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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

Teachers' unions are to poll their members over summer, asking them to vote on industrial action. Photo: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

Teachers to vote on industrial action: 'Every avenue exhausted', say unions

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt confirmed this week that pay parity with NHS workers in England has been restored. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Unions say NHS pay parity should never have been broken

Stores in Belfast's Victoria Square could be among those allowed to open on Sunday mornings. Photo: Victoria Square Shopping Centre

Belfast Sunday morning shop trial slammed by unions and industry body

One in four teachers say they experience pupil violence at least once a term

Teachers declare ‘pupil behaviour emergency’ - here's how bad it is

Hollywood is feeling the after effects of the victory of the 2023 writers’ and actors’ strikes, which were sold as a noble fight against studio greed – but it wasn’t a Hollywood underdog story

Phelim McAleer: Costly union rules are helping to kill off LA’s film industry

Three of Northern Ireland's biggest teaching unions have voted in favour of industrial action

Why NI teachers voted to strike, and what industrial action could mean

Education Minister Paul Givan said school support staff would now receive a “significant investment in pay”

Education minister welcomes end of pay dispute by school support workers

Striking Unite the union education workers protesting at the gates of the Department of Education Northern Ireland at Rathgael House in Bangor in May 2024. They have now voted to accept a government pay offer.

Second union accepts pay offer for education support staff

The Nipsa trade union is to ballot PSNI civilian staff on potential industrial action. Photo: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

School support staff in NI to vote on backdated pay rise and one-off lump sum

Unions are calling on Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris to release the funding package now that the has prepared to meet their pay demands. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Unions call on Heaton-Harris to release pay rise in light of DUP progress

Public sector workers walk from the picket line at the Royal Victoria Hospital to a rally at Belfast City Hall, as an estimated 150,000 workers take part in walkouts over pay across Northern Ireland.

Unions warn of escalating action as thousands strike across Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland has been bracing itself for what public sector unions have described as industrial action on an “unprecedented” scale. An estimated 170,000 public servants in 15 trade unions across many sectors including health, education and civil servants are set to take part in what is expected to be the largest strike seen in Northern Ireland in recent history.

Esmond Birnie: The question is, what sort of public sector do we want?

Pacemaker Press Belfast 17-01-2024: Members of two unions which operate gritters on Northern Ireland roads will be taking week-long strike action from Thursday. The Department of Infrastructure has warned people to use 'extreme caution' on the roads

Roughly 8.5% of entire Northern Irish population out on strike today

Nurses protesting over wages and working conditions at Stormont last year. Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) have announced strike action on January 18, joining other unions in a day of action

Largest nursing union in Northern Ireland joins day of industrial action

Translink staff on the picket line in Crumlin as 24-hour strike that got under way at midnight is expected to cause extensive disruption across the public transport network on Friday. Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Ulster at a standstill: Bus and train drivers striking for 24 hours
The first province-wide public transport strike in eight years is set to cause havoc among businesses and schools on Friday, with buses and trains across NI grinding to a halt.
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Schools across England will face major disruption today as teachers strike over pay (Photo: Getty Images)

Breaking Back to school - teachers strikes finally over

Health worker unions have criticised Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris for “silence” over their requested pay increase.

Unions criticise Heaton-Harris over ‘silence’ on pay increases

Virgin Media will axe hundreds of jobs

Virgin Media O2 set to axe hundreds of jobs despite soaring revenues

Unite the union said its members will no longer strike following an improved pay offer from the employers. (Photo by Guy Smallman/Getty images)

Unite calls off 31-day Heathrow Airport strike after last-minute offer

Rita Devlin, NI director of the Royal College of Nursing

Cut in NI student nursing places 'will do irreparable damage to patient care'

Breaking Members of Unite have rejected the Government’s pay offer

Unions expect huge response to strike call from teachers in Northern Ireland

Unions expect huge response from Northern Ireland teachers to strike call

NASUWT members during a previous teachers' strike

Teachers' strike: trade unions expect massive response from teaching staff

Members of the Unison and Nipsa unions, including representatives from the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) protest outside Belfast City Hall, in an ongoing row over pay and conditions. Picture date: Friday March 31, 2023.

Northern Ireland healthcare workers pause strike action after talks announced

Fiona Bruce on the set of Question Time. Question Time is returning to TV screens - days after the pay of its host Fiona Bruce was revealed. The flagship BBC One political show will be back Thursday with a slightly larger virtual audience than in the last series.

Full panel line-up for BBC Question Time in Bristol

April will see strike action affect everything from rail service to civil and public services.

Full list of strikes coming up in April 2023
This month will see strikes from several unions including RMT and PCS, with disruptions to civil service, rail service and more - here are all the strike dates planned in April
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Ruth Perry was the headteacher at Caversham Primary School (Photo: Brighter Futures for Children)

Ofsted defends school inspections despite backlash

Breaking King Charles III and Queen Consort’s state trip to France cancelled

A French gendarme stands next to smoke during a demonstration as part of a national day of strikes and protests, a week after the French government pushed a pensions reform through parliament without a vote, using the article 49.3 of the constitution, in Nantes, western France, on March 23, 2023

Breaking French unions call for more strikes during King Charles III’s visit

Teachers are among just one of the many professions striking

Who is striking and when in 2023?

Passport Office workers are set to strike over pay and working conditions which unions warn will have a “significant impact” ahead of summer holidays.

Breaking Summer holiday travel warning as Passport Office set to strike

Nursing strikes 2023: Royal College of Nursing, the GMB & Unison back new pay offer - but it’s not over yet

Breaking Nursing strikes 2023: Unions back pay offer - but it’s not over yet

NHS physiotherapists take part in a strike outside of St Thomas’ Hospital on January. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Breaking NHS unions and government reach pay offer deal

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

Members of French unions went on strike

Travel advice to France issued after massive strike announcement

Members of the Fire Brigades Union (Photo: Fire Brigades Union)

Firefighters cancel strike as new pay deal agreed

Warning over future of UK steelmaking as British Steel cut 260 jobs

Nipsa members during a previous period of industrial action, in July 2019
Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Over 16,000 NI civil servants begin voting on strike action

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UK Border Force to strike at major ports during February half term

Homer Simpson after going on strike

The Simpsons' Homer goes on strike in Walk Out Wednesday 'coincidence'

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

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Unions submit pay claim for 12.7% rise on behalf of 1.4 million council workers

21st March 2022
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Unions submit pay claim for 12.7% rise on behalf of 1.4 million council workers

Unison, the GMB and Unite say a “significant” award is vital after years of local authority spending cuts and pay restraint

Unions submit pay claim for 12.7% rise on behalf of 1.4 million council workers

Members of the Fire Brigades Union (Photo: Fire Brigades Union)

UK firefighters’ strike 2023: everything you need to know

Aslef is one of four unions striking on 1 February

TUC organise ‘Right to Strike Day’ on February 1

Press Eye - Belfast - 21st September 2021
Ambulance service staff in Northern Ireland are due to take part in the strike on January 26, General view of the entrance tot he Royal Victoria Hospital A&E Department in west Belfast.

Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

NI braced for biggest health strike yet next week

Train drivers from Aslef and RMT announce two strike dates in February.

Train drivers announce two new strike dates if February

Mick Whelan, the General Secretary of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) arrives to attend a Commons Select Committee on rail strikes at Portcullis House.

Railway union boss hints at ‘more strikes’ in 2023

Pacemaker Press 26/07/2019 Northern Ireland civil servants with the Nipsa union during a previous industrial dispute.
Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Unions explore ‘coordinated’ industrial action in Northern Ireland civil service

National ambulance and NHS trade unions have announced a day of strike action to take place tomorrow.

NHS advise when to use 999 as ambulance driver strikes begin today

Nurses and NHS staff pictured at the City Hospital, south Belfast, during recent strike action.

Unions to resume industrial action within weeks

New TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak at TUC Congress House in London. He officially takes up the post in January from Frances O'Grady. Picture date: Wednesday December 21, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story INDUSTRY TUC. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Strikes will continue in 2023 unless government prepared for pay talk

Strikers at Lagan Valley hospital on December 15, 2022

Grim tidings from top NHS figure on effect strikes will have on already-creaking...

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