14/05/2021

Thurrock Council has said that it is ‘disappointed’ workers in the local authority’s waste and recycling department have decided to continue pay strike.

13/05/2021

Staff working at a council-owned company in Norwich have announced five days of strike action over 'broken promises' on pay.

18/11/2020

Up to 1,000 workers at Newry, Mourne and Down District Council are set to strike following a row about pay and conditions.

08/04/2020

Refuse collectors in Wirral have refused to work after claiming Biffa Waste Services failed to introduce strict social distancing measures.

30/03/2020

Negotiators hope to keep local government pay discussions on track despite the difficulties posed by the coronavirus crisis.

31/01/2020

An eight-month long strike at Bromley’s library services has finally ended following an agreement between Unite and the employer, Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL).

24/01/2020

Newham council faces ‘significant disruption’ to council tax collection and rebates when staff stage a week-long strike in a job evaluation row.

12/12/2019

Firefighters in Surrey have voted in favour of industrial action short of strike over the Christmas period in order to fight against local authority cuts.

03/12/2019

Council fleet mechanics in Wigan are being balloted for strike action after being told to work late on Fridays, according to Unite.

19/11/2019

A number of health visitors in Lincolnshire started a month-long strike yesterday over what they describe as the council’s ‘divide and rule’ policy.

13/11/2019

A strike by library workers in Bromley, south east London, is set to enter its sixth month.

03/09/2019

Housing employees at Greenwich Council in London are being balloted for strike action over the ending of a productivity agreement.

06/08/2019

Unite have announced that health visitors employed by the council will be holding further demonstrations across Lincolnshire as part of an ongoing pay dispute.

16/07/2019

Health visitors in Lincolnshire began strike action yesterday after failing to reach an agreement with the county council over their rate of pay.

30/04/2019

Birmingham City Council has apologised to Unite the Union over comments made during the recent protracted dispute with refuse collectors.

15/04/2019

Newham council workers are threatening the council with strike action after the authority proposed a new pay structure that would lead to cuts.

02/04/2019

Dundee City Council workers have voted in support of industrial action in response to local authority cuts.

18/03/2019

Refuse collectors who took part in strikes in Birmingham are to be given £3,500 each in a settlement which both sides say has ended the long-running dispute.

04/03/2019

Unions called off a planned strike by refuse collectors in Birmingham today after the city council lost a bid to have the action declared illegal.

15/02/2019

With a series of one-day strikes to go ahead in Birmingham, Mark Whitehead explores what led to this long-running dispute over waste collection.

15/02/2019

A series of one-day strikes by refuse collectors in Birmingham is set to go ahead next week after a legal challenge by the Unite union failed.

07/02/2019

Unite is taking high court legal action against Birmingham City Council for operating refuse vehicles without safety critical role.

05/02/2019

Over 300 refuse workers have announced they will begin two days of strike action a week in an escalation of the ongoing industrial dispute with the council.

24/01/2019

Mark Whitehead explores the challenges facing Glasgow City Council following its agreement to settle the £500m equal pay deal.

09/11/2018

The 3% pay offer for council workers in Scotland has been rejected by members of Unison Scotland.

05/11/2018

Mark Whitehead explores the complexities of an equal pay dispute that led to thousands of women striking last month in Glasgow.

29/10/2018

An association of council pension funds has called for the replacement of Ryanair’s chair and has urged Michael O’Leary to set out his succession plans.

26/10/2018

Talks following the two-day strike by more than 8,000 women in Glasgow this week were described as positive and constructive by both sides.

25/10/2018

Mark Whitehead explores what led thousands of council staff to strike in Glasgow this week.

25/10/2018

Talks were taking place today in a bid to settle the equal pay row that led to a two-day strike by more than 8,000 women in Glasgow this week.

24/10/2018

Unions were today claiming the strike by 8,000 women staff in Glasgow over equal pay was solid and council facilities had shut down as other workers refused to cross picket lines.

23/10/2018

The strike by 8,000 women staff in Glasgow over equal pay appeared to be escalating on day one as more workers downed tools to show their support.

23/10/2018

One of the biggest strikes in the UK over equal pay went ahead this morning as thousands of women walked out in the dispute with Glasgow City Council.

22/10/2018

Thousands of women at one of the UK's biggest councils are set to walk out on strike for two days this week over equal pay.

14/09/2018

A new pay offer has been put forward by councils in Scotland in a bid to avert industrial action.

07/06/2018

A third union has voted to take industrial action at East Dunbartonshire Council over proposed changes to terms and conditions including cuts in holiday entitlement.

09/05/2018

Workers employed under an outsourced council contract to sort out waste for recycling have entered the second week of a strike over sick pay.

24/04/2018

Workers at East Dunbartonshire Council yesterday voted for industrial action against ‘unacceptable cuts’ to staff terms and conditions.

28/03/2018

A number of Bromley’s library staff went on strike today in response to what their union describes as a ‘paltry and insulting’ pay offer.

22/12/2017

Care home workers in Birmingham have balloted to go on strike in protest at job losses and new shift patterns.

21/09/2017

Unite has suspended industrial action after the High Court ordered Birmingham City Council to withdraw redundancy notices it had served on 113 refuse workers.

18/09/2017

An agreement aimed at ending a long-running pay dispute between teaching assistants and Derby council has fallen through raising the threat of further strikes.

05/09/2017

Birmingham City Council leader was battling for his political survival today as he faced down calls to quit over the long-running bin dispute.

01/09/2017

Bin workers in Birmingham are back on strike today after an agreement reached with the city council appeared to fall

25/08/2017

A row is brewing between Birmingham City Council’s management and senior councillors over how to end the long-running industrial dispute with bin men.

17/08/2017

The seven-week bin strike in Birmingham has been suspended after trade union Unite agreed to further negotiations with the council.

14/08/2017

Birmingham City Council has publicly apologised to residents affected by an ongoing bin strike which could last until December.

20/06/2017

Proposals aimed at ending a long-running dispute with teaching assistants in Durham could mean more than three quarters of the staff being given a pay rise.

02/06/2017

Industrial action in Scotland over local government pay has been scuppered after a ballot by Unison failed to reach the minimum threshold of the new Trade Union Act.

31/05/2017

Refuse workers in Birmingham have started voting on strike action amid accusations of financial mismanagement and an overspend by the council of nearly £10m.

10/05/2017

The Welsh government will introduce a Bill amendment designed to ensure agency workers cannot be recruited to cover the work of public sector employees during industrial action.

11/04/2017

Scotland’s largest local government trade union is to ballot its members over possible strike action after rejecting the latest pay offer from town halls.

06/04/2017

Teaching assistants in Derby have voted overwhelmingly to end a ten-month campaign of strike action over pay and working time.

20/01/2017

A dispute over Glasgow City Council’s moves to privatise IT provision has been resolved with union members voting to accept a deal that protects ‘jobs, terms and conditions and current employment status’.

21/10/2016

A union has accused Derby council of ‘inflaming tensions’ over a pay dispute with school support staff, while teaching assistants vote for industrial action in Durham.

22/09/2016

Traffic wardens in Hackney have declared a 24 hour strike as part of a pay and victimisation dispute.

14/09/2016

The Welsh government has launched proposals to protect the rights of public sector workers in Wales.

02/08/2016

The number of workers taking part in strike action fell to a record low last year, according to official statistics.

26/07/2016

Members of the GMB Union at North Lanarkshire Council are to be balloted for industrial action in a row over pay cuts.

20/05/2016

Members of the GMB union at Glasgow City Council have voted to strike over changes to working arrangements which they say could cost them up to £500 a year each.

12/04/2016

Trade union Unison has warned it will consider taking industrial action after its members rejected the two-year pay offer.

15/01/2016

Union members threaten strike action over dramatic council cuts to children’s services.

04/09/2015

Strike action in Doncaster has been called off, which would have seen up to 200 council staff walk out on the opening day of the St Leger Festival.

14/08/2015

A borough has been warned it could face 'stinking bins' as 100 refuse collectors plan two days of strikes over a pay dispute.

15/07/2015

Unions have warned that a planned Government overhaul of strike laws will make it ‘virtually impossible’ for public sector staff to confront ‘bad employers’.

13/07/2015

Britain’s largest union has erased a clause in its rulebook requiring strikes to remain legal, ahead of the introduction of tighter controls on industrial action.

26/06/2015

A trade union has launched a scathing attack on proposals for a council to spend millions on ‘property speculation’ instead of local services.

15/06/2015

The head of Britain’s largest trade union has said he is not ruling out staging illegal strikes if the Government launches tougher rules on industrial action.

28/05/2015

Trade unions have hit out at Government plans to raise the threshold for strike action, announced in yesterday’s Queen’s speech.

27/05/2015

The Conservatives have pledged to ‘protect essential public services against strikes’, using today’s Queen’s Speech to confirm it will set a tougher threshold for industrial action.

01/05/2015

An eight-day strike by refuse drivers in the London borough of Barking and Dagenham went ahead today over wage cuts.

22/04/2015

A London borough’s Conservative Group has branded a planned 14-day staff strike over outsourcing fears as ‘left wing dogma’.

22/04/2015

Liberal Democrats have promised to end pay cuts for public sector workers if the party takes power in the General Election.

21/04/2015

Reigate and Banstead Council has been accused of ‘flouting laws’ surrounding holiday pay for staff who consistently do overtime.

20/04/2015

A second wave of strikes is to hit a London borough, as both a trade union and the local Labour group hit out against outsourcing.

17/04/2015

Two days of strike action are to hit a London borough later this month, as staff walk out over contract fears.

15/04/2015

Conservative plans to crackdown on strike action by setting tough new voting thresholds have been labelled an attack on ‘democratic and legitimate rights’ by unions.

09/04/2015

Some 87% of union members at Barnet Council have voted in favour of strike action in protest against plans to outsource key services.

09/04/2015

Is the stage set for a ‘battle royal’ between unions and government over strike ballots?

02/04/2015

A spate of strikes is due to sweep through London boroughs in coming days as staff walk out over pay and privatisation fears.

01/04/2015

Around 70 Glasgow City Council homelessness staff have walked out of town hall offices over a long-running wage dispute.

01/04/2015

Council staff in Bromley are to strike for two days over protest at the ‘mass privatisation’ of services.

18/03/2015

Council staff in north London are poised to strike over the outsourcing of town hall services, which union bosses claim are causing widespread concern.

03/03/2015

A week-long strike is underway at a Scottish council over alleged bullying and intimidation by a town hall manager.

27/02/2015

Council staff in Bromley are being balloting for strike action over claims it is to reduce its workforce from 3,000 to 300.

16/12/2014

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05/12/2014

A protest against planned care home closures in Surrey has been announced for this Saturday, as trade unions fear the loss of 427 jobs.

09/10/2014

Unions have suspended a planned local government pay strike, which could have seen around a million council employees taking to the streets next week.

06/10/2014

Council staff across Scotland have voted to strike over pay, in a decision expected to affect ‘every area’ of the country later this month.

01/10/2014

Local government leaders have been urged to 'reconsider' current pay proposals ahead of national strikes by council employees and school support staff.

29/09/2014

An offer to give council staff a 2.2% pay increase in a bid to avoid further strike action has been rejected, according to council bosses.

11/09/2014

Workers at Brighton and Hove will this week begin industrial action over pay and allowances, potentially affecting services for ‘months to come’.

21/08/2014

Some 95% of council staff believe the UK’s economic recovery is mainly or only benefiting well-off people, a poll has revealed.

20/08/2014

How will the Conservatives promise of 'tougher' strike-laws affect local government?

06/08/2014

An independent review into laws governing industrial disputes has been dramatically scaled back by its leader over excessive politicisation of the issue.

04/08/2014

A council has refused to reinstate a firefighter of 25 years’ service who was sacked for tweeting about strike action.

01/08/2014

Around one million council and school support staff are set to strike this autumn after unions agreed to escalate their dispute over pay.

30/07/2014

Workers at Care UK in Doncaster have begun a two-week strike in a protest over pay.

23/07/2014

Council and school support staff will strike again later this year as part of continuing demonstrations over pay.

18/07/2014

Conservatives have pledged to tighten laws surrounding trade union strikes if they take power in the 2015 General Election.