![]() ![]() RMT, Britain’s largest transport union, on Tuesday announced four 48-hour strikes in December and January after talks with Network Rail collapsed. Strike action will also add to losses facing companies and could prompt further job cuts. That number dipped to 205,000 in September.īut the picture could get worse again before it gets better, with disruption stretching beyond Black Friday and well into the holiday season. Unison, a labor union representing nearly half a million health service workers, will complete its own strike ballot on Friday.Īccording to the Office for National Statistics, 356,000 days were lost to strike action in August, not far off the previous high recorded in July 2014, when 386,000 days were lost. Meanwhile, the Royal College of Nursing, which has more than 300,000 members, said Friday that nurses would hold a strike on two days in December - the first in the union’s 106-year history - in support of its call for higher pay. In Scotland, every school on the mainland was shut Thursday after walkouts by as many as 50,000 teachers in the first day of national strike action over pay in almost 40 years, according to the Educational Institute of Scotland, a trade union. Another strike is planned for November 30. The strike is the biggest in the history of British higher education, affecting over 2.5 million students, according to the University and College Union, which organized the strike. Strikes sweep Britain as soaring inflation savages living standards NUJ members voted to reject a 3% pay offer from the company. The National Union of Journalists says an estimated 1,150 members working for Reach plc titles have begun the first of four days of strike action in a bid to secure an increase in salary. NUJ members across Reach titles include those at the Daily Mirror, Daily Express and Manchester Evening News. Staff working for Reach PLC stand on the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) picket line at Canary Wharf in London Docklands, on 31st August 2022. “Customers should expect delays to items posted just before, during or just after strike action,” Royal Mail said in a statement. Postal workers are planning further strike action for November 30 and December 1, following walkouts in August and September. (EBAY) UK general manager, Martin McTague, chair of the Federation of Small Businesses, and Michelle Ovens, founder of campaign group Small Business Britain. Small businesses in particular are suffering “enormous damage” as a result of the postal strikes, as they “rely on an efficient mail service for so much of their trade,” according to a statement posted to LinkedIn and signed by Murray Lambell, eBay Strike action by as many as 115,000 Royal Mail staff on Thursday and Friday threatens to disrupt Black Friday sales and deliveries at a crucial time of the year for retailers. ![]() Workers are demanding better pay and working conditions as they struggle with soaring food and energy bills. Some 235,000 workers have gone on strike across the United Kingdom this week, encompassing schools, universities and the postal service. Now, the annual shopping bonanza faces an additional threat from strikes that could disrupt deliveries, subdue online sales and deliver another blow to the slumping economy. Britain’s cost-of-living crisis is already taking the shine off Black Friday. ![]()
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