Trade unions
RMT accepts three-year pay deal for London Underground staff
November 4, 2025The RMT union has accepted a three-year inflation-plus pay deal for London Underground workers, ending the dispute that led to travel chaos in London in September and increasing drivers’ pay to nearly £80,000 by 2027. The deal, with an initial 3.4% increase backdated to this April, means London Underground staff pay will rise in line […]
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TfL invites RMT for further talks as London tube services resume after strike
September 12, 2025Transport for London has invited the RMT to resume talks as the union’s week of strikes came to a close, with tube train services restored after early disruption on Friday. Services on all London Underground lines restarted on Friday morning after the morning rush hour, but delays continued due to the after-effects of a series […]
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TfL faces legal action over licence delays for Uber and other private hire drivers
July 4, 2025Transport for London is facing an “unprecedented” legal challenge from the union representing Uber and other minicab drivers over claims that delays in issuing licences have damaged their livelihoods. TfL has previously apologised for delays in licensing but drivers and their union, the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB), say they are launching the […]
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Tube drivers call off planned strikes after ‘improved offer’
November 5, 2024A planned strike by tube drivers that threatened to halt all London Underground services on Thursday has been called off, their union announced. Talks between Aslef officials and Transport for London management on Tuesday led to a “significantly improved offer”, according to the union. Aslef had called two 24-hour strikes in the capital, to take […]
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Cleaners at prestigious UK girls’ school win dispute over pay and conditions
August 29, 2024Cleaners at a prestigious London private school have won their battle for improved pay and working conditions, as well as compensation for steep cuts in their hours, scrapping plans for industrial action that was due to have started next week. As part of the dispute former pupils of James Allen’s girls’ school (Jags) in Dulwich, […]
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Cleaners at prestigious UK girls’ school vote to strike over cut in hours
July 14, 2024Cleaners at one of the most prestigious private girls’ schools in the country have voted for strike action after being told out of the blue they are to be docked five weeks of work a year. The dispute has broken out at James Allen’s girls’ school (Jags) in Dulwich, south-east London, founded in 1741, which […]
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Only 40 LNER intercity rail services to run on Saturday as train drivers strike
April 19, 2024A train drivers’ strike will lead to almost three in four services being cut on Saturday on LNER, which operates intercity trains between London, York and Edinburgh. Members of the Aslef union will take industrial action for 24 hours on 20 April – and also ban overtime during the weekend – in a dispute over […]
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‘Cultural and social vandalism’: job cut plans at Goldsmiths attacked
March 27, 2024Plans for mass redundancies at Goldsmiths, University of London, have been called a “horrifying act of cultural and social vandalism” and the “biggest assault on jobs at any UK university in recent years”. The job cuts, which are now subject to a consultation, are the latest in a series of redundancies at Goldsmiths and elsewhere […]
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English National Opera strike suspended as interim settlement agreed
January 29, 2024A planned strike by musicians and performers in the English National Opera over planned cuts to its workforce has been suspended. On Monday, the performing arts union Equity announced an interim settlement with the ENO and said it expected a full resolution soon. “We are pleased to announce that Equity has reached an interim settlement […]
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Lady Kinnock of Holyhead obituary
December 4, 2023Glenys Kinnock, the former MEP and minister of state at the Foreign Office, who has died aged 79, was a determined feminist who realised her political ambitions by securing recognition as an international stateswoman, after having spent nearly 30 years as a classroom teacher. Despite her delight in her second career, Lady Kinnock of Holyhead, […]
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