Anti-strike laws are un-Conservative
Collective bargaining and the right to withdraw labour are free-market liberties.
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Read our latest comment and political analysis on strike action in both the UK and across the world.
The long and futile history of British anti-strike law
After centuries of crackdowns, UK workers still walk out – as they always have done.
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Rishi Sunak’s “anti-strike” law won’t work – just look at Europe
Minimum service levels in western EU countries are often based on mutual agreements between employers and unions rather than the…
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What are the salaries of workers going on strike in the UK?
Rail workers, nurses and paramedics aren’t paid as much as people think.
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New year heralds no resolution for Rishi Sunak
The Prime Minister projects stability, but his plans for levelling up and childcare could reopen his party’s wounds.
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Behind ambulance strikes, there’s an elephant in the emergency room
The A&E crisis has a hidden cause that cannot be fixed with paramedic pay.
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What Rishi Sunak doesn’t get about strikes
A pledge to ban strikes and thus make pay bargaining harder is a pledge to ensure recruitment and conditions keep…
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Rishi Sunak could face more NHS strikes next year
Junior doctors are poised to join nurses and ambulance workers in back-to-back strikes, and public support remains high.
Who will blink first in the NHS strikes?
Rishi Sunak claims he is ready to hold out for months, but that could leave him badly isolated.
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Why are the Tories fighting a losing battle over strikes?
The arguments against public sector pay rises have contributed to building the low wage economy that’s stuffed all of us.
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Dave Ward: “Amazon would give its right arm for Royal Mail’s job”
The Communication Workers Union head on postal strikes, universal service and why Labour needs to rebalance the world of work.
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Europe’s winter of discontent
Workers across the continent are striking in the face of surging inflation – but no country matches the UK.
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Nurses don’t strike lightly
When the heartiest of NHS staff take action, something’s up.
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Rishi Sunak needs to offer striking workers a better deal
It is not the strikes that should worry ministers most, it is that important public sector posts will be left…
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Is Rishi Sunak as hawkish on China as he made out?
The government may have missed a geopolitical trick by allowing Beijing to recall diplomats wanted for questioning by British police.
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Nurses’ pay is lower in real terms than in 2010
As strikes approach, nurses’ pay is 2 per cent less than it was 12 years ago after accounting for inflation.
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The biggest myths about this week’s strikes in the UK
Starting and average salaries for public sector workers taking industrial action are lower than most people think.
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Where will NHS nurses strike and how could it affect me?
Members of the Royal College of Nursing union are to take part in industrial action across at least 177 NHS…
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PMQs: Sunak cornered on all sides over NHS strikes
Keir Starmer accused the PM of having “curled up in a ball and gone into hibernation” as a winter crisis…
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Does the wave of strikes mark the end of the long 1990s?
The shadow cast by decades of depoliticised workplaces may finally be fading.
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