Striking coal miners marching in London, March 1972.
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The strength of the government and public support can make a crucial difference.
The UK is experiencing a spike in industrial action as workers facing the cost of living crisis try to negotiate for wage increases.
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Strikes are happening across various UK industries at the moment, but what is the history of strike action in UK?
Companies making redundancies should treat both dismissed employees and those that remain with compassion.
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Redundancies are an unfortunate fact of life for businesses, but companies can try to make the process of job cuts less painful for workers.
London’s Oxford Circus Underground station closes as the biggest nationwide rail strike in 30 years hits the UK.
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Workers, particularly at the beginning of their careers, don’t know their rights in the workplace, and often fear asserting them.
The UK could be facing a summer of strikes, but inaccurate language affects public understanding of how unions work.
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Inaccurate language in media reports about strike action misrepresents how unions work and denies members’ agency.
The UK is preparing for national rail strikes this week. Liverpool Street station, London, June 20 2022.
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Recently announced government plans to lift a ban on hiring agency workers have been tried - and failed – as recently as 2015
Rail workers’ fear imminent reforms will impact their job security and salaries.
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Amid growing concern over job security, pay, workload and passenger safety, rail workers in England and Scotland are voting on industrial action.
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French rail transport is grinding to a halt. Teachers, truck drivers, lawyers and judges are also threatening to strike indefinitely.
Demonstrators at one of many ‘Change the Rules’ rallies in October, this one outside parliament house in Adelaide.
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As unions have shrunk, conditions for workers have got worse.
TGI Friday’s employees are joined by McStrikers during a demo in Covent Garden.
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A new generation of workers are joining trade unions and using social media to hold big employers to account.
Academic freedom therefore encompasses the freedom to research the topics we choose, to draw the conclusions we find compelling from the evidence and analysis we undertake, and to speak publicly on those matters.
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Academic freedom is routinely recognised as an important principle that is enshrined in a range of governance policies - but staff at one university say it is under threat.
Protest is taking new shapes and forms.
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High profile strikes in key sectors – from railways to utility companies and universities – have taken place so far this year.
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Traditional picket lines feel outdated now that work is no longer a place that you go, but a thing that you do.
Universities talk of internationalisation, yet international staff’s right to remain may be under threat from government rules.
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Strike rules for international staff illuminates the intractable tensions that underpin the logic of universities.
Up in arms.
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From the outside, it might look like another case of a pension black hole problem hitting another UK institution. Not so.
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Women played and integral role in the year-long struggle – despite a culture that expected them to stay at home.
Hard hats at the ready.
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Does 21st century corporate logic contain the seeds of its own destruction?
The number of strikes have fallen, but the number of days lost is double that of two years ago.
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The number of days lost to strikes are near all-time lows since records began.
Getting organised.
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It’s the first nationwide strike ballot since tough new legal requirements for industrial action were introduced.
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A rebellion against the technology which triggered the industrial revolution changed the way we understand technology.