Strikes

With hospitality businesses struggling with strikes, the cold weather and the cost of living crisis, we’ve been speaking to Sacha Lord, Night Time Economy Adviser for Greater Manchester, and asked him about the current state of the sector.

Almost all Christmas Eve train services have ground to a halt, with the latest round of RMT rail strikes due to start tonight.

It’s been another day of industrial action affecting transport services.

It’s shaping up to be a winter of discontent for the UK, with a flurry of strikes promising disruption from Post Office counters to trains and air travel. Now it seems even your morning bowl of cereal could be at risk, as Weetabix workers vote to take action too.

Campaigners are demanding a Hillsborough-style public inquiry into Orgreave after the police watchdog said it it would not investigate alleged misconduct by officers.

Midwives in England vote to go on strike for four hours in a bitter dispute with the government over pay. It will be the first walkout in their history.

Dozens of protesters have been arrested in major American cities as they take to the streets for better working conditions. But can they change a country with a strong tradition of free labour market?

More than a million public sector workers strike – but last time, in 2011, the action was more a war of words over the turn-out than one of attrition. It wasn’t like that back in the day…

Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers are on strike around the country. Take our tour of what the situation looks like across the nation: protests, disruption and a socialist choir. #j10

Former Channel 4 News industrial correspondent Ian Ross reports on the response of coalworkers across the country on 12 March 1984, the first day of the 1984 national miners’ strike.

It might not have been at a standstill – but a strike by London Underground staff brings chaos and misery to millions struggling to reach work in the face of shut or very reduced services.

Barristers in England and Wales stage a half-day walkout in protest at government cuts to legal aid, which could leave them paid as little as £20 for a day’s work.

Thousands of police civilian staff in London, as well as firefighters in the capital, are set to strike on New Year’s Eve, the PCS union says.

Pakistan’s foreign office summons the US ambassador and says that the drone strike which killed Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, has caused a serious setback to peace talks with the Taliban.