Sydney Trains CEO Matt Longland strongly advises that Sydney residents “avoid all unnecessary travel” on Aug. 31 due to industrial action. The action, led by the Rail, Tram, and Bus Union (RTBU), will be the final industrial action of the month after a series of strikes and disruption to commuters throughout all of August. For…
Sydney Commuters ‘Strongly’ Advised to Work From Home on Wednesday Due to 24-Hour Rail Strike
Unions Reject Pay Offers, Warn of ‘Winter of Discontent’ in Scotland
Trade unions have rejected the Scottish government’s pay offers and threatened to escalate strike actions in an upcoming “winter of discontent.” Authorities in the Scottish capital Edinburgh started a major clean-up operation on Tuesday, after nearly two weeks of industrial action by the city’s waste workers left huge piles of rubbish in many streets in…
8-Day Strike Begins at UK’s Biggest Container Port
Union members at Felixstowe, Britain’s biggest container port, have gone on an eight-day strike in a dispute over pay, the first industrial action at the site in over 30 years. The port, which employs about 2,550 people, handles around 4 million containers from 2,000 ships each year, nearly half of the containerised freight entering the…
Lufthansa Pilots Vote for Industrial Action Over Pay
BERLIN—Pilots at German flagship carrier Lufthansa voted on Sunday by a margin of 97.6 percent in favor of industrial action, threatening further disruption during the busy summer travel season. Strikes and staff shortages have already forced airlines including Lufthansa to cancel thousands of flights and caused hours-long queues at major airports, frustrating holidaymakers keen to…
UK Rail Network Disrupted Again Amid Renewed Strike Action
British rail passengers are suffering fresh travel chaos after thousands of workers walked out on strike, crippling services across the country. Some 40,000 members of the Rail, Maritime, and Transport (RMT) union at Network Rail and 14 train operators went on strike on July 27, and the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA) has also announced…
Royal Mail Workers Vote to Strike Over Pay
Royal Mail workers have become the latest group to vote in favour of strikes in a dispute over pay. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said on Tuesday that in a ballot of its 115,000 members, 97.6 percent voted in favour of industrial action from a turnout of 77 percent. The union said Royal Mail offered a 2…
UK Lawmakers Approve Plan to Allow Agency Workers to Replace Strikers
Britain’s House of Commons has approved the government’s plan to ease strike disruptions by allowing businesses to supply agency workers to plug staffing gaps during industrial action. MPs voted 289 to 202 on July 11 in favour of removing the restrictions on businesses supplying temporary agency workers to cover striking staff. The regulations were brought…
Barristers Insist ‘Money Is There’ for UK Government to End Strike
One of the leaders of the union which has taken barristers in England and Wales out on strike has said the “money is there” for the government to solve the dispute and end the strike. The Justice Secretary, Dominic Raab, has said barristers will receive a 15 percent pay rise for legally aided work from…
UK Telecom Network Faces Disruption as BT Employees Vote to Strike
Britain’s telecommunications network will face disruptions as workers at telecom giant BT Group (BT) have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in a dispute over pay. The company is facing the first national strike since it was privatised in the 1980s, after members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) at BT and its wholly-owned…
Downing Street Condemns Strike Action on London Underground
The UK government has condemned strike action that is causing major disruption on London’s Underground network. On Monday, the first working day after the Platinum Jubilee bank holiday period, London’s transport network has suffered from severe disruption after 4,000 members of the Rail, Maritime, and Transport (RMT) union who work at Tube stations started a…
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