Commuters and other passengers have been urged to avoid using trains during this week’s rail strikes. Eight-in-ten trains were cancelled on Tuesday (Jan 3) as RMT members continued their long running strike for better pay and conditions, marking the worst disruption seen on Britain’s railways for 30 years. Network Rail and the Rail Delivery Group […]
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Nurses have voted for the biggest strike in NHS history after a decade of paycuts that has seen their pay fall 20% since 2010. The first ever national strike by members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will be held before Christmas, the Observer reports. While disruption to services is inevitable, the government said […]
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Criminal barristers in England and Wales have narrowly voted to end their strike after accepting an improved pay offer from the government to raise legal aid fees by 15%. The ballot ends the all-out strike by members of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) that began on September 5 and has led to hundreds of delays […]
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Criminal barristers in England and Wales have started their strike over low legal aid funding with a warning their profession faces an “existential crisis” because of severe cuts imposed by the government. Barristers say their incomes have decline by almost 30% in the last two decades. Specialist criminal barristers now earn less than the minimum […]
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Anger is growing at the government’s failure to engage in talks to avoid the UK’s biggest rail strikes in three decades. Transport secretary Grant Shapps is insistent that it is not the role of the government to negotiate rail workers’ pay and working conditions with unions. Shapps dismissed claims the government wants the strikes to […]
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