Museum staff in walkouts
Workers have not been lying down during the summer heat. Across the country they have been taking action against employers where working conditions are not good enough.
Conditions
Conditions
Bus drivers act over conditions
Over 1,500 Arriva North London bus drivers took strike action during August over hot weather working.
Victory at Sheffield Hallam University
23 June 2026
A dispute at Sheffield Hallam University over lecturers’ conditions has been resolved after solid strike action during May and June. The employer withdrew plans that would have worsened pension provision, but a threat to jobs remains.
Teachers strike for safety
6 March 2026
Teachers at a school in Gloucestershire are taking action to resolve what thy say are unsafe working conditions. So far the school and the academy trust of which it is a member are not listening…
Universities: Action across the country
Members of the University and College Union are taking action across the country in defence of jobs and conditions.
Royal Mail festive “truce” – for now
20 December 2023
Royal Mail workers have called off industrial action over Christmas and the New Year. CWU, their union said there was enough progress to call a “truce” over the holiday period.
Cruise operator withdraws conditions threat
1 December 2023
Cruise operator Carnival quickly withdrew an apparent threat to fire and rehire over 900 maritime professionals. After urgent negotiations with their union, the company confirmed it will not do so.
Dairy Products: Drivers strike
Around 70 HGV drivers and shunters at Muller’s Stonehouse factory in Gloucestershire are to escalate their dispute...
BT staff yes to action vote
Communications Workers Union BT Group membership responded to a consultative ballot on industrial action in defence of job security and terms and conditions with a huge 97.9 per cent yes vote.
Ferry contract scandal
The RMT was prominent in reacting to the farcical award of a contract for ferry services to Seaborne Freight, a company with no ships.
Northern Trains - progress on guards
11 February 2019
RMT members on Northern Trains look to have brought their two-year dispute over guards on trains to a successful conclusion. Talks will now take place to put an agreement into practice.
Free movement? More a free ride for universities
Academics complain that their wages have been capped since 2008, and they’re right. But they don’t seem to be applying their collective intellect to working out why…
A waste of a dispute?
The short dispute among waste collection vehicle drivers in Barking and Dagenham ended with a return to work. One lesson of the setback is that unions must work together.
Surrey bus drivers ballot for action
6 May 2015
More than 100 bus drivers working for Abellio Surrey at its Byfleet depot are being balloted for strike action in a dispute over pay and conditions.
Barnsley College workers strike for conditions
3 April 2015
Barnsley College workers are in dispute over restructuring plans that will bring worse pay and conditions. A series of strikes restarted with four more days' action in the week ending 20 March.
Where’s the holiday?
Workers are failing to take the full amount of holiday they are entitled to, according to a survey of more than 2,000 staff.