Britain’s railways were plunged into chaos on Saturday after staff staged one of the biggest strikes in decades. Members from the RMT, Aslef and TSSA unions are holding a 24-hour strike as they continue their fight for better pay and working conditions.
Members from non-teaching education roles, such as catering staff, were due to walk out next week alongside waste disposal workers over pay disputes. However, renewed talks with Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon have paused the protest after the proposal of an offer
Putin visits Gorbachev’s open-topped coffin to pay respects Mr Gorbachev is idolised in the West for allowing eastern Europe to escape Soviet communist control but remains unpopular at home for the chaos which his “perestroika” reforms triggered. Saturday’s funeral will follow a
While staff only plan to walk out for 24 hours, the effects of the strike will likely extend to the following day on Friday, September 16. The TSSA announced strikes yesterday, August 31, with its action scheduled a week after ASLEFs. The
The trade union Unite has criticised Keir Starmer as 1,900 of its members are striking at the Felixstowe docks in Suffolk over pay disputes. The eight-day strike is the first strike by dock workers for over 30 years. The General Secretary of
Edinburgh residents are being asked to keep their rubbish inside as waste piles high during the city’s bin strike. The city’s waste workers launched a 12-day strike as unions negotiate for an improved pay offer. On day five, scenes of overflowing bins
The Tory frontrunner will put the changes before MPs within a month of becoming Prime Minister, if her leadership bid is successful. She revealed her radical shake-up as rail union leader Mick Lynch yesterday threatened walkouts could go on indefinitely unless the
Mr Tarry, boyfriend of Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner, yesterday joined members of trade union Aslef as they picketed outside London’s Paddington Station. He was removed from his role as a shadow transport minister last week after giving an unauthorised television interview
Ilford South MP Sam Tarry was sacked as Sir Keir Starmer’s Shadow Transport Minister on Wednesday after he joined the picket line in solidarity with staff from the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Union (RMT) at Euston station. Mr
Speaking to GB News, the former Labour Party leader pledged his “support” for the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) strikes, with whom he joined the picket line in London at Euston Station. He claimed the union was “speaking