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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

A Translink Metro bus in Belfast City centre. All three public transport unions are to strike over pay this Friday.

Unlikely to be any buses or trains running in NI on Friday

Sarah Martin from Newtownabbey says that her son Ethan, 4, depends heavily on regular routine and becomes very challenging when school is cancelled.

School strike to hit special needs children worst, says mother

The Presbyterian Church in Ireland has published its submission to the public consultation on the Secretary of State Chris Heaton Harris' plans for compulsory abortion education in NI schools.
Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Business appeals to Heaton-Harris on Christmas public transport strike

The education of almost 60,000 children across NI will suffer significant disruption this Friday when all three public transport unions go on strike.
Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Transport strike to impact 60,000 pupils across NI this week

Unite the union workers' protest Stormont in March 2022. Photo: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press.

Industrial action by school support workers to coincide public transport strike

The schooling of almost 60,000 children across NI could be "significantly disrupted" after all three public transport unions prepare to strike in the run up to Christmas. Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Transport strike to hit 60k pupils before Christmas

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’

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

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

Commuters wait at a bus stop outside a branch of Barclays in London.

Barclays bank to axe 450 jobs across the business

London Gatwick Airport will be hit by eight days of strikes this summer - Credit: Adobe

Gatwick Airport to be hit by strikes for eight days of summer holidays

In a first for the construction sector in Northern Ireland, employer and employee representatives are publishing a joint Industry Skills Review – in an event at Parliament Buildings - which brings forward a series of recommendations to deal with the skills challenge. For the last year, the Construction Employers Federation has been working with the Unite and GMB Unions in a company called Construction Industry Futures, commissioning EY to review the local construction market and bring forward a series of recommendations for talent intervention locally

Blueprint is launched to address the skills shortage in NI's construction sector

Unite the union says that schools across Northern Ireland are likely to experience significant disruption during the week long strike.

Unite's week long strike to impact on schools

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
Unite the union said its members will no longer strike following an improved pay offer from the employers.

Heathrow Airport security officers are set to strike for 31 days in the latest wave of industrial action. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Heathrow Airport security officers to strike for 31 days this summer

Striking workers from Dunmurry's Survitec were part of a delegation from Unite the Union which met with Belfast City Council

Striking workers attend first meeting of newly-elected Belfast City Council

Workers at the Coca Cola plant in Wakefield are set to go on strike for 14 days in June. (Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Coca Cola plant workers announce 14-day strike

Kevin McAdam, lead officer for health in Unite the union, says news that NHS workers will get no pay rise this year leaves them with no option but to prepare for strike action.
Unite is the largest trade union in Northern Ireland with more than 4,000 members in the Health and Social Care Trusts and the NI Ambulance Service.
Picture by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Union says 'no option but strike' after NHS zero pay award news

US Special Envoy to the North for Economic Affairs Joe Kennedy III during a visit to Seagate last month

Over 100 proposed Seagate job losses is a ‘sore blow’ for workers

Strike will continue until close to midnight today May 1.

Nurses strike continues: Major disruption for NHS services in England

General secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) Mick Lynch addresses the crowd at the May Day trade union rally in Belfast.

Mick Lynch praises unions in Northern Ireland over recent strike action

Members of Unite have rejected the Government’s pay offer

NIPSA Branch 47 members, of the Department of Justice, on strike outside Laganside Court. The unions involved include the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (Nipsa) the civil servants union, along with members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the National Union of General and Municipal Workers (GMB), Unite and all the teachers' unions.Picture by Phil Magowan / Press Eye

NI teachers and civil servants involved in biggest industrial action in a decade

Security officers at Heathrow airport are set to walk out for a further eight days over a pay dispute in May, Unite has announced. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Security officers at Heathrow airport to walk out for further 8 days

A sign indicating the start of the security queue during a strike by security workers at London Heathrow Airport in London, UK, on Friday, March 31, 2023. IAG SAsÂ British AirwaysÂ is set to scrap 320 flights during the Easter week as security workers strike for 10-days over pay. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

8 tips to get through security quicker despite airport strikes
This is how you can get through airport security at Heathrow quicker despite the strike action by security guards.

British Airways will cancel around 32 flights per day to and from Heathrow over the Easter weekend (Photo: Getty Images)

Heathrow security staff start 10-day strike affecting Easter travels

North Ronaldsay Lighthouse in the Orkney Islands is one of the 208 lighthouses operated by NLB.

Lighthouse workers vote for strike action in historic first

Housing Executive workers have agreed pay offer after striking since September last year.

NIHE strike ends after pay deal agreed with workers

Passengers travelling from Heathrow Terminal 5 over Easter have been told to expect delays (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

British Airways cancel dozens of Easter flights amid strike action

Unite’s Susan Fitzgerald calls for meeting with Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Chris Heaton-Harris stating: 'Northern Ireland is facing a growing childcare crisis, but it is unclear how much, if any, of the new Budget 2023 childcare funding will be available to Northern Ireland'

NI childcare crisis: Unite seeking urgent meeting with Secretary of State for NI

Workers at Kingspan in Portadown are taking part in strike action over pay.

Strike at Kingspan continues

Heathrow workers are to strike over Easter. Credit: Getty Images

Heathrow Airport Easter strike: Staff will walk out for 10 days

Photos of snow rollers in fields on Ivy Hill, Lisburn taken by Kenny Maze

Fresh warning of snow for Northern Ireland, but snow rollers unlikely

1Road gritting snowplough lorry

Strike action has 'diminished' ability to combat hazardous driving conditions

1Road gritting snowplough lorry

No sign of breakthrough in road gritting stand-off with severe weather imminent

More than two hundreds Unite members employed by the Roads Service of Northern Ireland will be joining with colleagues in the GMB in taking strike action for a week commencing today (Monday)

Roads Service maintenance workers in Unite commence one week strike action

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

Fallen tree near Ballycastle

GMB members in Northern Ireland's Road Service vote for strike

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

Drax Group Plc’s power station where workes have voted to go on strike.

UK homes ‘face power cuts’ due to strike action at major station

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

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

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

A gritter and snow plough. Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Icy roads could go unsalted as Roads Service workers prepare to ballot

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

Ambulance strike dates 2023: Unite announce new strikes taking total to ten across England and Wales

Ambulance strike dates as Unite announce fresh action

Health workers during a protest

NI health unions demand talks with Heaton-Harris in the absence of Stormont

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

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

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

Unite Northern Ireland health service workers balloted on possible strike action