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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…
Financial anxieties and fear of backlash weigh on those who have just started in roles as they take part in action over payAs junior doctors in England take to the picket line on Friday morning, thousands of them will have been in their roles since onl…
Strike could push number of appointments cancelled due to NHS industrial action over a millionJunior doctors in England have launched a fifth round of industrial action, with thousands going on strike just days after starting their first NHS jobs.The l…
Exclusive: Nearly 50 GMB members to stop work at Ayrshire site that assembles Storm Shadow and Brimstone missilesWorkers at a munitions plant that supplies Ukraine with missiles are going on strike for two weeks in an escalating dispute over pay and bo…
Deputy PM suggested FBU’s Labour affiliation influenced its decision to raise concerns about the Bibby StockholmThe deputy prime minister has been accused of making “disgraceful” comments after claiming that the firefighters’ union had raised safety c…
Work and pensions secretary said working for Deliveroo could be good option for older people, despite low pay and job insecurityThe TUC has accused the work and pensions secretary, Mel Stride, of “glorifying the gig economy” instead of tackling the rea…
Unions say widespread job losses in recent months have left UK ‘teetering on the brink of recession’The TUC has urged the Bank of England to call a halt to interest rate increases after warning that widespread job losses in recent months have left the …
While many welcome the end of strike action, the campaign for fair pay and better funding for state schools looks set to continueMinisters will have heaved a huge sigh of relief to see teachers and school leaders in England vote to accept a 6.5% pay of…