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Kirklees customer service centre staff balloted for industrial action

Support staff at Kirklees College will walk out for another two days this week - Wednesday, November 8 and Thursday, November 9 - as the dispute over pay continues, trade union UNISON has revealed.

Further strike dates announced at Kirklees College, reveals UNISON

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Hundreds of Kirklees Active Leisure staff face losing jobs as cuts continue

School support workers, cleaning staff and janitors are currently on strike in Scotland as the Unison union remains locked in a pay dispute with education chiefs. (Credit: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Breaking Scottish school support staff stage strike in pay dispute

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Union consults members on possible strike ballot over Kirklees Council job cuts

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Kirklees Council confirms number of redundancies and when job cuts will be made

Breaking Nurses to vote on England-wide strikes after rejecting 5% pay rise

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Members of the Royal College of Nursing union could strike until Christmas if no deal is reached with the government over pay. (Photo by Hesther Ng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Breaking Royal College of Nursing warns of more strikes

Royal College of Nurses members, campaigning for fair pay and conditions, pictured previously taking part in industrial action at Altnagelvin Hospital. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2250GS - 38

Breaking RCN rejects Government’s pay offer - new 48 hour strike to go ahead

MP Julie Elliott alongside paramedics on the picket line outside Sunderland Ambulance station.

Breaking NHS Unison members accept pay deal offer in England

Nursing strikes 2023: Royal College of Nursing, the GMB & Unison back new pay offer - but it’s not over yet

Breaking Nursing strikes 2023: Unions back pay offer - but it’s not over yet

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Union accuses Kirklees Council of 'dereliction of duty’ over leisure services

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Union slams council for not ‘taking back control’ of struggling leisure services

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Batley Baths: Union calls on council to 'take back control' of leisure services

National ambulance and NHS trade unions have announced a day of strike action to take place tomorrow.

NHS advise when to use 999 as ambulance driver strikes begin today

Christina McAnea, general secretary of UNISON, poses with ambulance workers at a picket line outside the Waterloo ambulance station in London on December 21, 2022. - Striking UK ambulance workers took to the picket lines, escalating a dispute with the government over its refusal to increase pay above inflation after recent walkouts by nurses. (Photo by Niklas HALLE’N / AFP) (Photo by NIKLAS HALLE’N/AFP via Getty Images)

Ambulance workers in England announce two new strike dates

List of all the strikes taking place in the lead up to Christmas 2022

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1,200 troops to cover for striking ambulance & Border Force staff

A group of fraudsters have been posing as ambulance staff and knocking on doors asking for financial support ahead of upcoming industrial action.

Fraudsters posing as ambulance staff seen asking for donations

Staff at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield are on strike (Photo credit OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Wakefield’s National Coal Mining Museum staff to strike over pay

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Mandatory jab deadline for carers risks ‘catastrophic’ staff shortages

A chronic shortage of nurses has been blamed for the issues.

Patient to staff ratios at Pinderfields and Dewsbury Hospitals at 'dangerous lev...

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Bin workers in Kirklees have voted to strike

Kirklees bin workers vote in favour of strike action

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Three-day strike by NHS hospital staff called off

NHS support staff balloted over strike action in pay and pensions row

One in five hospital staff sickness days due to anxiety, stress and depression

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NHS strike suspended after improved pay offer from the government

NEW HOMES Kirklees has put in a planning application for the Westfields site.

Mirfield homes plan will ‘suck money out of town’

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NHS and ambulance services warn of strike disruption

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Unions suspend next week’s public sector strikes

Nurses vote to go on strike as pay deal sparks fury

PICKET LINE Unison workers have protested in the past about Kirklees Council budget cuts.

Union slam Kirklees Council as ‘Orwellian’ for hiring new managers
Highly paid managers are being brought in to cut services at Kirklees Council, a union has said.
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Several schools on the Fylde coast will be closed on Thursday due to strike action

Public sector strikes: Closures in Kirklees

Pay protests at Pinderfields and Dewsbury hospitals

UNISON calls on NHS staff to protest over pay

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Yorkshire Ambulance service faces more strike action

REFUTING CLAIMS Yorkshire Ambulance Service chief executive David Whiting.

Unite ballots Yorkshire Ambulance Service members in row over shifts

Strike averted at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust

STRIKE THREAT The University and College Union is balloting members at Kirklees College .

Summer of strikes ahead

UPDATED - Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust staff vote for more strike action

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