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Thousands of non-teaching staff go on strike. Classroom assistants, bus drivers, catering staff, cleaners and other support workers are walked out at hundreds of schools.

Education workers strike: ‘Everything is going up – except our pay’

Unite the Union members at the picket line at St. Gerard's School in Belfast on Wednesday. Significant disruption to school transport is expected on Wednesday as four unions go on strike today. Almost 800 school support staff with Unite - the majority transport workers - are walking out as part of an ongoing dispute over a pay and grading review. On Thursday school staff from Unison, GMB and Nipsa will join the strike.
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‘Only Chris Heaton-Harris can resolve school strikes’

A mural on the old Unite building in central Belfast

Unite reveals plans for a two-day education strike mid-month in pay dispute

More than 460,000 people working for 14,000 employers who pay the rate will receive a wage rise.

Cost of Living: Real Living Wage to rise 10% amid cost-of-living crisis

School support workers, cleaning staff and janitors are currently on strike in Scotland as the Unison union remains locked in a pay dispute with education chiefs. (Credit: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Scottish school support staff stage strike in pay dispute

Carmel Gates addressed crowds of union members at City Hall. Photo: Claudia Savage/PA Wire

Strikes will get “bigger and better” until demands are met, union leader says

Physio Staff at the RVH as Thousands of health and social care workers in Northern Ireland have begun a 48-hour strike as part of a pay dispute.

Thousands of Unison, Unite and Nipsa members strike in pay dispute - 21 pictures

Education Authority have called for more investment in the sector as trade union groups ballot on potential industrial action

Sustained investment for education is needed, says Education Authority

The ballot closes on Thursday, September 21 as education workers in Northern Ireland vote whether or not to take industrial action over pay

Unison members in schools across NI balloting for industrial action

Hundreds of health workers are to launch a fresh strike in a dispute over pay

Unison health service members in Northern Ireland to strike over pay

Gerry Murphy, the assistant general secretary of Irish Congress of Trade Unions.

Union leader says all-Ireland forum would have been helpful during pandemic

Education and health sector workers attending a rally Belfast earlier this year. A number of unions have today stated that further industrial action is likely this year if public sector pay awards for workers in England are not matched in Northern Ireland

NI public sector staff angry over growing pay gap with rest of UK, unions warn

Unions protest outside NIO headquarters at Erskine House in Belfast over pay. Pic: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Threat of 'serious and prolonged' industrial action over public sector pay

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

Rita Devlin, NI director of the Royal College of Nursing

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

International Day of the Midwife falls on Friday, 5 May in 202

Happy International Day of the Midwife 2023: How to get involved
Today marks the 21st International Day of the Midwife - Royal College of Midwives tips on how to get involved.

Strike action was taken last week over the issue, but demonstrations planned for Monday were called off after talks were set up in Belfast with Mr Heaton-Harris.

Talks between NI health unions and Chris Heaton-Harris end without resolution

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

Healthcare workers protest at City Hall Belfast

Healthcare workers across Northern Ireland stage strike in pay dispute

NI Ambulance Service warning as strike action returns on Friday

Ambulance availability warning as health strike resumes on Friday

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

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

Thousands of workers in the education and health sectors in Northern Ireland take part in strike on Tuesday.

STRIKES: Thousands of teachers take action over pay and conditions

A rally at Stormont in March last year by members of the Unite trade union.
Picture By: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press.

Rallies across NI in support of strike by teachers and health workers

The logos of the striking unions

Day of disruption looms for NI as unions merge strike actions together

Unison members with banners targeting Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Chris Heaton-Harris during an earlier strike

Health union’s ‘disbelief’ at Heaton-Harris ‘refusal’ to meet ahead of strike

Striking Unison members in Northern Ireland with a banner urging Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris to 'pay up'

Heaton-Harris continues to point health unions to Stormont

More than 25,000 healthcare staff in Northern Ireland have held a one-day strike as part of a pay dispute.

NI health service rocked by biggest strike yet
The Northern Ireland health service has been rocked by delayed ambulance responses and cancelled hospital appointments following one of the Northern Ireland health service's largest ever strikes.

Healthcare Workers pictured at Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.

Health strike impact: Trusts say 'significant' number of appointments cancelled

The move from Unite, Unison and Nipsa members, will involve some nurses, ambulance and hospital support staff.

This is what the 25,000 person strike by ambulance staff and nurses looks like

John Wray, support services worker at Altnagelvin Hospital

Video: NI health workers explain why they're on strike from picket line

Ambulance service

‘Life-threatening’ calls only for ambulances during strike action

The entrance to the Royal Victoria Hospital A&E Department in west Belfast. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Ambulance workers to respond only to high priority calls in strike

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.

Carers and social workers to refuse use of vehicles in industrial action today

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

Carmel Gates, NIPSA General Secretary, at a picket line during a 24 hour strike outside the Nightingale hospital at the Belfast City hospitals, Northern Ireland. Monday December 12, 2022.

New strike dates for some NI health workers revealed

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

Unions to resume industrial action within weeks

Morning View

Civil servants should not be pushed to politics

List of all the strikes taking place in the lead up to Christmas 2022

A group of fraudsters have been posing as ambulance staff and knocking on doors asking for financial support ahead of upcoming industrial action.

Fraudsters posing as ambulance staff seen asking for donations

Health sector workers from three of Northern Ireland's biggest unions are taking part in a strike on Monday, in a dispute over pay and conditions.

Health workers dispute: Action short of strike to continue

Patricia McKeown speaking at a Unison public meeting. (1504PG60)

NI health strikes likely in January, suggests union boss

'There's not enough pay and we're losing staff all the time', warn nurses

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

Unite the Union flags at a picket line. Credit: Presseye/Stephen Hamilton

Unite Northern Ireland health service workers balloted on possible strike action

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Pay must keep pace with prices over time but excessive rises worsen inflation

Pacemaker Press 05/12/22
Healthcare workers from two of Northern Ireland's biggest unions have begun industrial action in a dispute about pay.
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Health unions to co-ordinate industrial action in Northern Ireland

Nurses working at the nurses station.

Unions to begin industrial action in dispute over pay for healthcare staff

NHS workers from Unite, Unison, NIPSA, BMA and RCN hold a protest outside the Royal Victoria Hospital in west Belfast over ongoing pay issues.

Nursing services listed which are exempt from strike action

Royal Mail workers on strike at Tomb Street, Belfast on Wednesday, November 30, 2022. Photo by Jonathan Porter / PressEye

Industrial unrest continues as both posties and university lecturers strike

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

NI health trusts insist planning ongoing for looming industrial action

Nurses from Unison and the RCN on strike at the Mater Hospital in Belfast in December 2019

Unison announce industrial action in NI health service to begin next week

Strike ballots from two more Northern Ireland health unions to close tomorrow

Emergency Department at the Antrim Area Hospital in Northern Ireland which closed its doors to new admissions on Saturday night because conditions had become unsafe, a health chief has said. Jennifer Welsh, chief executive at the Northern Health Trust, said the situation in the emergency department (ED) at hospital on Monday remained "extremely pressured". Picture date: Monday November 14 2022.

Northern Ireland hospital system ‘on life support’, nurses’ union warns

The Royal College of Nursing will announce whether its members have voted in favour of the first UK-wide strike by nurses

NI health workers vote to strike in dispute over pay and staffing levels