BT workers and Openreach engineers will stage a fresh strike on Thursday in a long-running dispute over pay. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said its members working as 999 emergency
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Labour has pledged to recruit care workers by guaranteeing fair pay, workers’ rights and appropriate training under a National Care Service as it claimed “too many private equity firms are
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Physiotherapy staff across England and Wales will vote on industrial action after overwhelmingly rejecting this year’s NHS pay award. The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) said almost 80% of those
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Almost two-thirds of the public support nurses taking strike action ahead of the upcoming ballot, a poll has found. The YouGov poll, which surveyed 1,752 adults in the UK between
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About one in 10 full-time equivalent posts in the NHS in England were vacant at the end of June, the highest proportion since current records began in 2018, new figures
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The size of Scotland’s social work, social care and early years workforce dropped slightly last year to 208,360 people, a drop of 0.6% on 2020, a new report shows. The
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Nicola Sturgeon has spoken of her Government’s budget limitations as industrial unrest grows amid ongoing pay disputes. Scotland’s First Minister said there is a “real case” for civic mobilisation as
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Criminal barristers in England and Wales have voted in favour of an all-out strike in a row with the Government over jobs and pay. Members of the Criminal Bar Association
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New plans are being considered to recruit foreign workers for the UK’s care homes amid concerns about staff shortages this winter. A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said:
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A care worker who was dismissed because she refused to have a coronavirus vaccine can argue that her reasons were religious, an employment judge has ruled. Patrycja Wierowska worked as
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