Another strike is planned for November 30. The strike is the biggest in the history of British higher education, affecting over 2.5 million students, according to the University and College Union, which organized the strike. Strikes sweep Britain as soaring inflation savages living standards NUJ members voted to reject a 3% pay offer from the company. The National Union of Journalists says an estimated 1,150 members working for Reach plc titles have begun the first of four days of strike action in a bid to secure an increase in salary. NUJ members across Reach titles include those at the Daily Mirror, Daily Express and Manchester Evening News. Staff working for Reach PLC stand on the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) picket line at Canary Wharf in London Docklands, on 31st August 2022. “Customers should expect delays to items posted just before, during or just after strike action,” Royal Mail said in a statement. Postal workers are planning further strike action for November 30 and December 1, following walkouts in August and September. (EBAY) UK general manager, Martin McTague, chair of the Federation of Small Businesses, and Michelle Ovens, founder of campaign group Small Business Britain. Small businesses in particular are suffering “enormous damage” as a result of the postal strikes, as they “rely on an efficient mail service for so much of their trade,” according to a statement posted to LinkedIn and signed by Murray Lambell, eBay Strike action by as many as 115,000 Royal Mail staff on Thursday and Friday threatens to disrupt Black Friday sales and deliveries at a crucial time of the year for retailers.
Workers are demanding better pay and working conditions as they struggle with soaring food and energy bills. Some 235,000 workers have gone on strike across the United Kingdom this week, encompassing schools, universities and the postal service.
Now, the annual shopping bonanza faces an additional threat from strikes that could disrupt deliveries, subdue online sales and deliver another blow to the slumping economy. Brisbane came to a standstill.Britain’s cost-of-living crisis is already taking the shine off Black Friday. On the day after the sackings, 25,000 workers marched through the streets of the city in solidarity. If the Tramways Company could get away with firing its workers for simply being a part of their union, then who knew which employer would try to do the same thing next? The strike soon extended far beyond the tramways as union after union pledged its support for the sacked workers. In response, unionists received the sack, leading to the strike.Ī song penned by the workers during the dispute summed up their feelings: They took coordinated action at 12noon on 18 January, making sure they displayed their union badges with pride. It banned workers wearing union badges because it wanted to drive the union out of the industry. The Brisbane Tramways Company was notoriously anti-union. That’s what happened to Brisbane’s tramway workers in January 1912, leading one of the largest strikes Australia had seen. Can you imagine being fired from your job simply for wearing a union badge?
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