All news on the topic: Strikes

Brian Reade says the Tories are fine with huge salaries and bonuses in the private sector - it's the market - but won't apply the same logic to public sector wage rises

The Unite union has said there will be a fresh series of strikes by ambulance workers with 10 more to take place over the coming week in an escalation of the dispute over pay and conditions

French airport workers have walked out today over plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, while Spanish air traffic controllers have announced strikes in January and February

Today Simon Clarke, who served as a Cabinet Minister when Liz Truss was Prime Minister, had the gall to tell nurses relying on foodbanks they needed to 'budget better and take responsibility'

Tory Simon Clarke accused NHS workers of not managing their shrinking personal budgets properly. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, who earns £84,000 a year as an MP, sparked fury with his comments

A terminal cancer patient publicly thanked the nurses who 'kept her alive' and supported them in their strike action today. Claire Mooney said she supported the thousands of nurses who walked out across the country today

Jade McCauley, 34, had handed in her notice as a community nurse at Northern General Hospital in Sheffield in tears before u-turning and joining strikers on the picket line

'People aren't dying because nurses are striking. Nurses are striking because people are dying' says union

The £40 per hour inducement to cross picket lines at York Hospital is unlikely to be the only instance of lucrative deals being dangled before the eyes of replacement staff

With the strike deadlock between NHS nurses and the government not looking likely to break anytime soon, we’ve looked at what the NHS heroes earn and how this compares with other professions

Labour's Deputy Leader Angela Rayner branded the Government's controversial Strikes (Minimum Services) Bill 'irrational and so insulting' as protesters gathered outside Downing Street during a tense debate

Teachers are walking off the job today as part of a dispute over pay and working conditions - but do you support the strikes? Vote in our poll to have your say.

Even more nurses will walk out next month as the row continues over pay and staff shortages which staff say are putting patients' safety and lives at risk

The GMB union told the Prime Minister that emergency workers felt 'utterly betrayed' by the Tory attempts to paint them as uncaring and to pile blame onto staff for crisis scenes in the NHS

Politicians shouldn't be allowed to moonlight, hit the speech circuit, or take a holiday without their employer's approval. Which is us, says Fleet Street Fox

You've made your voices heard - but exactly how many of you support industrial action?

Paramedic Angharad Williams, 31, told the Mirror she has had to say sorry to the families of three patients who died waiting for ambulances due to the overstretched NHS

The Mirror watched as a crew dropped their placards and jumped in a van at Anfield ambulance station in Liverpool, Merseyside, to attend to a patient who had suffered a cardiac arrest

'Lives have been put at risk every single day, not because of these strikes', says GMB general secretary Rachel Harrison

Shaun Sproule has previously taken time off from his role with North West Ambulance Service due to stress, and warns that 'clapping doesn’t feed families' amid a cost of living crisis

The Business Secretary is accused of 'demonising' striking ambulance workers as he turns his fire on the unions - and publishes a Bill to enforce minimum service levels on unions

One minute you'll see nurses maybe getting a cash payment - the next minute the Tories are cracking down on the right to strike. It seems both could be true, but one might be more true than the other...

An 'angry' Unite rep blasted 'insulting' Health Secretary Steve Barclay for offering no deal after talks lasting an hour - despite Rishi Sunak and Downing Street hinting a cash offer could be on the table

Here are all the strike dates currently planned or being balloted on for major unions including railways, paramedics, DVSA driving tests, DVLA, NHS nurses, junior doctors, teachers, firefighters and DWP

Kevin Maguire argues that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is completely out of touch with ordinary working people as strike action grinds on into the New Year across the UK