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Unionised RMT staff standing at a picket outside Euston station back in October. Mark Kerrison / Alamy Stock Photo

Strikes: how do they work?

From unions and ballots to picket-lines and sympathy strikes.
Tony Benn was ‘a signpost not a weathervane’. Fiona Hanson/PA

Tony Benn, conviction politician and old-Labour stalwart, dies

Tony Benn, who has died aged 88, was one of the great characters in 20th-century British politics. When he announced in 2001 he was “leaving Parliament to spend more time on politics” it was widely held…
The miners shouted, but most of the media wasn’t listening. PA

Miners’ strike the first IR dispute won and lost in the media

On 5 March 1984 workers downed tools at Cortonwood Colliery in South Yorkshire, in protest at the Conservative government’s plans to close pits across the country. A week later, National Union of Mineworkers…

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