29 September 2026
Workers at the prestigious Institute of Cancer Research in London, ranging from logistics and store staff to researchers and scientists have won their 66-day fight for better pay and conditions after their first ever strikes.
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.
Hundreds of Unite members at a number of biomedical establishments have been on strike after derisory pay offers.
25 March 2026
London university workers have launched a series of strikes after rejecting an “insulting” 1.4 per cent pay offer. They say this amounts to a pay cuts as their household costs are increasing.
26 February 2026
The pay dispute at the British Library has ended after strike action. PCS union members have accepted a significantly enhanced pay offer, although it fell short of their claim.
The National Education Union is running a ballot of its members in schools in England to test their response to the government’s offer of an unfunded 6.5 per cent pay increase over three years.
Members of the Prospect trade union working at the London Museum are in dispute over their pay.
15 December 2025
Leonardo workers have won their pay dispute after rejecting the low initial offer and taking strike action. But their Yeovil helicopter factory faces the threat of closure waiting for a government contract.
4 December 2025
BAE aerospace workers in Lancashire are in dispute over pay. The company turned to the courts to stop strikes but lost. Their union, Unite, has announced continuing action during December.
27 November 2025
British Library workers have rejected the latest offer in their pay dispute. They are determined to tackle low pay and reverse cuts in real wages.
Strike action by bus drivers across Greater Manchester has led to a 12 per cent increase in pay over two years.
19 September 2025
Bus drivers at three Manchester operators are taking coordinated strike action from 19 to 22 September. They have rejected low pay increases offered by the profitable companies as derisory.
13 August 2025
Arriva bus workers in south east England are being balloted on strike action over a below-inflation pay offer. Stikes could begin in September, resulting in major disruption to bus services in the areas affected.
14 July 2025
Doctors in training are once again taking strike action in pursuit of restoring their pay to former levels. They will need a flexible approach as they cannot rely on the continuing support from the public and colleagues.
In mid-December the government announced that the review bodies for public sector workers are awarding rises of 2.8 per cent for 2025.
Rolls-Royce engineering workers have finally settled their pay fight in a multi-year agreement.
18 December 2024
Rolls-Royce aerospace workers have eventually settled a multi-year pay agreement after prolonged negotiations. The industry has often led the way on pay levels, but that may change with the employers exploiting fragmentation and outsourcing.
17 December 2024
The government has announced a public sector pay rise of 2.8 per cent for 2025. Unions have denounced this as a cut in real pay. They are gearing up for a fight on pay again.
The government has imposed a pay settlement on the majority of NHS workers in England. There is no option to accept or reject. This inevitably raises the stakes for future pay claims.
Some groups of doctors have settled pay claims for now. But others are fighting for rises.
Train drivers’ union Aslef has reached agreement with the incoming Labour government to resolve a pay dispute in most of the passenger train operators. It has involved 18 days of strikes.
10 July 2024
Doctors have kept their focus on pay, making significant progress. They have not been diverted by the change of government; settlement for junior hospital doctors in England is a priority.
Hospital consultants in England have voted to accept a pay offer. The offer will see most consultants receive increases of between 2.9 and 12.8 per cent on top of 6 per cent already offered in November 2023.
27 March 2024
Pay for doctors in Wales is not resolved. They are striking again against the derisory offer from the devolved government, not accepting its plea that is all it can afford.
4 March 2024
Rail workers in London have won a significant backdated pay rise from their employer, Arriva. The dispute was settled only after the threat of strike action.
Workers across many sectors organised in Unite have recently secured over £430 million in additional pay and benefits because of successful disputes.
31 January 2024
London Tube workers have won a pay victory after the threat of strike action in early January. This came after the Mayor for London announced extra funding at the last minute.
NHS hospital consultants have secured an offer from the government in their fight for pay. Consultants’ pay had been cut, in real terms, by 35 per cent since 2008-09. Meanwhile, junior doctors' strikes continue
Workers at aerospace and defence company Rolls-Royce plc recently rejected the company’s pay offer in response to the workers’ cost of living claim made on 2 February this year.
Workers at pharmaceutical giant GSK are to escalate their strike action in a dispute over pay.
