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Passengers face disruption as second date coincides with action by RMT membersBusiness live – latest updatesTrain drivers are to stage a fresh strike in their long-running dispute over pay, threatening more travel chaos for passengers.Members of Aslef …
Lack of funding and staff limit climate sector’s impact on conservation and net zero efforts, say workersStaff shortages, a lack of specialist personnel and low pay are major barriers to achieving net zero, according to workers in the UK environment se…
University and College Union is preparing a new ballot that could lead to marking boycott continuing and strikes lasting into 2024Universities across the UK will face another round of strikes next month unless employers agree to return to the negotiati…
Number of black and minority ethnic workers in low-paid and insecure jobs doubled in past decade, figures revealsThe number of black and minority ethnic (BME) workers in insecure work has more than doubled, from 360,200 to 836,340, between 2011 to 2022…
Resolution Foundation report says much of industrial action ‘fuelled’ by public sector workers’ anger over falls in real-terms payAbout 3.9m working days have been lost to industrial action in the past year, more than at any point since the 1980s, acco…
Education minister writes to university employers and union as tens of thousands of students are left without degree resultsBoth sides in a university pay row that has left tens of thousands of students without their degree results, have been urged by …
Hollywood action has broad support in UK but is hitting livelihoods decimated by pandemic and arts cutsUK film and TV workers have spoken about the devastating effects of the Hollywood strikes on their jobs and livelihoods, with many saying they are st…
The huge increase in students needed to fill medical training places, and supplying the staff to teach them, may not be feasibleA “once in a generation” NHS recruitment plan requiring an extra 50,000 clinical training places in less than a decade risks…
Exclusive: BMA council chair says medics will have no option but to stage more industrial action until ministers make ‘credible offer’Rishi Sunak’s “increasingly intransigent” and “belligerent” stance on medics’ pay is blocking the path to ending the i…
Union body raises idea of levy on UK’s richest 140,000 people as it calls for ‘national conversation’ on issueA “modest” wealth tax on the richest 140,000 people in the UK could raise more than £10bn to help pay for public services, according to the Tr…