Trade unions

Students working long hours on top of their studies risk burnout and anxiety, researchers say

Women working while they study 'harassed and underpaid'

The trial will see passengers pay more or less depending on how busy a service is Photo by Dan Dennison/Getty Images)

Full List of train ticket office closures, is your area affected?

Teachers are among just one of the many professions striking

Who is striking and when in 2023?

University staff go on strike today with more on the way as pay and pension dispute rages on (Photo by Martin Pope/Getty Images)

University staff go on strike over pay and pension dispute

RMT general secretary Mick Lynch (centre) on an RMT picket line during January’s strike (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Breaking Who is on strike today? Teachers & junior doctors included

Rail workers will stage a series of fresh strikes in March and April (Photo: Getty Images)

Strike action taking place in March 2023 in the UK - including NEU

Representatives of National Education Union (NEU), Communication Workers Union (CWU) and the public-service union Unison join a rally by the University and College Union (UCU).

UK mass strike will see half a million workers walk out today

Who is striking in February 2023? Full list of all industrial action

North West Ambulance Service urged the public to call 999 only in life-threatening situations as strike action loomed

Ambulance service pleas for 999 calls only in 'life-threatening emergencies'

Organiser and host of one of the rally events Taj Ali

Enough is Enough Rally: what is happening on October 1

Francis O’Grady

Unions call for Chancellor to tackle labour shortages and boost wages

The hi-tech Oxide Fuels Complex at the Springfields site in Salwick

Jobs face the axe at Lancashire's key nuclear fuels plant

Furloughed staff say a restaurant chain asked for 10% of their wages - and threatened redundancy if they didn’t agree (Photo: Shutterstock)

Furloughed staff say a restaurant chain asked for 10% of their wages - and threa...

Preston fares better than most in paying the Living Wage

Anger at struggling Lancashire workers' low pay

West View Leisure Centre, Preston

14 jobs at risk as Preston's West View Leisure Centre is to stay closed

Ambulances

Strike action looms as paramedics in Lancashire are balloted on overtime rules
Ambulance staff in Lancashire are being balloted about possible industrial action over an overtime ban imposed on workers for taking time off sick.
Tom Earnshaw, Reporter

Is your office like a greenhouse?

Heatwave: How hot does it need to be before you can ask your boss to go home?

TUC general secretary Frances OGrady poses in front of a digital poster ahead of a rally in Westminster last year to protest against the Trade Union Bill. A correspondent warns the bill which has now been given royal approval will be harmful for workers

Readers' letters - May 17

A reader has had his operation cancelled because of the medics strike. See letter

Readers' letters - March 11

Badgers are being culled yet there is another solution says a reader. See letter

Readers' letters - February 2

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