelming evidence from UNISON and other trade unions and experts, it found that the UK’s response to the pandemic was fundamentally undermined by a lack of capacity in the system. Without what the report calls the “extraordinary efforts” of the “superhuman” workforce, the entire healthcare system would have collapsed read more

Healthcare staff were let down by political leaders during pandemic (19 Mar) – Report makes clear proper NHS funding and full staffing are vital to ensure public safety. Commenting on the publication of the Covid Inquiry report into the NHS response to the pandemic today (Thursday), UNISON Covid lead and the union’s head of health during the pandemic Sara Gorton said: “Years of catastrophic underfunding and cuts put the NHS in a state of crisis long before Covid hit. That left the health service a whisker away from catastrophe. It was only the extraordinary courage and dedication of the NHS workforce that brought the system back from the brink. Austerity heightened every problem as the UK went into the pandemic. The NHS had been left critically undermined…” read more

Government extension to settlement period for migrant workers must be dropped (19 Mar) – Overseas staff are the backbone of public services. Commenting on reports the government is rethinking elements of its changes to the settlement period for migrant workers, UNISON general secretary Andrea Egan said today (Thursday): “Simply watering down the harsh measures that were originally proposed isn’t good enough. The plans must be scrapped altogether. They amount to a nasty attack on migrant workers, who are the backbone of the NHS and social care system. These are people who do so much to enrich society more widely. The measures are also politically self-defeating. They’re likely to alienate Labour’s progressive support base and won’t convince Reform supporters to change tack…” read more

NHS pay rise improvement talks are vital, say unions (17 Mar) – Staff crisis will continue to grow without restructure progress. The government must improve on its inadequate 3.3% pay rise for NHS staff by putting significant extra funding into long-delayed pay restructure talks or the workforce crisis will continue to grow, health unions say today (Tuesday). In a joint letter to health secretary Wes Streeting, they warn the pay award fails to keep pace with the cost of living, won’t repair years of lost pay and doesn’t address lower rises for those on Agenda for Change contracts than other groups. Staff are angry and feel deeply let down after years of falling wages and relentless pressure, say the 14 unions representing more than a million health workers. They point out that by relying on the discredited NHS Pay Review Body process rather than negotiating directly with unions, ministers have wasted an opportunity to deal with headline pay awards and much-needed reform of the pay structure at the same time through comprehensive talks. The 2026/27 headline rise will be imposed in a fortnight (on 1 April), with negotiations to follow on structural fixes, which would mean additional rises for some staff if a deal is reached. But unions say those talks were promised more than 18 months ago and the ongoing delay has wrecked trust read more

Sign this petition: To: Northern Care Alliance – Our Skills Don’t Pay The Bills!

Critical Care NHS workers striking after Greater Manchester’s Northern Care Alliance cuts pay. NHS staff working at Salford Royal, Royal Oldham and Fairfield Hospital, Bury are in dispute with Northern Care Alliance Foundation Trust after the trust decided to cut their pay when they undertake overtime to cover staff shortages. The Trust fails to pay overtime in line with their terms and conditions of employment, NHS Agenda for Change. NCA have engaged an alternative private employer, ’NHS Professionals’, to cover shifts which means staff that assist the Trust in covering staff shortages are now seeing a significant drop in pay as well as being able to avoid employer pension contributions. NHS Professionals last year posted pre tax profits of a staggering £11.4M. Critical Care units across the Trust which cover Salford, Oldham, Rochdale and Bury are heavily reliant on covering shifts to meet safe staffing requirements or critically ill patients.  The specialist nature of the care required in critical care means most shifts are picked up by staff already working on the unit. UNISON members are calling on the Trust to be given the right to choose whether to work the shift as Overtime or NHSP Bank rates. This choice would allow staff to be paid the correct pay for the crucial duties they are undertaking and no less for additional work they carry out whilst also being able to contribute to their pension. The worrying reliance on a private entity in the NHS is forcing UNISON members into financial hardship. A UNISON member said “I’m a highly trained and skilled clinical professional and I literally keep people alive. NCA has reduced my pay by £10 an hour for our extra hours rates that we rely on and I’m now struggling to make ends meet at home”. After over a year of trying to resolve this issue with the Trust UNISON members have now voted 98% in favour of strike action support striking workers

Defend Ameen Hadi and Salford City UNISON against the Far Right sign petition – ‘We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with trade unionist and lifelong anti racist campaigner Ameen Hadi. He has been placed under investigation by Salford City Council, following a malicious allegation, driven by far right YouTubers and Fascist Tommy Robinson, after a TOGETHER unity rally in Manchester on International Women’s Day’

Reinstate Connor UNISON Newham libraries rep! Connor is a UNISON Steward at Newham Council, East London. He works in libraries, and was suspended from work on 18 Feb 2026 following his participation in the ‘Save Newham Libraries’ public campaign. Save Newham Libraries is a community campaign setup to stop the Council slashing the libraries budget by 50%, with closures, staff cuts, and service reductions for residents threatened Sign this open letter

Mining museum bosses’ refusal to come clean over finances is prolonging strikes (19 Feb) – Managers’ failure to come clean over finances at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield is prolonging a long-running pay dispute. The union says it has repeatedly asked for clarity on the museum’s financial position in an effort to find a solution that suits all parties. Staff, who’ve been on strike since mid-August, submitted six questions to the museum last month, following a pledge from bosses that these would be answered. However, no response has been provided and UNISON says it hasn’t received any correspondence from the museum since then. The refusal to answer questions after encouraging workers to submit them is another bizarre move from chief executive Lynn Dunning. Dunning has previously called the police to a picket line, spent tens of thousands of pounds on private security and attempted to include a clause in a pay offer which would’ve seen staff disciplined when they returned to work read more

Branches or individual members can donate using the details below:-

Cheque payment – Please make cheques payable to ‘UNISON Wakefield’, mark payment as ‘MINING STRIKE on reverse of cheque and send to: Wakefield District UNSION, 18 Gills Yard, Wakefield WF1 3BZ.

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Sign this petition calling for the resignation of the board of trustees and chief executive Lynn Dunning

Hospital staff in Leeds to walk out for further strikes next week (12 Feb) – Low-paid NHS staff working in operating theatres across Leeds will be on strike next week in their ongoing pay dispute. Theatre assistants, who are on the lowest grade in the NHS, will walk out for five days on Monday (16 February). They want to be regraded and paid properly for the extra duties they say they’re now carrying out, and compensated for the extra work they’ve already done. They’re required to carry out crucial clinical work, such as establishing sterile environments, collecting samples and assisting with complex machinery. Staff, who work at three sites run by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, went on strike for five days earlier this month, as well as for 48 hours in December. UNISON says the trust’s refusal to pay staff fairly is out of line with other hospital trusts across the region, and around the country. Since 2021, over 100 NHS trusts and health boards in England and Wales have agreed deals on regrading and back pay worth £250m for over 65,000 healthcare support workers. This includes a deal at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust, which was overseen by the current interim chief executive at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Brendan Brown read more

NHS pay award will leave staff angry, says UNISON (12 Feb) – Below-inflation rise means staff are expected to deliver more for less. Commenting on the 3.3% wage rise announced today (Thursday) for most NHS staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland for 2026/27, UNISON head of health Helga Pile said: “Hard-pressed NHS staff will be downright angry at another below-inflation pay award…” read more

Andrea Egan speaks at rally against university cuts in Southend: The job cuts in Southend are symptomatic of a “growing financial crisis across universities” (6 Feb) – General secretary Andrea Egan (pictured above) joined the crowds of union members at the University of Essex yesterday at a protest against job cuts and the closure of the university’s Southend campus. UNISON is one of three unions fighting back against the university’s plans to cut 400 jobs and close the Southend campus over the summer. It represents the cleaners, student support workers and other non-academic staff affected by the cuts and is in a formal dispute with the university read more

Special educational needs support staff to strike next week (21 Jan) – School staff supporting pupils with special educational needs (SEN) in Essex have announced a series of strikes over a lack of recognition and pay, UNISON says today. Teaching assistants, pastoral support workers and other support staff at three schools run by the Lift Schools multi-academy trust will walk out next Wednesday (28 January), and seven further days from 5 to 13 February. The specialist staff – at Columbus School & College in Chelmsford, Pioneer in Basildon and Lift Clacton’s The Key – say they should receive an additional allowance for their specialist roles read more

Stop the Council Cuts – Sign the petition: Save our Services – Nottingham City Unison    

Sign open letter: Reinstate Tom Barker, UNISON rep at Ash Field Academy in Leicester

(Hosted by Leicester and District Trades Union Council).

To Paul Stone, Discovery Schools Academy Trust (DSAT)

Leader, and Richard Bettsworth, Chair of DSAT Trustees.

On October 20 2025, UNISON members at Ash Field Academy, a special educational needs school in Leicester, voted to take industrial action over inadequate staffing levels, excessive workload, and health and safety. Staffing levels at Ash Field, which was taken over by Discovery Schools Academy Trust (DSAT) in 2024, have been diminishing over the last year as DSAT sought to make savings. Combined with a redundancy consultation that took place shortly before the 2025 Summer break, this led to the loss of approximately 10% of the school’s workforce, mostly from frontline workers. These cuts have greatly increased the workload of the remaining staff, stretching them to the point that their health and safety is at risk. The union, which represents around 100 members at the school, completed a formal industrial action ballot on October 20. 86% of members voted in favour of strike action, on a turnout of 60%. Just three working days after the result of this ballot, UNISON’s lead steward at the school, Tom Barker, was suspended from his duties. Tom was given no prior warning of a complaint and was escorted from the premises. This is a disgraceful act of trade union victimisation and potentially places DSAT outside the relevant employment laws. Tom’s suspension is a direct attempt to silence union members and victimise their rep who also now sits on the UNISON’s National Executive Council (NEC)  SIGN HERE

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NIPSA

NIPSA Annual Report 2025 ‘For Working Class Unity and a Socialist Economy’ is now available to download here

NIPSA Response To Statement By The Health Minister (13 Feb) – NIPSA notes with serious concern the statement by the Health Minister, Mike Nesbitt, regarding the pay recommendations from the NHS Pay Review Body. While the Minister’s statement references a 3.3% uplift and speaks of ambitions and desire, it falls far short of what is required for NIPSA members on low pay across health and social care. For staff struggling at the sharpest end of the cost-of-living crisis, this statement provides no certainty and no reassurance. Crucially, it does not deliver a clear, written commitment to the Real Living Wage from 1 April 2026. Without such a commitment, there is no basis on which NIPSA can withdraw its industrial action process. Warm words and aspirations are not enough for workers who are already at breaking point. Let us be clear, without a firm Real Living Wage commitment, many of our members will, from 1 April, be paid below the Statutory minimum wage of £12.71 unless they once again receive a last-minute legal compliance payment simply to keep their employer within the law. This is a disgrace. Workers who care for and support the most vulnerable people in our society should not have to rely on forced top-ups just to reach the minimum wage. There must be no more compliance top-up payments for health and social care staff in Northern Ireland. Our members deserve a decent wage not just this year, but every year. The Real Living Wage of £13.45 from April first must be the starting point to fixing this long-standing injustice. NIPSA must also be clear: if these stated desires, ambitions and promises are not converted into firm, written commitments including the delivery of the Real Living Wage from 1 April 2026 then our plans for industrial action will proceed with haste. Our members cannot wait any longer. They deserve certainty, dignity, and pay they can live on read more

   

Royal College of Nursing     

COVID inquiry: ‘Never again can nursing and the public be failed like this’ (19 Mar) – Nursing staff were a constant presence during the pandemic, and now formal recognition of long COVID as an industrial disease is urgently needed read more

Unions escalate action with joint letter to challenge 3.3% pay award in England (17 Mar) – Fourteen unions have told the Westminster government that NHS staff feel “angry and let down”, and are urging their members to sign the letter  read more

RCN opens donations to strike fund in response to public desire to support striking staff – We’ve launched a donation page for people to financially help nursing staff on strike read more 

RCM

This is the Government’s last chance to improve on its inadequate 3.3% award: sign the joint open letter to Wes Streeting (17 Mar) – The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) is urging members to sign a joint open letter to Health Secretary Wes Streeting, demanding the Government commit real funding to structural pay reform talks to deliver the pay improvement NHS staff deserve. The RCM is one of 14 health unions representing more than a million health workers. All are united in warning that the 3.3% award fails to keep pace with the cost of living, does nothing to recover more than a decade of lost pay and does not address the pay disparity faced by those on Agenda for Change contracts in recent years read more

CSP

CSP members urged to sign open letter on NHS pay (17 Mar) – Unions including the CSP are encouraging members in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to add their voice to calls for better NHS pay. An open letter signed by the pay leads of all unions on the NHS staff council urges health ministers in those countries to improve on the 2026/27 pay award of 3.3 per cent. It also warns that negotiations over the pay structure that covers all Agenda for Change workers, including physiotherapy staff, must produce good outcomes. The letter has been placed online and made available for NHS staff to add their names and demonstrate to ministers the strength of feeling over pay read more

BMA

‘Almost superhuman’ staff saved NHS from Covid disaster, inquiry finds (20 Mar) – Health service ill-prepared and already struggling even before pandemicread more

Resident doctors in England vote for six months more industrial action (2 Feb) – Resident doctors in England have overwhelmingly voted in favour of a mandate for industrial action for a further six months. This is in support of their ongoing campaign for more training posts and restoring the pay they have lost in real terms over the past 16 years. With 93% (or 26,696) of resident doctors voting yes on a turnout of 53% the resident doctors committee (RDC) is urging the Government to act immediately to prevent further strikes taking place in the coming months read more

NASUWT   

Job cuts threat prompts strike action at Nottingham and Lincolnshire schools (23 Mar) – Members of NASUWT – The Teachers’ Union at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Catholic Primary Academy in Nottingham and Our Lady of Good Counsel Primary School in Sleaford are due to begin two days of strike action tomorrow (24th March) over proposed job cuts which they believe would seriously affect the quality of education and support provided to pupils. The Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Multi Academy Trust, which runs both schools, is planning to reduce the number of teaching jobs across the Trust. The proposed staffing cuts equate to 2.5 members of staff at Our Lady of Good Counsel and 1.03 at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour. This is on top of planned cuts to teaching assistant posts and some voluntary staff redundancies. The Trust has cited financial pressures as the reason for proposing these staffing cuts, however financial data shows that in August 2025 the Trust had reserves of £5.69 million. Strike action is planned for the 24th and 25th March. NASUWT will be picketing outside the school on each strike day between approximately 8am and 9am read more

Further strike action at Stockport school over continued threat to jobs (23 Mar) – Members of NASUWT – The Teachers’ Union at St Mary’s Catholic Voluntary Academy in Stockport are taking two further days of strike action tomorrow (Tuesday) and Thursday as a result of the failure of the employer to engage meaningfully over planned job cuts. NASUWT teachers have already taken three days of strike action over the last two weeks over plans by the St Ralph Sherwin Multi-Academy Trust, which runs the school, to cut one full-time equivalent teaching post, reduce six hours from the admin assistant role and cut ten Kids Club administration hours. The Trust has not responded to NASUWT requests for further negotiations since before the start of strike action on 12th March. The Trust’s failure to engage with us has made further strike action necessary. The Trust has cited financial pressures as the reason for proposing staffing cuts, however the Union does not believe that these planned reductions in staffing will solve the significant financial issues being experienced by the Trust and believes that stronger financial management and accountability are needed. NASUWT will be picketing outside the school on each strike day between approximately 7.45am and 9am read more

Further strike action at Hexham school over continuing failure to address behaviour management (23 Mar) – Members of NASUWT-The Teachers’ Union at Haydon Bridge High School in Hexham will be taking the first of 12 planned days of strike action tomorrow (Tuesday) over the continuing failure of school management to put in place an effective pupil behaviour management system. NASUWT teachers at Haydon Bridge took strike action in December over a lack of action to deal with poor pupil behaviour. Further action was suspended to allow school management to implement a new behaviour policy and measures to tackle disruptive behaviour. However, several months on and there has been no improvement, leaving NASUWT with no choice than to take further strike action. NASUWT teachers will take strike action on 24th, 25th, 26th and 31st March and 1st, 2nd, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 28th, 29th and 30th April. NASUWT will be picketing outside the school tomorrow (Tuesday 24th) and on April 1st between approximately 8am and 8.45am. This action excludes year 10, 11 and 13 examination classes. NASUWT members will attend work and teach these lessons only read more

Fire and rehire threat prompts strike action at Westminster school (23 Mar) – Members of NASUWT – The Teachers’ Union at Arnold House School in St John’s Wood are due to take strike action tomorrow (24th March) over attempts to make teachers choose between their pension and their pay. Teachers being threatened with fire and rehire if they do not agree to either withdraw from the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) and be enrolled in an inferior pension scheme, or to give up some of their pay through salary sacrifice in order to remain in the TPS. The school is already in phased withdrawal from the TPS, but existing members of the scheme had been assured by school management at the time that decision was taken that they could remain in the TPS. There was no suggestion at that time that they would have to sacrifice any of their pay in order to do so. NASUWT will be picketing outside the school between approximately 7.45am and 9am read more

Abergele teachers strike over culture of bullying and intimidation (6 Mar) – On Monday 9th March, teachers from NASUWT – The Teachers’ Union at Ysgol Emrys Ap Iwan will take a day of strike action in protest of the continuous bullying and intimidation they face from the school’s leadership team. NASUWT Cymru has had concerns about the wellbeing of members at the school for a long time. Following a rushed restructure where management positions were removed but management work was not, teachers experienced increased workloads and problems with school systems and policies. When they raised concerns, they were penalised by senior leaders. The union has tried to work with leaders to resolve these issues but does not believe that the restructuring consultation was meaningful. Progress made at meetings does not seem to be translated to the workplace read more

Job changes prompt strike action by Kent teachers (4 Mar) – Members of NASUWT – The Teachers’ Union working for Specialist Teaching and Learning Services (STLS) at Kent County Council began five days of strike action today over fundamental changes to their job roles which are undermining their ability to provide high-quality support for schools and pupils with disabilities and special needs. Teachers working for STLS work with schools to provide education support services for children and young people across Kent with disabilities or complex needs. Last September the council took control of STLS and made significant changes to job roles, effectively removing STLS teachers from working directly within schools. Strike action is planned for 4th, 5th, 10th, 11th and 12th March read more

Unsafe working environment prompts strike action at Rochdale schools (24 Feb) – Members of NASUWT – The Teachers’ Union at St Cuthbert’s RC High School in Rochdale began nine days of strike action over the failure of the trust leadership to provide adequate staffing and resources and to put in place systems to address violent and abusive behaviour from some pupils. The Union believes that St Teresa of Calcutta Academy Trust has failed to invest in and maintain the school, resulting in an unsafe and chaotic working environment for staff, which has resulted in volatile and violent behaviour, unsustainable levels of workload, high levels of staff absence, and working conditions that are impeding teachers’ ability to deliver for pupils. Teachers have been hit, shoved, grabbed, sworn at, threatened and slammed with doors. Pupils have smashed windows, overturned tables and kicked doors open. Teachers have had to receive hospital treatment for their injuries in some cases. Members believe that the school has been stripped of staff and resources since it became part of St Theresa of Calcutta Academy Trust and that this has contributed to the turmoil at the school. There has been an overall reduction of more than 20 members of staff which is driving up workloads for remaining staff and leaving important roles unfilled, further exacerbating challenges in managing pupil behaviour and meeting pupils’ needs. Funding for educational equipment and resources has dwindled to the point where members report that even basics such as books and pens are in short supply. Strike action is planned for 24th, 25th and 26th February, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 10th, 11th and 12th March. The NASUWT will be picketing outside the school on each strike day between 8am and 8.45am read more

Tewkesbury teachers taking further strike action over behaviour management (19 Feb) – Members of NASUWT-The Teachers’ Union at Tewkesbury Academy in Gloucestershire will take further strike action from next Monday (23rd February) over the continued failure of school management to address abusive and disruptive behaviour from a minority of students. Despite two meetings since strike action started on 4th February with representatives from the Cabot Learning Federation, which runs the school, no significant progress has been made towards addressing the concerns of teachers. Therefore the NASUWT has had no choice but to notify the employer of nine further days of strike action. Strike action is scheduled for 23rd, 24th and 25th February, 4th, 5th, 6th, 11th, 12th and 13th March. NASUWT will be picketing outside the school between approximately 7am and 9.30am on each day of strike action read more

Culture of violence and intimidation prompts teacher strikes at two primary schools (5 Jan) – Teachers at Lily Lane Primary School in Manchester and Ravensfield Primary School in Tameside – part of Changing Lives in Collaboration (CLiC) Trust – will begin strike action on Tuesday 6th January. Members of NASUWT – The Teachers’ Union at both schools report that pupil-on-teacher and pupil-on pupil-assaults have grown to untenable levels, and that leaders are refusing to acknowledge or resolve urgent issues around health and safety, safeguarding, or staff safety and wellbeing. In some cases, the schools’ culture of violence is causing pupils to be fearful of attending school read more

    

EIS   

CoGC strike continues, demo to be held outside meeting of college board on Wednesday (24 Mar) – Striking lecturers from the City of Glasgow College (CoGC) Welding and Fabrication department will join with supporters to stage a demonstration outside a meeting of the College board on Wednesday. The lecturers are currently engaged in a programme of strike action over Health and Safety issues in the department at the college’s Riverside campus, including the lack of adequate safety measures to protect staff and students from welding fumes, which are known to be carcinogenic. The solidarity demonstration will take place at the College’s Cathedral Street entrance on Wednesday 25th March, from 1500hrs – 1630 hours read more

Welding & Fabrication Lecturers at CoGC Riverside Campus to Commence Strike over H&S Concerns (18 Mar) – Members of the EIS-FELA who teach welding and fabrication at the City of Glasgow College’s Riverside campus will take strike action from 20th March over health and safety concerns including exposure to carcinogenic fumes from welding. The local EIS-FELA branch lodged a dispute with the City of Glasgow College on 24th November 2025 due to fears that lecturers and students were being exposed to carcinogenic fumes during welding without an adequate risk assessment or protective equipment read more

Agreement on Teacher Workload Dispute Reached – All Industrial Action Suspended (13 Mar) – The EIS has announced that it is suspending all planned industrial action over teacher workload, following an agreement being reached between the EIS, Scottish Government and Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA). A draft agreement, approved earlier this week by both the EIS and Scottish Government, was also approved by COSLA leaders at a meeting earlier today. The draft agreement, as approved by all three sides, will now pass to the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers (SNCT) for formal approval and implementation. The agreement will deliver the promised 90-minute per week reduction in the maximum class contact time for teachers as a means to tackling excessive teacher workload and to provide more time for teachers to undertake important areas of activity such as the preparation and correction of pupil work read more

ENU Lecturers to take Fourth Day of Strike Action, with no Further Movement on Job Security (20 Feb) – Lecturing staff at Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) are taking their fourth day of strike, demonstrating their determination to protect jobs and oppose any move by the university to seek compulsory redundancies. Members of the Educational Institute of Scotland University Lecturers Association (EIS ULA) will be picketing again today and next week, maintaining their presence at the university’s three campuses. The continuing strike action highlights the concern among staff regarding the potential impact of the planned cuts on their and their colleagues’ jobs as well as on academic provision for students read more

EIS Members at Craigclowan School Continue with Programme of Strike Action to Protect Their Pensions (21 Jan) – EIS members at Craigclowan School near Perth will continue with their fifth day of strike action as a dispute over cuts to the staff pension scheme continues. Members are striking in order to protect their pension from being moved out of the Scottish Teachers’ Pension Scheme (STPS) and into an inferior scheme as part of a cost cutting measure read more

INTO

RE: TNC Communication (11 Mar) – INTO cautiously welcomes the positive steps being taken by TNC to provide an update, as issued in communications on the 10 March, to teachers and school leaders on recent discussions within TNC on the findings and recommendations within the Independent Review of Teacher Workload read more

UCU     

UCU Stop the Cuts campaign  

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Strikes escalate at University of Sheffield International College over pay freeze (24 Mar) – Staff are on strike today and Thursday at University of Sheffield International College (USIC) as action escalates in a fight against a pay freeze. UCU’s members have already been on picket lines for five days (Monday 16 February, and Tuesday 10, Thursday 12, Monday 16 and Wednesday 18 March) and will also strike on Monday 30 March, and Wednesday 1 April. A meeting took place yesterday with management representatives from USIC’s owner Study Group and UCU. The union made it clear that members are open to meaningful negotiation to resolve the dispute and end the strike action but no offer was made. An agreement was reached at the end of the meeting to bring in ACAS to try and break the stalemate. Staff are on picket lines each day of strike action [NOTE 1]. The strikes come as management told staff their cost of living pay increase, which had already been delayed by six months, would by 0% for the second year in a row. Despite freezing staff pay CEO Ian Chrichton took home over £600k in 2024, including a bonus of over £195k read more

Social Mobility Index shows Reform & Tory MPs don’t know value of higher education (24 Mar) – Responding to HEPI’s publication of the English Social Mobility Index, UCU said it showed the valuable work its members do to improve life chances read more

Strike rally at Northumbria University over “pension theft” & pay freeze as management wastes millions on capital spend (24 Mar) – Northumbria University staff will rally on Wednesday 25 March as they protest management’s attempt to rob them of their pension. The rally takes place on the first of three strike days this week (Wednesday 25, Thursday 26 and Friday 27 March). Staff will be on picket lines from 9am Wednesday morning before the rally starts . They have already taken twelve days of action since February and will strike for five more in April if management refuses to enter meaningful negotiations to help resolve the dispute. The rally will begin at Newcastle Civic Centre at 12.30pm and attendees will march to Grey’s Monument. Speakers include UCU general secretary Jo Grady, president-elect Dyfrig Jones, as well as reps from Northumbria UCU, sister UCU branches also under attack and sister unions. The dispute is over management’s decision to force staff out of the post-92 university standard pension, the Teacher’s Pension Scheme, by freezing the pay of any staff member who tries to stay in it. The university has now told staff it needs to cut £25 million from university expenditure by the end of the year (December 2026) read more

Staff vote to strike at London Met University following proposed job cuts (19 Mar) – Industrial action is expected at London Metropolitan University after 120 jobs were put at risk. It comes after more than 90% supported a walkout in a ballot on industrial action. “I am proud of this result, the demand for action is so strong,” said Christina Paine, University and College Union (UCU) branch chair at London Met University. Despite postal delays and a devastating situation, our members have delivered a historic result by decisively smashing the trade union ballot thresholds. This vote sends a clear message that staff are united in defending jobs, protecting our university, and demanding a serious alternative to compulsory redundancies,” she added” read more on Islington Now website

Support the London Met protests:-

Wednesday 25th March 1pm – Goulston St entrance, Aldgate Campus

Thursday 26th March 1pm – Rocket entrance, Holloway Rd, North Campus

Sign the petition against the job cuts

Meningitis outbreak prompts union to demand staff & students be allowed to work from home (19 Mar) – UCU has written to its members at Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) to tell them it will back every member who wants to work remotely as meningitis cases continue to rise. Whereas the University of Kent has tried to minimise on campus working, CCCU has refused to do so. This is despite UCU requests, a confirmed case, the anxiety caused to staff and students by campus remaining open, and the external risk to the reputation of the university. The union is now calling on management to email all staff and make clear if they choose to stay off campus, they will face no disciplinary action whatsoever read more

More strikes loom at University of Essex among redundancy chaos (17 Mar) – University of Essex staff members have backed escalating strike action as they fight to save jobs, student provision and the Southend Campus. The vote comes after the university emailed dozens of staff to tell them their jobs were now safe, only for them to be emailed again three days later and told this was a mistake, and they are still in fact, at risk of redundancy. UCU is pressing the university to confirm how many staff are at risk, as numbers management has set out vary by more than 700 people. During a packed branch meeting last week, Essex UCU members voted to strike as early as next month if management refuses to commence serious negotiations aimed at resolving the dispute. The vote also paves the way for coordinated strike action with professional services staff in Unite and Unison once their ballots close and a potential marking and assessment boycott if the dispute remains unresolved by exam season. Staff returned to the picket line this week as part of 16 days of action throughout February and March. The university originally said it intended to axe 200 academic and 200 professional staff and close the Southend campus, all before the start of the next academic year. Management has now confirmed it has made over £10m of savings – more than half of its target – after staff worked together to reduce their hours and many made the tough decision to take voluntary redundancy read more

Windsor Forest Colleges staff begin two-day strike tomorrow over low pay (16 Mar) – Staff at Windsor Forest Colleges Group will down tools tomorrow and Wednesday after management refused to make a fair pay award. Four colleges across Berkshire and Surrey will be hit by the action: Slough and Langley College, Windsor College, Strode’s College, and the Berkshire College of Agriculture. Staff will be on picket lines each strike day. The strike comes after management refused to make an improved offer at a meeting with UCU on Thursday 5 March and the board of governors refused to meet with the union. Staff had already voted to reject an improved offer of just £500 after they had also rejected an offer of 1.7%. Even with the additional £500, all staff would be paid below the rate recommended by employer body the Association of Colleges (4%) read more

Durham University staff begin industrial action this week (26 Feb) – Staff at Durham University will begin working to rule tomorrow. The start of the action coincides with Trades Union Congress’ (TUC) ‘work your proper hours day’ and will highlight the unbearably high workloads management has forced onto staff after axing hundreds of their colleagues. Working to rule includes strictly adhering to mandated hours, refusing to undertake any voluntary activities, the withdrawing of ‘goodwill’ and refusing to cover for absent colleagues. It will continue for six months, unless management begins meaningful negotiations over unfair workloads, with the potential for a reballot and extended mandate read more

Staff back industrial action in vote at University of Stirling (17 Feb) – Staff at the University of Stirling have today (Tuesday 17 February 2026) backed industrial action in a dispute about job cuts and the failure of management to rule out compulsory redundancies. In the ballot of University and College Union (UCU) Scotland members at Stirling university, 80% backed strike action on a turnout of 66%.  88% of those voting additionally said they would be willing to take part in action short of strike which could include not covering for absent colleagues, working to contract or undertaking voluntary activities. Action short of strike could also include a marking an assessment boycott. UCU members in the branch will now decide what action they want to take read more

Possible strikes at Aberdeen University as staff back industrial action (16 Feb) – Staff at the University of Aberdeen today (Monday 16 February 2026) voted to back industrial action in a dispute about cuts and the possible use of compulsory redundancies. The ballot of University and College Union (UCU) Scotland members at the university, saw 83% of those voting back strike action on a turnout of 60%. 90% also said they would take part in action short of strike. This can include working to contract, not covering for absent colleagues, or not undertaking voluntary activities. UCU members at Aberdeen will now decide the next steps in the dispute read more

Heriot-Watt University staff back industrial action (16 Feb) – Workers at Heriot-Watt University have today (Monday 16 February 2026) backed industrial action in a dispute about job cuts and the failure of management to rule out compulsory redundancies. In the ballot of University and College Union (UCU) Scotland members at the university, 74% of those voting backed strike action on a turnout of 70%. 87% also said they would be willing to take part in action short of strike which can include working to contract, not covering for absent colleagues, or undertaking voluntary activities. Following the results of the ballot, UCU members at the university will decide their next steps read more

Staff at New City College vote to strike over trade union victimisation (16 Feb) – Staff at Arbour Square and Tower Hamlets campuses of New City College in east London have overwhelmingly backed strike action in a dispute over the unfair dismissal of a long serving member of staff. An overwhelming 92% of those who voted backed strike action in a ballot with a turnout of 70%. The strike vote comes after Wojtek Dmochowski, a long-standing teacher and UCU branch rep, was unfairly dismissed just before Christmas (2025) after working at the college for over two decades. UCU is calling on the college to reinstate Wojtek and agree clear protocols for dealing with complaints or issues involving union representatives. A website and petition have been launched calling on the college to think again and reinstate Wojtek read more

Truro & Penwith College staff to strike over low pay & high workloads (11 Feb) – Staff at Truro and Penwith College will strike on Monday 23 February in an escalating dispute over low pay and poor working conditions. The union has already called three days of strike action since the start of the year (Wednesday 14 to Friday 16 January) after the college imposed a pay award of just 2%, only half that recommended by employer body the Association of Colleges. The college seems reluctant to engage in committing to agree to implement meaningful blocks of protected time to allow academic staff to properly plan, prepare and assess the work of their students. There was also a mass redundancy programme last year which has seen workloads rocket at a college that already has one of the highest weekly teaching allocations in the region read more

Strikes likely at Strathclyde University as staff vote for industrial action (9 Feb) – Staff at Strathclyde University have backed industrial action in a dispute about job cuts and the failure of management to rule out compulsory redundancies. In the ballot of UCU Scotland members at the university, 80% of those voting backed strike action on a turnout of 58%.  87% also said they would be willing to take part in action short of strike which can include working to contract, not covering for absent colleagues, or undertaking voluntary activities. Action short of strike could also include a marking an assessment boycott. Following the ballot for industrial action, UCU members at the university will now decide the next steps read more

Southampton Solent strike begins next week in fight over fire & rehire pension attack (3 Feb) – Staff at Southampton Solent University will take two days of strike action beginning next week after management forced staff out of their preferred pension scheme, and threatened to sack all those who refused to exit it. Staff will down tools on Monday 9 February and Tuesday 17 February, with pickets planned at the Spark Building and Michael Andrews Building (both at East Park Terrace, Southampton, SO14 0YN) between 8am and 1pm on both days. An overwhelming 93% of those who voted in the ballot backed strike action on a turnout of 72%. In December (2025) Solent moved 286 staff off of the university’s books and into a subsidiary company, Solent University Services Ltd (SUSL), forcing them out of the industry standard Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) and onto a scheme that allows Solent to pay less into staff pensions, leaving them poorer. University management told the 286 staff to email HR by “close of business” if they “object to the transfer” and that their employment would then cease immediately. The university has now stated its intention is to also move academic staff out of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme by the end of this academic year read more

Union condemns continued docking of staff pay following strike action at University of Sheffield (22 Jan) – UCU today condemned the lockout and withholding of staff pay at the University of Sheffield following lawful industrial action. Staff at the university took 16 days of strike action in November and December in a fight against job cuts in professional service staff and further plans to cut jobs in academic areas. The university has this week informed staff that if they do not reschedule any teaching lost during the strike (for which staff were not paid) wages would be withheld between 19 January and 6 February and any work undertaken regarded as voluntary. Over 900 students have this week signed an open letter to Sheffield’s vice-chancellor, Koen Lamberts, saying they have lost confidence in him and calling on him to resign read more

UCU fighting fund: the link is here and donations to the fund are spent on supporting members involved in important disputes.     

     

FBU   

Oxfordshire FBU members: Vote YES on your consultative ballots for industrial action and send them back by 30 March. This is your chance to send a clear message to management and politicians: abandon the cuts. Our safety, and our communities’ safety, is non-negotiable Oxfordshire FBU Facebook page

FBU launches national ‘Cuts Kill’ campaign – Our fire and rescue service is stretched to breaking point. The demands on firefighters are rising fast, with climate change creating more extreme wildfires, flooding and severe weather. Yet the service responsible for protecting us is being asked to do more with less. For over a decade, deep cuts have hollowed out the service. Across the country, fire engines are arriving at emergencies without enough crew on board to respond and save lives. Some engines aren’t leaving the fire station at all because there simply aren’t enough firefighters to staff them. Response times are getting longer every year. And in an emergency, every second counts. Cuts kill. Firefighters and communities have raised the alarm repeatedly, but those warnings have been brushed aside while politicians made decisions that stripped vital resources from the frontline. After 14 years of cuts and austerity, it’s time to draw a line in the sand… Join the fight

This fight is for every job, every station and every community. Wherever they try to force through more cuts, we must stand together and push back. Write to your MP and call on them to sign the Early Day Motion demanding investment in the fire and rescue service

To find out more about the campaign go to: https://www.fbu.org.uk/campaigns/cuts-kill

POA     

NEC minutes March 2026 read more

General Secretary update read more

National Chair update February 2026 read here  

Imposed NHS pay increase (24 Mar) – The POA, as one of the 14 trade unions on the NHS Staff Council, has agreed that there will be a campaign to register our disappointment with the imposed pay increase by the Government and to garner support from our members to place pressure on the Government to negotiate a fair and sustainable pay settlement for future years. To make your voice heard click on the link https://action.nhspay.org/page/187023/petition/1 complete the form and encourage other members you know to complete the form. Together we can put pressure on the Government to do the decent thing and pay health workers what they are worth read more

NHS pay rise improvement talks are vital, say unions (24 Mar) – The Government must improve on its inadequate 3.3% pay rise for NHS staff by putting significant extra funding into long-delayed pay restructure talks or the workforce crisis will continue to grow, Health Unions say. In a joint letter to Health Secretary Wes Streeting, they warn the pay award fails to keep pace with the cost of living, won’t repair years of lost pay, and doesn’t address the lower pay rises for those on Agenda for Change contracts than other groups in recent years read more

John McDonnell Pension Compensation Questions. On the 17th March John McDonnell MP Labour Hayes and Harlington and POA (23 Mar) – honorary life member asked the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of compensating people who were unable to pay (a) mortgages, (b) credit card Bills and (c) other household bills due to delays in payments from the Civil Service Pensions Scheme read more

Right To Strike Campaign – postcard action (23 Mar) – As part of our ongoing Campaign to have our Right to Strike Reinstated, the POA will shortly be distributing pre-printed postcards to all our members. The postcards contain a message to the Prime Minister urging him to Reinstate our Right to Strike. These postcards are addressed to the Prime Minister and will play a vital part in demonstrating our strength and unity on this issue read more

Support for “together march” Saturday 28th March – The POA have previously circulated information that we support the above demonstration, and I am now writing to you again to encourage our members to be aware of and, where appropriate, support the upcoming “Together March” taking place in London on Saturday, 28th March 2026. This National Rally brings together a broad coalition of trade unions, community organisations, campaign groups and public figures to stand in unity against the rise of far-right rhetoric, division and extremism within our society. This has the full backing of the TUC and GFTU, which we are affiliated to. The march promotes the core values of solidarity, inclusion and respect-principles which align with the ethos of the POA trade union and our profession and the diverse communities we serve. A significant number of high-profile attendees are expected, including senior trade union leaders, politicians, campaigners, solicitors, and cultural figures, reflecting the widespread concern across society about the issues being highlighted. The scale and visibility of this event underline the importance of collective action in defending democratic values and social cohesion. As POA members we work on the front line of a system that is directly impacted by social division and inequality. The POA recognises the importance of standing against hate and supporting initiatives that promote unity and mutual respect read more

Prison officers demand same treatment as MPs (6 Mar) – Prison Officers are demanding the same treatment as MPs when it comes to pay. This week The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) recommended MPs receive a 5% pay increase from April 2026, taking their salary to £98,599. IPSA chairman Richard Lloyd said the role of an MP had “evolved”, with parliamentarians “dealing with higher levels of complex casework, and abuse and intimidation”. It is expected that by the end of this Parliament an MPs salary will rise to £110,000 read more

The government must introduce a second employment rights bill says prison officer’s leaders (23 Feb) – The Union Leaders are calling on the UK Labour Government to bring in a 2nd Employment Rights Bill. The call comes just a few months after the UK Government’s flagship Employment Rights Bill passed into legislation. Whilst the Bill, which has been described as “the greatest improvement in workers’ rights in a generation”, will bring in a suite of positive changes, POA General Secretary, Steve Gillan believes another Bill is required to deliver fundamental rights for all workers. The POA’s key demand is for the 2nd bill to reinstate “The Right to Strike” for Prison Officers. In 1994 “The Right to Strike” for Prison Officers was removed by the Tory Government during the passage of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act. Subsequently, the Blair Government committed to reinstating “The Right to Strike” in England and Wales but failed to follow through on this pledge when in office. The Scottish Government reinstated the right in 2015 and not a single day has been lost to strike action since read more

Employment Rights Bill 2 (23 Feb) – POA Circular 62/2025 outlined the POA’s support for The Campaign for Trade Union Freedom and Strike Map’s call for an ‘Employment Rights Bill 2’. The Employment Rights Act was passed in December 2025. The act brings into law a number of commitments made by the Labour Party in its “New Deal for Working People”. However, the POA do not believe that the Act goes far enough. The attached document outlines our demand for an ‘Employment Rights Bill 2’. Please make all members aware of its content read more

NAPO

Meningitis Outbreak (KSS) – Your Safety Comes First (23 Mar) – The employer has issued a national communication/guidance on the meningitis outbreak in the KSS area to the region’s Prisons and AP premises and have added that it can also be issued to probation if the first line is removed. It does not provide probation-specific operational guidance, so again, probation managers and staff are expected to manage risk without clear systems, guidance, or protection. Please be assured, Napo is working urgently on a national and local basis to address this read more

Napo members resoundingly reject 2025-2026 Probation Pay Offer (25 Feb) – Our election scrutineers CIVICA have now provided the result of the indicative ballot that has been taking place between 4th to the 27th February 2026. With a hugely impressive turnout of 83.46% of voting members, 88.97% voted to reject the above offer with 11.03% voting to accept. The Probation Negotiating Committee is meeting this afternoon to determine our next steps, including moving as quickly as possible to ballot on industrial action. We will also be formally writing to the employer to notify them of the result, which we believe sends a strong signal about the anger and disappointment among our members in response to the current pay offer, and the manner it has been presented to the workforce by HMPPS. In our view the employer and Government must now urgently produce a significantly improved pay offer that properly demonstrates the value of Probation staff to the criminal justice system and our communities. The outcome of the ballots being held by UNISON and GMB/SCOOP will be known next week read more

BFAWU     

Spring Foodworker 2025 read more

Support the campaign to unionise Samworth Brothers – get organised, sign the petition read more     

Nautilus International

RFA officers vote for strike action (20 Feb) – Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) officers have delivered an emphatic ballot result, demonstrating immense strength of feeling over pay and conditions across the workforce. The statutory ballot achieved a 56% turnout, with members returning decisive majorities in favour of action:-

  • 88% voted YES to taking strike action 
  • 95% voted YES to taking industrial action short of strike 

Nautilus International said the result represents one of the largest and most significant RFA ballots ever conducted, both in scale and engagement. In this ballot, 32% more members were entitled to vote than in the previous RFA ballot, around 17% more officers actively participated, despite the challenges of returning postal ballots whilst at sea and on active operations. The union says this context is crucial to understanding the result and highlights the depth of concern across the service read more

NUJ   

NUJ responds to BBC World Service funding deal (20 Mar) – The NUJ has welcomed confirmation of a funding settlement for the BBC World Service – as part of a three-year deal – while cautioning that the union will need to assess its implications and calling on the government to secure its long-term future read more

NUJ condemns Israeli attacks on media workers in Lebanon (20 Mar) – The NUJ has joined the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and Union of Journalists of Lebanon (UJL) in denouncing Israeli airstrikes that have killed and injured journalists in Lebanon read more

STV staff vote overwhelmingly for industrial action (18 Mar) – Members of both the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Bectu at STV News have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action over a pay dispute in one of the first strike ballots to be held under the new Employment Rights Act. The NUJ ballot showed 84% in favour of strike action and 94% for action short of a strike on a turnout of 73.5%. A parallel ballot run by Bectu, who represent technical staff, showed 73% for strike action and 82% for action short of a strike on a turnout of 57% read more

NUJ responds to government report on AI and copyright (18 Mar) – The NUJ has welcomed news that the UK government no longer supports an opt-out exception to copyright for artificial intelligence training. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has today (18 March) published its report and impact assessment on the use of copyrighted work in the development of artificial intelligence read more

Equity

A 55% cut in funding by British councils threatens universal access to the arts (19 Mar) – New research finds local government arts funding has plummeted 55% across Britain since 2010 read more

Equity launches Senedd Culture is Work manifesto (18 Mar) – Darllenwch y dudalen hon yn Gymraeg/Read this page in Welsh. Ahead of the 2026 Senedd election, Equity is calling for Senedd candidates across Wales to recognise culture is work – and to treat it as essential infrastructure. The call comes as new research reveals that arts funding has fallen by 46% in Wales since 2010. The manifesto for Wales calls on candidates to sign up to five pledges aimed at investing in and bolstering culture. The pledges include embedding fair pay and conditions for workers and recognising them as skilled professionals in essential infrastructure. See the five pledges in full here  read more

Equity responds to Government decision to move away from ‘opt-out’ exception for AI training (18 Mar) – Equity, the performing arts and entertainment trade union, has welcomed the announcement that the Government is to roll back on the ‘opt-out’ exception to copyright for artificial intelligence training, saying it “is recognition that selling out the UK’s creative industries to benefit US tech companies would’ve been an act of national self-sabotage.” In the report and impact assessment on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence published jointly today by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and the Intellectual Property Office, it says the government “will not introduce reforms to copyright law until we are confident that they will meet our objectives for the economy and UK citizens.” Read more

Equity calls for Scottish Basic Income for Artists as new research reveals 18% drop in arts funding (18 Mar) – Equity is calling for Holyrood candidates to back a Scottish Basic Income for Artists (BIA) going into May’s elections, as new research reveals that arts funding has dropped by 18% in Scotland since 2010. Ahead of the Scottish parliament elections on 7 May 2026, we are calling on candidates to support a pilot of a Scottish Basic Income for Artists (BIA) and for Scotland to be “the leading nation in the UK” for a “fair and sustainable” creative industry. A recent pilot in the Republic of Ireland was so successful that it is now up and running as an ongoing scheme, benefitting creatives and the industry more widely read more

Musicians Union

Musicians Union (19 Mar) – MU General Secretary Raises AI Concerns with Prime Minister. The MU has welcomed the Government’s rethink on AI but has emphasised the importance of copyright reform to the Prime Minister. While the shift away from an opt-out system is positive, we continue to call for Government intervention to ensure musicians are fairly paid as AI licensing grows read more

Community

UK Steel Strategy – Statement (19 Mar) – Responding to the publication of the government’s UK Steel Strategy today, Community Union General Secretary Roy Rickhuss CBE said: “Since taking office in 2024, the Government has taken many decisive steps to support the steel industry and those who work within it. This Steel Strategy represents the culmination of these efforts…” read more

Community signs recognition agreement with Macmillan Cancer Support (18 Mar) – We are proud to announce that Community have officially signed a recognition agreement with Macmillan Cancer Support. This agreement is more than just a piece of paper — it is a legal gateway that gives Community members at Macmillan a voice and a seat at the negotiating table read more

Voluntary Recognition Agreement Signed at Johnson Matthey Swindon (18 Mar) – We are excited to announce that we have entered a voluntary recognition agreement at the Johnson Matthey Hydrogen Technologies site in Swindon. Effective from 1st April 2026, this partnership establishes a formal framework in which Community members can collectively bargain around policy and conditions read more

USDAW

City Council’s consultation on extended hours is an unwelcome distraction, say Usdaw & Retail NI (24 Mar) – Retail trade union Usdaw is disappointed that Belfast City Council is yet again consulting on extending Sunday trading hours, instead of engaging in an industrial strategy for the retail sector that involves local and national government, retailers, workers and their trade union, along with all key stakeholders working together. Usdaw will respond to the consultation, closing on 14 May, by re-emphasising the union’s emphatic ‘no’ to longer Sunday trading hours read more

Usdaw negotiates an above-inflation 5.1% increase for hourly-paid staff (18 Mar) – Following negotiations between retail trade union Usdaw and supermarket giant Tesco, the union has welcomed today’s announcement that staff pay will increase to £13.28 per hour from 29 March for hourly-paid staff. This above-inflation increase represents a pay increase of 43% over the last five years. The London Location Allowance will also increase to £1.27, equating to an hourly rate of £14.55 for staff within the M25 read more

Usdaw members vote overwhelmingly for strike action at the Morrisons Bridgwater distribution centre (4 Mar) – Retail distribution trade union Usdaw has balloted 100 drivers and transport clerical staff at Eddie Stobart Limited, who operate a Morrisons contract at the Bridgwater distribution centre in Somerset. Members voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action, in a dispute over the 2025 pay award, with an 83% yes vote. The ballot closed on 2 March and the turnout was 83% read more

Tetrosyl recognition dispute (6 Feb) – Usdaw applies for a statutory agreement after the Rochdale based company fails to enter into talks. Usdaw is the trade union for staff working at car care products manufacturer Tetrosyl and Tetrosyl Express based in Rochdale. The union has been seeking talks with the company about a recognition agreement since late last year. Management has failed to engage, which has forced Usdaw to use the statutory process by applying to the Central Arbitration Committee read more

UVW   

From Inequality to Recognition: 500 NHS Workers Win Collective Agreement (19 Mar) – “This means everything to us. It wasn’t easy, but now we finally have a voice — we’re no longer being pushed aside or ignored. We’re incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved together” – Nassaia Nkusi, Cleaner supervisor, at St Helier Hospital. More than 500 cleaners, porters and catering staff at St Helier and Epsom Hospitals have won a landmark collective agreement through their union, United Voices of the World (UVW), marking a major step forward in their fight for dignity and equality at work read more

Solidarity Financial Appeal: UVW’s office was targeted in a break-in! – in January 2025, laptops, essential equipment and other valuables worth several thousands of pounds were stolen, disrupting critical support for low-paid, migrant and precarious workers. This won’t stop our fight for justice. The theft comes as UVW leads critical campaigns with hundreds of workers taking strike action across London. Please support UVW during this critical time. Help replace stolen equipment and ensure campaigns for dignity and equality continue. Every donation makes a difference. Donate now: https://www.uvwunion.org.uk/donate. Read more on UVW Facebook page   

SIPTU (Ireland)   

SIPTU welcomes decision to offer contracts to graduate paramedics (11 Mar) – SIPTU representatives have welcomed a resolution of a dispute affecting 70 graduate paramedics who will now be offered permanent contracts in the National Ambulance Service. This dispute was concluded following engagement between unions and HSE management yesterday (10th March) read more

SIPTU seeks urgent North Cork Creameries meeting on jobs threat (10 Mar) – SIPTU representatives are seeking an urgent meeting with senior management at North Cork Creameries, following an announcement last week that the company is proposing to enter a redundancy process which could result in significant job losses at its plant in Kanturk, County Cork read more

SIPTU members in Dublin Home Care provider vote for strike action (9 Mar) – SIPTU members working in Blanchardstown and Inner City Home Care have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action over pay inequality read more

Nationwide Health Care Assistants’ strikes suspended (19 Feb) – SIPTU has suspended all planned Health Care Assistant (HCA) strikes in the Northwest, West and South regions following agreement with the HSE on key issues regarding underpayments, rostering and working conditions for these critical frontline staff. Strike action, which was due to commence over four days in counties Cork, Limerick, Kerry, Clare and Donegal, will not take place. The deal, reached with the assistance of the Workplace Relations Commission, resolves long-standing issues for SIPTU HCA members in the HSE Home Support Service, resulting from their employer violating national agreements on terms and conditions read more

  

Other news     

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – adapted by Neil Gore from the book by Robert Tressell, directed by Louise Townsend details

  • Running time/interval – Act 1 40 min Act 2 30 min 20 min interval
  • Age suitability – 11 plus

TOUR DATES FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS:-

Mar 19 – 7.30pm – The Casa, Liverpool SOLD OUT

Mar 20 – 7.30pm – Horse + Bamboo Theatre, Rossendale

Mar 21 – 7.30pm – Thornbury Methodist Church and Hall Bristol

Mar 25 – 7.30pm – Redhills, Durham Miners Hall

Mar 27 – 7.30pm – The Ironworks Brighton BN1 4GD

Mar 28 – 7.30pm – Kings Heath Community Centre, Birmingham

General Strike Centenary & The Cramlington Train Wreckers 2026 – As you know, this is a hugely important year for working history (centenary of the General Strike) .Following the success of The Cramlington Train Wreckers last November (4,000 people attended 7 venues)  it is transferring to the 1200-seat Newcastle Theatre Royal next July. We are looking to touring it next year but would like feedback from unions re support. Can you circulate it among your affiliates, please? We also have an event at Glasshouse in May to mark the first full day of  the centenary of the General Strike.

We are using both events to encourage a new layer of (young) trade union activists. It is an opportunity to draw in people We had a tremendous intervention in at Durham Miners’ Gala over the weekend. Any support would be appreciated.

The Cramlington Train Wreckers is transferring to Newcastle Theatre Royal after a sell out tour at 7 North East venues (4,000 attended!) last November.

www.cramlingtontrainwreckers.co.uk

www.wisecrackproductions.co.uk

www.worbella.co.uk

Alan Hardman ‘Need not Greed’ – Alan Hardman’s razor-sharp political cartoons collected for the first time. Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the Miners’ Strike, Need Not Greed is a career-spanning collection of visual art by one of Britain’s greatest unsung political cartoonists. Alongside Alan Hardman’s essential work, the book also includes a contribution from former President of the National Union of Mineworkers, Arthur Scargill, as well as a foreword by Jeremy Corbyn order a copy – £45 each   

Affiliate with STAMMA – at this year’s NSSN Conference, Gary Clark retired CWU Royal Mail rep and a member of the NSSN Steering Committee spoke about STAMMA. STAMMA’s Employment Support Service helps people who stammer as well as those who don’t around issues related to stammering in the workplace. Union branches and regions can affiliate with STAMMA to access a range of services and support at a reduced rate.    

  • £75 for branches and regions    
  • £125 for national unions with under 400,000 members    
  • £200 for national unions with 400,000+ members    

STAMMA website    

Sign this petition: To the Right Honourable Steve Barclay, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and The Right Honourable Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister – Make toxic landfills safe – Support ‘Zane’s Law’!  Find out more about this campaign here   

From Strike Map – Our final instalment of the ‘Industrial Unionism’ series with Manifesto Press is here. Building on this success of our other pamphlets- which has sold over 2,000 copies, our next pamphlet in our series is the infamous ‘A Manual of Industrial Unionism’ by William Z Foster. Click the button here to pre-order your copy for you and your organisation   

     

Stop the attack on Gaza    

Many NSSN supporters have joined marches and protests against the escalation of violence in the Middle East, particularly the invasion and bombardment of Gaza by the Israeli government.       

See Stop the War website for info on protests.

A number of unions have issued statements on the situation in the Middle East, including: the TUC, FBU, RMT, NEU, Unite, Unison, PCS, ASLEF, TSSA, UCU, EIS, USDAW, BFAWU, CWU, Equity, BMA, NUJ, MU, UVW, GMB, SOR, RCM, RCN, IWGB, Prospect, CSP, NAPO, INTO (Ireland), SIPTU (Ireland) and Mandate (Ireland)     

Oppose Trump’s attack on Venezuela

We oppose Trump’s brutal imperialist assault on Venezuela. We send solidarity greetings to the Venezuelan people, and support the protests taking place.

Oppose blacklisting & union victimisation

Spycops inquiry condemned as “fundamentally flawed” in statement by blacklisted workers – The SpyCops public inquiry that restarts evidence hearings this week is described as “fundamentally flawed” by the Blacklist Support Group (BSG). The comments appear in an opening statement for the inquiry’s Tranche 3 hearings. The statement opens with a section stating:

“Undercover police officers infiltrated and spied on trade unions. SDS reported on union meetings, union activists, union campaigns, and industrial disputes. For decades, police and security service records were used to blacklist trade union and leftwing political activists from employment. Through official and unofficial routes, the police intelligence was disseminated to government departments, major private sector employers and the unlawful blacklisting bodies; the Economic League and the Consulting Association”. The statement goes onto catalogue 10 years of missed opportunities and broken promises in relation to blacklisting, including highlighting how intelligence gathered by undercover police is used to provide state organised vetting for employers known as ‘List X companies’. One section of the statement reads: “The failure to fully investigate blacklisting is either a remarkable lack of curiosity, or an intentional self-imposed restriction of the Inquiry’s terms of reference. Either way it is against the public interest and is a failure to fulfil the Inquiry’s terms of reference as laid out by Parliament”. 

BSG’s opening statement is published on the inquiry’s website as part of the submission by Imran Khan KC, who also represents Baroness Doreen Lawrence OBE, Suresh Grover and the Monitoring Group. Full statement in link below – BSG section starts at page 35.

https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/T3P1-Opening-Statement-Imran-Khan-Partners.pdf

Opening statement to the Undercover Policing Inquiry on behalf of:

Lois Austin, Richard Chessum, ‘Mary’, Dave Nellist, Hannah Sell, Youth against Racism in Europe read here

Blacklist Support Group

book: http://newint.org/books/politics/blacklisted-secret-war/

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNcgrNs6pB8

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/blacklistSG/

blog: www.hazards.org/blacklistblog

   

        

Keep an eye out for other Facebook and social media groups and pages that are being created. You can catch up on disputes at Strike Map UK. Also, check out Organise Now! – Support for new worker organising.      

     

International     

Turkey: Türkmen Remanded in Custody – Mehmet Türkmen, the General President of BİRTEK-SEN, who was detained yesterday because of a speech he gave during the protest of Sırma Carpet workers who took action for their rights, has been remanded in custody read more on the website of Solidarity with the People of Turkey

Nigeria: A Call for Solidarity – Drop Trumped-Up Charges against Soweto and Dele Frank Now! On March 11, 2026, Hassan Taiwo Soweto, member of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) and spokesperson of #EndBadGovernance Movement Lagos, and Dele Frank (Arole Fela) are expected to appear before a magistrate court in Yaba, Lagos for the commencement of a sham trial on the trumped-up charges preferred against them by the Lagos State Police Command over their participation in a peaceful protest read more, including model letter of protest. Send copies of letters of protest to the Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) is [email protected]

  • Lobby of the Nigerian High Commission, 9 Northumberland Avenue, London WC2N 5BX, on Wednesday 11th March at 5:30pm

USA: NSSN stands with workers, their unions and communities against ICE

We send our solidarity to the family of nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti who was killed in Minneapolis on 24th January. His union American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) has issued this statement.

We also send our support and solidarity to all those who took part in the mass strike and shutdown in Minneapolis last Friday and have protested there and across the USA.

NSSN Chair Rob Williams sent this message of support

USA: Support the Starbucks strike – read more on Starbucks Workers United website and follow @SBWorkersUnited on X/Twitter

   

   

Diary      

  • 2026 NSSN Conference will be on Saturday 27th June 11am-4.30pm
  • NSSN lobby of TUC Congress will be from 1pm on Sunday 13th September in Brighton

  

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