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Strikes are happening across various UK industries at the moment, but what is the history of strike action in UK?
Redundancies are an unfortunate fact of life for businesses, but companies can try to make the process of job cuts less painful for workers.
Workers, particularly at the beginning of their careers, don’t know their rights in the workplace, and often fear asserting them.
Inaccurate language in media reports about strike action misrepresents how unions work and denies members’ agency.
Recently announced government plans to lift a ban on hiring agency workers have been tried - and failed – as recently as 2015
Amid growing concern over job security, pay, workload and passenger safety, rail workers in England and Scotland are voting on industrial action.
French rail transport is grinding to a halt. Teachers, truck drivers, lawyers and judges are also threatening to strike indefinitely.
As unions have shrunk, conditions for workers have got worse.
A new generation of workers are joining trade unions and using social media to hold big employers to account.
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.
High profile strikes in key sectors – from railways to utility companies and universities – have taken place so far this year.
Traditional picket lines feel outdated now that work is no longer a place that you go, but a thing that you do.
Strike rules for international staff illuminates the intractable tensions that underpin the logic of universities.
From the outside, it might look like another case of a pension black hole problem hitting another UK institution. Not so.
Women played and integral role in the year-long struggle – despite a culture that expected them to stay at home.
Does 21st century corporate logic contain the seeds of its own destruction?
The number of days lost to strikes are near all-time lows since records began.
It’s the first nationwide strike ballot since tough new legal requirements for industrial action were introduced.
A rebellion against the technology which triggered the industrial revolution changed the way we understand technology.
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