Trade unions
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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McDonald’s harassment and bullying cases ‘truly horrific’, says UK boss
November 14, 2023The UK boss of McDonald’s has told MPs that widespread cases of sexual harassment and bullying of workers at its fast food shops are “truly horrific” and that the chain was receiving one to two complaints a week about sexual harassment. McDonald’s, which has 1,450 outlets and employs close to 180,000 people in the UK, […]
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No 10 says 40% of trains must always run under new laws to limit impact of strikes to be brought in by Christmas – UK politics live
November 6, 2023No 10 says 40% of trains must always run under laws limiting impact of rail/ambulance/border strikes coming by Christmas The government has announced that it intends to activate before Christmas new laws to limit the right of railway workers, ambulance staff and border officials to go on strike. Under the proposals, 40% of rail services […]
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Lady McDonagh obituary
June 25, 2023The former Labour Party general secretary Margaret McDonagh, who has died aged 61 from brain cancer, was a formidable political strategist responsible for the tactics that won her party the landslide general election in 1997, sweeping Tony Blair and “New Labour” into office for a generation. A key figure in the modernisation of the party’s […]
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