Met Police 999 call centre staff strike over pay on NYE
175 Metropolitan Police call centre staff will strike for 25 hours on New Year's Eve, causing major delays to emergency responses in a dispute over pay. Learn the full impact.
175 Metropolitan Police call centre staff will strike for 25 hours on New Year's Eve, causing major delays to emergency responses in a dispute over pay. Learn the full impact.
Metropolitan Police staff will strike for 25 hours on New Year's Eve, risking emergency call delays. Unite union warns of disruption during London's busiest night. Read the full story.
Skydiving instructors in three Australian states have walked out in a major pay dispute, grounding flights during a peak tourism period. The union warns safety is at risk.
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The British Medical Association faces a formal pay dispute with its own staff after offering a 2% pay rise, while its doctors strike for 26%. Read the full story on the growing internal conflict.
Tate gallery staff are striking for a week over below-inflation pay rises, with reports of employees using food banks. The action coincides with a major exhibition opening.
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A heated debate on NHS salaries erupts after a consultant calls her £100,000 wage 'pathetic', while a teacher highlights the vast pay gap within the public sector. Share your views.
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Specialist blood-taking staff at Gloucestershire hospitals continue historic 236-day strike over pay grading dispute. Union demands fair recognition for skilled work. Read the full story.
Working days lost to strikes under Labour surge past 750,000 despite inflation-busting pay awards to unions. Junior doctors' walkouts escalate as talks collapse.
Thousands of aerospace workers across the UK have launched strike action against defence giant Leonardo, protesting a pay offer they say is a real-terms cut. Read more on the unfolding industrial action.
Over 150 Tate staff will strike from 26 Nov to 2 Dec after rejecting a 2-3% pay offer. The action could disrupt major exhibitions. Read more on the industrial action.
New data reveals Australian public servants are enjoying their fastest wage growth in 15 years, outstripping private sector increases and raising questions about economic fairness.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting accuses junior doctors of holding the country to ransom after they reject inflation-busting pay deal, triggering fresh NHS walkouts that threaten to cripple healthcare services.
London Underground workers have accepted a groundbreaking pay deal, ending threat of further Tube strikes. The RMT union's agreement brings 5% pay rise and includes major concessions on working conditions.
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Thousands of London Underground staff to receive significant salary increases and improved benefits following successful negotiations between RMT union and TfL.
RMT union members overwhelmingly accept transformative pay agreement with TfL, ending years of dispute and securing significant wage increases for London Underground staff.
Hundreds of defence workers across Scotland and England are set to walk out in coordinated strike action after rejecting a 'completely inadequate' pay offer from Italian-owned Leonardo.
Hundreds of catering workers at Leonardo UK sites across Britain begin sustained strike action in dispute over real-terms pay cuts and working conditions.
Unite the Union prepares for industrial action ballot at Leonardo's Edinburgh and Southampton sites as workers reject 'inadequate' pay offer from the defence contractor.
In a dramatic shareholder revolt, Norway's massive sovereign wealth fund has voted against Elon Musk's controversial compensation package, dealing a significant blow to the Tesla CEO ahead of the company's annual meeting.
The BBC has reached a confidential settlement with a female radio presenter in a significant gender pay discrimination case that threatened to expose the corporation's pay practices.
Major healthcare unions have rejected the government's proposed 3% pay rise for NHS workers, branding it 'completely inadequate' and threatening coordinated strike action that could cripple health services this winter.
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