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Trade unions have urged Stormont to agree a fair budget or face an intensifying programme of industrial action

Unions urge Stormont to agree fair budget or face more industrial action

The skeleton of a Glider bus which was set on fire by protesters last night on the Newtownards Road in east Belfast

Translink to suspend all bus and rail services due to 'expected protests'

The Ulster University York Street Campus in Belfast. Stormont Economy Minister Caoimhe Archibald has defended not raising university fees in Northern Ireland as Ulster University faces redundancies

Letter: Minister must explain plan for higher education

The NASUWT teaching union was accused of ‘blindly’ supporting the Palestinian cause

Letter: Teaching union right to criticise bombing of schools

Shipbuilders at Navantia UK yards, including Harland & Wolff Belfast and Appledore in Devon, have been reassured by chief executive Donato Martínez's promise of 600,000 additional UK build hours, according to the GMB union. Credit Navantia

Navantia reassures H&W Belfast workers over shipbuilding schedule shift

Non-teaching education staff on strike outside Harberton School in south Belfast on Tuesday 21 May. Trade unions say they are poised to escalate industrial action by educational support workers, warning of “huge disruption” in September - including a possible full week of strike action. Photo by Jonathan Porter/Press Eye

Unions warn of ‘huge disruption’ to schools in September

Unison is one of the unions involved

Non-teaching staff gearing up for possible industrial action

Health minister Robin Swann said that disruption caused by a by junior doctors' strike will be 'significant'

Junior doctors’ strike ‘will lead to thousands of missed appointments’

Trade unions have warned that cuts imposed by Secretary of State Chris Heaton Harris (pictured) may result in "unprecedented" strike action which would bring Northern Ireland public transport to a standstill.
Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Unions blame Heaton Harris for threat of public transport strike

Trade unions have called for Westminster to write off Stormont's "crippling" budget overspend debt

Trade Unions call for 'crippling' Stormont debt to be written off

The trial will see passengers pay more or less depending on how busy a service is Photo by Dan Dennison/Getty Images)

Full List of train ticket office closures, is your area affected?

Now ministers accept that home-working since Covid lockdowns has shown that the bulk of workers can be trusted to get on with the job wherever they, and the next step is To recognise that many people find work challenging

Northern Ireland set to abolish any link between getting paid and doing work

Teachers are among just one of the many professions striking

Who is striking and when in 2023?

University staff go on strike today with more on the way as pay and pension dispute rages on (Photo by Martin Pope/Getty Images)

University staff go on strike over pay and pension dispute

RMT general secretary Mick Lynch (centre) on an RMT picket line during January’s strike (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Breaking Who is on strike today? Teachers & junior doctors included

Rail workers will stage a series of fresh strikes in March and April (Photo: Getty Images)

Strike action taking place in March 2023 in the UK - including NEU
Several trade unions are set to carry out industrial action for better pay and working conditions throughout May
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Freight lorries at Larne port on February 27, 2023

Trade unions of Windsor Framework: The main lesson is that negotiations work

Representatives of National Education Union (NEU), Communication Workers Union (CWU) and the public-service union Unison join a rally by the University and College Union (UCU).

UK mass strike will see half a million workers walk out today

Who is striking in February 2023? Full list of all industrial action

Members of health trade unions take part in a protest outside the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast in August, to demand a pay increase to help protect workers from the cost-of-living crisis. Picture date: Wednesday August 24, 2022

Trade unions discuss NI ‘days of action’ link-up across sectors

Unison members taking part in a protest outside the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast in August. PA Photo. Photo by Niall Carson/PA Wire

Picket line locations announced for Northern Ireland health strike on Monday

Unison members during a protest outside the Royal Victoria Hospital

Trade unions say Northern Ireland pay award doesn't resolve dispute

Empty classroom

Teaching unions react with fury to £100 million education budget cut plans

Organiser and host of one of the rally events Taj Ali

Enough is Enough Rally: what is happening on October 1

Members of Health trade unions take part in a protest outside the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, to demand a pay increase to help protect workers from the cost-of-living crisis. Picture date: Wednesday August 24, 2022.

NIPSA preparing to ballot health staff

The BMA has said it will consider what ‘action’ is available to oppose a pay recommendation

GPs could cut hours and consultants refuse extra work over 'too low' pay

Members of the Royal College of Nursing take part in a protest outside the Mater Hospital in Belfast, to demand a pay increase to help protect workers from the cost-of-living crisis. Picture date: Wednesday August 24, 2022.

NI health workers may return to picket line in dispute over pay, unions claim
Trade unions have warned that health workers in Northern Ireland could be forced to strike once again because of a deepening row over pay.
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Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 25th June 2022 -

Union members pictured at a rally at Stormont, Belfast calling on Westminster to provide support to working families and for a return of a NI Executive to roll out the necessary policies and actions to seek to address this cost of living crisis.

The rally was organised by trade unions NIC and ICTU.

Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Trade Unions join to hold cost of living protest at Stormont

People at Dublin Airport where bosses were told to come up with solutions to resolve the lengthy delays faced by passengers by Tuesday morning. Picture date: Tuesday May 31, 2022.

Passengers ‘need instant action’ to fix airports chaos

Letter to the editor

It’s nationalist Brit-bashing that really fuels sectarianism – not Brexiteers

PressEye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 11th June 2018

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Coronavirus outbreak at second NI hospital, several medical staff at Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry have been forced to self isolate.

Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry.

Picture: Philip Magowan / PressEye

Unions oppose moving some A&E services north

Furloughed staff say a restaurant chain asked for 10% of their wages - and threatened redundancy if they didn’t agree (Photo: Shutterstock)

Furloughed staff say a restaurant chain asked for 10% of their wages - and threa...

Larne port.

Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Larne port council staff removal inquiry motion falls

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Vaccine priority for special school teachers 'conclusion' expected on Thursday

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Queen’s University in Belfast's new policy is similar to other universities, where extremist plans have been implemented

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Newry, Mourne and Down council sign

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An Amnesty International protest in Belfast in 2008, which accused George Bush of ripping up international law over the use of Guantanamo Bay naval facility to house suspected jihadists and enemy combatants

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The small Helen's Bay station is usually unmanned

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£6.5 million boost for nursing homes in Covid-19 battle

Royal College of Nursing members on a picket line at Belfast City Hospital last month

Health unions accept Robin Swann offer to end industrial action

Education Authority chief: Schools can do no more to tackle funding crisis

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Health Workers pictured at todays picket line at the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald after Unions failed to get the required pay increase from Health officials

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Health bosses forced to apologise again as more appointments axed

(L-R) Buta Atwal, Chief Executive at Wrightbus; Jo Bamford, Executive Chairman at Wrightbus; Jon Harman, Head of Fleet at First Group UK Bus and John McLeister, Sales and Business Development Director at Wrightbus.

First Wrightbus vehicles delivered under new ownership

(L-R) Buta Atwal, Chief Executive at Wrightbus; Jo Bamford, Executive Chairman at Wrightbus; Jon Harman, Head of Fleet at First Group UK Bus and John McLeister, Sales and Business Development Director at Wrightbus.

First Wrightbus vehicles delivered under new ownership

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Bombardier to sell Belfast aerostructures business

Last May in Belfast Jeremy Corbyn stated that the Labour Party would be neutral in the event of a border poll. "The trade unionis should be the same"

Trade unions should be neutral on delicate constitutional matters such as the bo...

Woman of Britain return to work in factories due to the lack of manpower after the war. Women workers in the packing department of Twiggs (Northern) Ltd a new pram factory at Pallion Trading state, Sunderland.

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