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Commuters wait at a bus stop outside a branch of Barclays in London.

Barclays bank to axe 450 jobs across the business

London Gatwick Airport will be hit by eight days of strikes this summer - Credit: Adobe

Gatwick Airport to be hit by strikes for eight days of summer holidays

Unite the union said its members will no longer strike following an improved pay offer from the employers. (Photo by Guy Smallman/Getty images)

Unite calls off 31-day Heathrow Airport strike after last-minute offer

Heathrow Airport security officers are set to strike for 31 days in the latest wave of industrial action. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Heathrow Airport security officers to strike for 31 days this summer

Workers at the Coca Cola plant in Wakefield are set to go on strike for 14 days in June. (Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Coca Cola plant workers announce 14-day strike

Strike will continue until close to midnight today May 1.

Nurses strike continues: Major disruption for NHS services in England

Members of Unite have rejected the Government’s pay offer

Security officers at Heathrow airport are set to walk out for a further eight days over a pay dispute in May, Unite has announced. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Security officers at Heathrow airport to walk out for further 8 days

A sign indicating the start of the security queue during a strike by security workers at London Heathrow Airport in London, UK, on Friday, March 31, 2023. IAG SAs British Airways is set to scrap 320 flights during the Easter week as security workers strike for 10-days over pay. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

8 tips to get through security quicker despite airport strikes

British Airways will cancel around 32 flights per day to and from Heathrow over the Easter weekend (Photo: Getty Images)

Heathrow security staff start 10-day strike affecting Easter travels

North Ronaldsay Lighthouse in the Orkney Islands is one of the 208 lighthouses operated by NLB.

Lighthouse workers vote for strike action in historic first

Lighthouse workers in Scotland are voting for strike action in a “historic first” amid warnings lives could be at risk

Passengers travelling from Heathrow Terminal 5 over Easter have been told to expect delays (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

British Airways cancel dozens of Easter flights amid strike action

Heathrow workers are to strike over Easter. Credit: Getty Images

Heathrow Airport Easter strike: Staff will walk out for 10 days

Drax Group Plc’s power station where workes have voted to go on strike.

UK homes ‘face power cuts’ due to strike action at major station

Ambulance strike dates 2023: Unite announce new strikes taking total to ten across England and Wales

Ambulance strike dates as Unite announce fresh action

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

The Fox's Biscuits factory on Whitaker Street, Batley.

Improved pay offer accepted by Fox’s Biscuit workers

Yorkshire ambulance workers are currently voting on whether to take industrial action

Ambulance workers in row over pay

The Fox's Biscuits factory on Whitaker Street, Batley.

Batley's Fox’s Biscuits hit by strike in pay row

The dispute has seen several weeks of strike action in West Yorkshire

Arriva Yorkshire bus dispute ended after workers accept improved pay offer

Batley East councillors Adam Zaman and Habiban Zaman (back row, left) and Fazila Loonat (in head scarf) on the picket line with striking bus workers

Batley councillors on the picket line as Arriva bus strike edges to conclusion

All out strike action, involving members of Unite, the UK’s leading union, resumed today after members rejected the company’s latest pay offer.

Arriva bus strike to be suspended as act of ‘good faith’ by union

Arriva workers will strike again from tomorrow after union Unite rejected the latest pay offer.

Arriva strike: Workers back on strike after rejecting latest pay offer

Arriva has responded to Unite's strike vote action due to start in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

Arriva responds to 'appalling' strike vote by workers after rejecting latest pay...

Arriva workers on the picket line during the strike action

Arriva thanks passengers as bus drivers are back on board after strike action

Mayor of West Yorkshire, Tracy Brabin

Arriva bus strike breakthrough 'a great relief', says Mayor of West Yorkshire

The strike was nearing the end of its fourth week

Arriva bus strikes in West Yorkshire suspended as workers consider new offer

This is what you need to know about the scheme from the Post Office (Photo: Shutterstock)

All 114 Post Office branches affected by strikes in July over pay row

Drivers and engineers with Unite on a picket line outside the Arriva bus depot in Dewsbury as the first day of strike action gets underway yesterday

Picket lines in Dewsbury as bus workers go on strike

Arriva buses are cancelled until the strike action is over

Here is why there will be no Arriva buses across Halifax and Dewsbury today

Campaigners from Better Buses for West Yorkshire and Unite Community were outside Dewsbury Bus Station yesterday (Wednesday) asking the public to support many of the region’s bus drivers who are in dispute with their employer, Arriva

Bus passengers in Yorkshire face major disruption as Arriva staff set to strike

Dewsbury Bus Station

Bus depot staff in Dewsbury and Heckmondwike balloted for strike action

The company will be closing a number of Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland branches (Photo: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Lloyds Banking Group to close 60 branches as customers continue to bank online

Unite the union has accused Tesco of offering a “derisory” pay increase to its members (image: PA)

Tesco staff strikes could lead to empty shelves this Christmas, union warns

Lloyds and Halifax to close 48 branches - full list of impacted stores

The UK is set to face a beer and crisp shortage due to a lack of delivery drivers and strike action (Shutterstock)

Why Britain could be set for a beer and crisps shortage

Travel industry leaders said the limited opening up of foreign travel is still not sufficient enough (Photo: Getty Images)

Green list update ‘not enough’ to save summer - despite addition of 14 new count...

In the wake of their heroic efforts nurses are being offered a 1% pay rise (Getty Images)

Nurses are being offered a 1% pay rise - here's how much they are currently paid

Bus firms in West Yorkshire to start limited passengers policy on Monday

Bus firms in West Yorkshire will start ‘limited passengers’ policy on Monday

The legislation is expected to pass its first vote in Holyrood later today (25 Feb) (Photo: Shutterstock)

Sanitary products will soon be free for everyone in Scotland

Hospital trusts at fault for ‘poor communication and diagnosis errors’ as compla...

Rail strikes off amid new pay offer

UPDATE: Parliamentary candidate urges Fox’s Biscuits to work with union over str...

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Fatigue blamed for rise in crashes involving ambulances

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Ambulance service re-recognises Unite the union
Ambulance bosses have agreed to negotiate with a union representing paramedics after two years of bitter dispute.

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NHS strike suspended after improved pay offer from the government

Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude is visiting a Savile Town youth group to see the good work they do. (D543A502)

Minister’s praise for youth group

UPDATED - 999 calls “downgraded to non-urgent” by Yorkshire Ambulance Service

Yorkshire Ambulance “alarmingly” downgraded almost 11,000 emergency calls

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Yorkshire Ambulance Service chief executive David Whiting resigns

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Strike action to hit NHS services in bitter pay dispute

North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust Ambulance

NHS and ambulance services warn of strike disruption

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Unions suspend next week’s public sector strikes

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Yorkshire ambulance staff to strike over patient safety dispute

Action: 84 per cent of staff voted to strike

Yorkshire ambulance staff vote to strike