Thousands of Environment Agency employees belonging to UNISON and Prospect are to take strike action tomorrow in the growing dispute about pay. Staff working in river inspection, flood forecasting, coastal risk management and pollution control will stage industrial action in Yorkshire & Humberside on Wednesday (8 February) starting at 7:30am. In addition, for 12 hours […]
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Yorkshire Ambulance Service Strike: picket lines across the region on Monday 23 January 2023 Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) staff will commence twelve hours of strike action on Monday. Here are the confirmed picket lines at ambulance stations and other YAS workplaces. Picket lines will run for 12 hours – 10am to 10pm. Hull Sutton […]
UNISON members working for the Environment Agency in Leeds and Sheffield will take strike action for the first time on Wednesday 18 January. Staff in the agency have seen their pay eroded by over 20% in the last decade and are now “working one day in every five for nothing“. UNISON national secretary for the […]
Yorkshire Ambulance Service Strike: picket lines across the region tomorrow Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) staff will commence twelve hours of strike action on Wednesday 11th January. Here are the confirmed picket lines at ambulance stations and other YAS workplaces. Picket lines will run for 12 hours – 10am to 10pm. Hull Sutton Fields Ambulance […]
UNISON members at Yorkshire Ambulance Service strike over pay and staffing. Paramedics, emergency care assistants, ambulance technicians and other 999 crew members are among those who will be on picket lines from midday to midnight. UNISON members working for Yorkshire Ambulance Service along with their colleagues in the North West, North East, South West and London will commence their […]
UNISON are preparing to hold a consultation on potential Industrial Action with its members working in laboratories at Sheffield Children’s Hospital. A spokesperson said “members are feeling frustrated and angry about how they have been treated and we are ruling nothing out as far as what they want to do by way of action.” Laboratory […]
Higher education staff in Yorkshire and Humberside are walking out this week in a new wave of strikes over inadequate pay. Administrators, cleaners, library, security and catering workers – many of them among the lowest paid in the university sector – are among those taking industrial action. The employees are after a fair pay rise […]
Nearly 100 employees at the National Coal Mining Museum for England (NCMME) have won a pay increase of up to 10.5% following five days of strike action. Workers at the museum include ex-miners who keep the heritage of the coal industry alive for a new generation by giving talks and tours of the underground tunnels […]
NHS staff in Sheffield, whose care and support helps keep the elderly out of hospital and in their own homes, are to take industrial action from next week, over a long-running pay dispute. The care workers employed by the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust have voted to work only the hours set out in their contracts […]
