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Nurses will start voting on Thursday on whether to strike over pay amid warnings that record numbers are leaving the profession. Around 300,000 members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) are being asked if they want to mount a campaign of ...

06 Oct 2022 at 01:01

Pay nurses a ‘decent wage’, RCN urges as it ballots on strike action

The only way to prevent nurses leaving the NHS and to fill thousands of vacancies is to pay them a “decent wage”, the head of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has said as the union ballots on strike action. For the first time in its ...

06 Oct 2022 at 16:03

Royal Mail warned of strike action in ‘fire and rehire’ row

Royal Mail is being warned it could be hit by strikes over plans to cut managers’ jobs. Unite said the company is aiming to sack nearly 1,000 managers and bring in lower rates of pay in another case of “fire and rehire”, which Royal ...

30 Mar 2022 at 17:55

Government urged to pay nurses a ‘decent wage’ as RCN ballots on strike action

Paying nurses a “decent wage” is the only way to prevent them leaving the NHS and to fill thousands of vacancies, the head of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has said as the union ballots on strike action. For the first time in ...

06 Oct 2022 at 20:41

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Staff in hospitals in Louth back industrial action

Fórsa members working at the Louth County Group of hospitals have backed industrial action by an overwhelming majority. The ballot of hospital staff, which concluded today, Thursday 16th March, took place due to an ongoing ...

16 Mar 2023 at 20:33

Council and school support staff begin voting on strike action over pay

More than a third of a million council and school support staff across England and Wales will start voting on Tuesday on whether to strike over pay. Unison said an offer of a flat rate £1,925 was “nowhere near” enough to ...

23 May 2023 at 00:01

BT workers to vote on strikes in dispute over pay

BT workers start voting on Thursday on whether to strike in a dispute over pay. Ballot papers have been sent out to members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), with the result expected before the end of the month. ...

15 Jun 2022 at 01:01

RMT to ballot ScotRail and Caledonian Sleeper staff on strike action

ScotRail workers and staff on the Caledonian Sleeper are being balloted for strike action in the wake of a pay offer union bosses have branded as “derisory”. The RMT union announced it would be balloting rail workers ...

11 Jul 2024 at 16:15

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Nurses and Midwives at Letterkenny and Sligo to vote on industrial action

Nurses and midwives at Letterkenny and Sligo University Hospitals will be among those members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) who will be balloted for potential industrial action at the start of ...

22 Aug 2022 at 16:33

Hundreds of workers at Ofgem balloted for strikes in dispute over pay and jobs

Hundreds of workers at the energy regulator Ofgem are being balloted for strikes in a dispute over pay and jobs. More than 700 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) in Glasgow, London and ...

01 May 2025 at 14:50

Scotland

Number of pupils in Scotland with additional needs likely to rise – Gilruth

The number of pupils in Scottish schools with additional support needs (ASN) is likely to rise again when figures are published later this year, the country’s Education Secretary has said. Statistics ...

11 Oct 2025 at 13:47

Scotland

Teacher ballot on strike action to open over contact time dispute

Members of Scotland’s largest teaching union are being urged to back strike action over a dispute on class contact time. The SNP pledged in its manifesto ahead of the 2021 election to reduce contact ...

12 Nov 2025 at 00:01

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