UK Strikes 2024

UK Strikes 2024

Birmingham bin strikes have been on going since January 2025

Why are bin men on strike in Birmingham and how long have they been doing it for?

Angela Rayner

Angela Rayner's own staff to strike after being told to come into the office more often

RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch

RMT union boss Mick Lynch announces retirement

Avanti West Coast train managers are going on strike

Festive train misery as Avanti West Coast staff to strike on New Year's Eve and several other January dates

Avanti West Coast Pendolino 390 passenger train at Carlisle Station

Christmas rail misery as Avanti West Coast announces wave of strike action

Tube drivers along the Victoria line have allegedly been asked to wear ear defenders

Tube drivers plan go-slow protest against 'extreme noise levels' on London Underground

Border Force officer holds a placard at a picket line outside Heathrow Airport, during strikes over changes to their working conditions, in London, on April 29, 2024.

Government cleaners vote to strike over pay and working conditions

Train drivers have overwhelmingly voted to back a new pay deal and end the dispute

Train drivers vote to back multi-year pay deal and end two year dispute

Border Force staff at Heathrow are set to strike.

Holidaymakers face travel chaos as Border Force staff at Heathrow prepare for month of strike action

LNER train at King's Cross station as ASLEF union announces that train drivers at London North Eastern Railway will strike on weekends in September, October, and November. Credit: Vuk Valcic/Alamy Live News

LNER train drivers call off more than 20 days of strikes after successful union negotiations

Ministers have been accused of ‘favouring unions over pensioners’

Ministers accused of ‘favouring unions over pensioners’ as GPs ‘next to receive payout’ after rail deal

Rail strikes could soon come to an end

Train drivers offered bumper pay deal to end strikes after two years of rail misery

A nine-year-old girl is in a "life-threatening" condition after being hit by a bus - with the driver arrested at the scene.

Girl, 9, fighting for life and bus driver arrested after horror crash in south London that also injured boy, 5

It's the first time family doctors have taken industrial action in sixty years

GPs could curb number of patients they see after vote for collective action

Wes Streeting has urged GPs not to strike

‘Don’t punish patients’, Health Secretary urges GPs as industrial action threatens to bring NHS ‘to standstill’

Junior doctors stage a rally in Whitehall outside Downing Street as they begin their latest strike over pay. Credit: Vuk Valcic/Alamy Live News

Junior doctors 'could strike again next year' despite 22% pay rise as union leader considers 'long sustained action'

Junior Doctors have been on strike for several years

Junior doctors reach improved pay deal to increase wages by 20 per cent over two years

An independent review recommended teachers and nurses get 5.5% pay rises

'There's also a cost to no deal': Treasury minister hints at above-inflation pay rise for public sector workers

An independent review has recommended teachers and nurses get 5.5% pay rises

Teachers and nurses among millions of public sector workers that should get 5.5% pay rise, ministers told

Junior doctors in England will restart negotiations with the Government next week.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting vows to restart talks with junior doctors next week

Striking junior doctors

Fears over latest junior doctors strike amid 30C heatwave and warning of risk of 'increased mortality'

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'What on earth are they doing?!': Chancellor slams junior doctors' strike before election as 'political football'

'What on earth are they doing?!': Chancellor slams junior doctors' strike before election as 'political football'

Heathrow staff have announced strike dates for the back end of half term.

Travel chaos ahead for Brits as Border Force officers to strike at Heathrow Airport during half term

An Easyjet strike would cause chaos for passengers

Summer 'agony' for holidaymakers as major airline strike looms after 'pilots reject bumper pay rise'

Signage at Victoria station, London, as train drivers from the Aslef union launch a wave of fresh walkouts in a long-running dispute over pay

Misery for commuters, as third train strike in four days brings railways to a standstill

NHS consultants have agreed a deal to end long-running pay dispute

NHS consultants end pay dispute after accepting fresh government pay offer

Commuter strikes are beginning

Commuter chaos begins: Four days of train strikes under way as £60,000-a-year drivers walk out at five rail operators

More than half of NEU members voted in the indicative ballot.

Teaching union members back further strike action over pay in indicative ballot

Border Force staff will walk out from April 11

Hundreds of Border Force officers at Heathrow Airport to stage four-day strike

Huge crowds at Waterloo Station during a train strike

Full list of rail and tube strikes in April and May as London Underground workers announce Easter holidays walkout

Junior doctors demonstrate in Trafalgar Square before marching to the Department of Health, April 11, 2023

Junior doctors vote by 98 per cent to continue strike action for another six months over pay dispute

Bike couriers working for online food delivery companies Deliveroo and Uber Eats

Takeaway delivery riders to strike on Valentine's Day, demanding better pay and working conditions

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