I propose a new rule for U.K. prime ministers.
3 Months of Strikes, and you're out.

#SunakOut
#UKStrikes
#SupportTheStrikes

#UKStrikes Be careful what you wish for with a Labour government. Prison officers had the support of Labour whilst in opposition. As soon as they were in power, they took away their right to strike. This could also happen with nurses, paramedics, teachers etc. I hope I am wrong but I believe the first time any of these progressions call a strike under a Labour government would also ban them.

“I don’t think we have a name for what this is yet."

“I would call it the most important coordinated action we have seen since the 1926 General Strike.”

Dr Edda Nicolson,
Trade Union Historian.

#UKPolitics
#UKStrikes
#SupportTheStrikes

https://www.bigissue.com/news/employment/britain-on-strike-the-biggest-walkout-in-a-decade-in-pictures/

The wonderful Jonathan Pie on the #UKStrikes.

https://youtu.be/Gljtvwhcdhc

#Solidarity #UCUstrikes #UKstrikes

https://mastodon.social/@telescoper/109785941683150156

"Britain is braced for widespread strike action Wednesday, as an estimated 100,000 civil servants from government departments, ports, airports and driving test centers walk out alongside hundreds of thousands of teachers across England and Wales, train drivers from 14 national operators and staff at 150 U.K. universities."

#UKPolitics
#UKStrikes

https://www.politico.eu/article/great-britain-walkout-rishi-sunak-uk-united-kingdom-workers-strike/

I posted a while back about planning trips to the UK around #UKStrikes and once again my Tusky follows come up with the goods #MastodonFTW

Here are (probably) the currently planned #Strikes in the UK

(Who knew the #Whisky bottlers were striking 😱)
#winterOfDiscontent2023

https://www.strikecalendar.co.uk/

"Striking workers are also correctly identifying the guilty parties in a way that sometimes feels almost like a hallucination, so unaccustomed are we to hearing these arguments made in the political sphere.
Striking workers are talking about all the contextual unmentionables – extractive private bosses, an ideological legacy of deregulation and defunding, and a rightwing media that essentially functions as a political propaganda arm."

Nesrine Malik

#UKStrikes

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/16/strike-workers-britain-politicians-tories-labour

This post from @SuneAuken on #Unionisation in #universities in #Denmark is just perfect and goes out to all my colleagues in the UK as well as to all the PhD students + Postdoc #precariat everywhere who are not treated as valued employees.

💪

https://mastodon.world/@SuneAuken/109682909849392053

#UCU #UKstrikes #UCU23 #UCUStrikes

More than 750,000 UK households at risk of mortgage default, says regulator

More than three quarters of a million UK households are at risk of defaulting on their mortgage payments in the next two years, .

the Financial Conduct Authority said about 200,000 households had fallen behind on their home loans by mid-2022.

The watchdog said a further 570,000 households were “at risk of payment shortfall” within the next two years

#ukpolitics #housing #polycrisis #nhs #ukstrikes #strike #union

Trying to plan #train travel to UK in February (because #FlyingLess).
Anyone have any idea if #RMT #RailStrikes have been scheduled for February yet and where I might find information - not getting much on a #FWSE?

Also #UKBorderForce strikes? Any further details?

Fully vaccinated against everything so hoping to avoid encounter with #UKNursesStrike... 😬

#UKstrike #UKStrikes #UKRailStrike #UKBorder #UKBorderStrike

If you were cold and wet on a picket line, what veggie soup would you prefer to be offered? #NHSstaff #NHSstrike #nurses #doctors #UKStrikes #soup

What's happening with the various UK strikes? Who's out at the moment? #UKstrikes #tradeunion #UK #strike

If you're tuning into U.K. Politics from elsewhere in the world today, you may notice the Ambulance Workers strike.

You may have seen so many strikes from different unions on different days that you can't keep up with them all.

I'll let you in on a secret. Neither can we. The only way we are getting through December is by carrying these handy calendars around with us, under our bowler hats.

#UKStrikes

We should have a new rule for Prime Ministers in the U.K.

3 Strikes and you're out.

#UKStrikes
#SupportStrike

"I’ve been an official for the GMB for 25 years and I’ve never actually seen this level of public support for a group of striking workers. It just goes to show what high regard all our uniformed services are held in by the public.

We’ve got members of the public dropping off food for our striking members and you can hear the cars honking their horns as they drive past. We know from the polls that public support for this strike is overwhelming."

Stuart Fegan,
GMB.
#UKStrikes
#SupportStrike

Even though I'm stressed about travelling to the UK bang in the middle of all the strikes there, I still support them. Mick Lynch speaks so much sense here -
https://www.doubledown.news/watch/2022/december/16/the-mick-lynch-video-the-government-piers-morgan-doesnt-want-you-to-see
#ukstrikes #micklynch

Unions are calling on the #UKGovernment to negotiate on pay, here’s how it could mediate discussions between employers and unions.

#UKStrikes #Strikes #UKPolitics #TradeUnions #Unions #RMT
https://www.pmp-magazine.com/2022/12/14/uk-strikes-why-the-government-must-start-mediating-talks-according-to-negotiation-experts/

Half of the country is on strike and we’re still asking if people should keep quiet, endure shrinking salaries and poor working conditions not to upset the middle classes going about their lives?

Fuck that.

I will always support people’s right to strike regardless of my life being disrupted by it.

Life is a series of fucking disruptions.

Get used to it.

#ProtectAllWorkers #solidarity
#strike
#UKStrikes

Oh dear, this has to happen, and they don't seem to be on #Mastidon

#UCURising #HigherEducation #UKStrikes