United Kingdom industrial disputes and strikes (2022–present)

Mick Lynch, General Secretary of the RMT said the decision "sends a clear message that members want a decent pay rise, job security and no compulsory redundancies".

[30] On 8 November, it was confirmed that members of the RMNT Would vote on a revised pay offer and guarantee of job security that would end the strike action if accepted.

[55] On 16 August 2024, ASLEF announced that its members at LNER would stage strikes every weekend through September and October, as well as two in November, following what it describes as a break down in industrial relations and agreements.

[62] On 22 June, it was reported that members of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) had voted to accept a 7.1% pay rise following an ongoing dispute with Merseyrail which had led to strike action.

[73] On 23 June 2022, it was announced that 700 staff at Heathrow Airport who belong to the GMB and Unite unions had voted to hold strike action during the summer holidays, when the number of overseas travellers was expected to be at pre-pandemic levels.

[80] On 22 March, the Public and Commercial Services Union announced that its members working as UK Border Force employees at Heathrow Airport had voted to strike over shift patterns.

[100] On 4 September, and following last-minute talks between union representatives and Stagecoach, the planned strike action was suspended for a week to give Unite members time to consider a new pay offer.

[107] On 22 November 2023, the GMB, Unite and SIPTU trade unions, who represent workers at Northern Ireland's Translink bus and rail services, called a one day strike for 1 December.

[112] On 12 March, Unite, GMB and Siptu announced that their members had "decisively voted to reject" the pay offer from Translink, which was worth 5%, together with a one-off payment of £1,500 for the 2023–24 financial year.

[125] On 27 June, it was announced that members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) at 114 Crown Post Offices, the largest branches typically on a high street or city centre, would walk out on 11 July in an ongoing dispute over pay.

[12] On 28 September, the Communication Workers Union announced a further 19 days of strikes through October and November 2022, with industrial action targeted to affect peak periods of postal service usage, including Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

[131] On 31 October, the CWU announced plans to meet the following day to discuss further strike action after rejecting a 7% pay deal over two years that was subject to postal workers agreeing to changes such as Sunday working and start times.

[137] On 28 June, GPs at the Annual General Meeting of the British Medical Association voted to take industrial action over new contracts requiring them to work on weekday evenings and Saturdays.

[166] On 9 July, and a few days after Labour won the 2024 general election, new Health Secretary Wes Streeting began talks with junior doctors in England aimed at ending their pay dispute.

[173] On 1 August 2024, it was announced that GPs in England had voted to take industrial action by working-to-rule over a lack of funding and a decline in care, which could see GP appointments capped at 25 per day.

[184] On 29 November 2024, GP leaders in Scotland voted in favour of a motion to ballot workers on industrial action over pay, following what they described as "years of disinvestment in general practice".

[197] On 17 November, the RCN warned the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Steve Barclay, that the Government had five days to open formal negotiations, or strikes would be announced for December 2022.

[201] On 16 February, the Royal College of Nursing announced a 48-hour strike to begin on 1 March, which it said would be the biggest in England so far, with half of hospital, mental health and community services affected.

[204] During an appearance on the 16 April edition of BBC One's political programme Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Pat Cullen, the General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, suggested any new strike action could last until the end of the year, and urged the government to resume negotiations.

[263] On 20 March, members of three teaching unions – NASUWT, INTO and NAHT – voted to accept a pay offer proposed by Education Minister Paul Givan that included increasing the starting salary of a teacher from £24,000 to £30,000.

[264] In Scotland, non-teaching staff in 11 council areas were scheduled to stage a three-day strike in early September, but this was called off after the Unison, Unite and GMB unions agreed a pay deal.

[293] On 18 August, and following a pay dispute with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA), refuse workers belonging to the Unison, Unite and GMB trade unions launched industrial action in Edinburgh.

[300] On 17 July, it was announced that members of Unison at 14 Scottish council areas, including Glasgow, Perth and Kinross and Dumfries and Galloway, had voted to take industrial action after describing a pay offer from Cosla as "inadequate".

[315] Following a government offer of a 4.5% pay rise for civil servants (with an extra 0.5% for lower paid employees), the Prospect trade union announced on 14 April 2023 that two strikes would be staged on 10 May and 7 June.

[321] A third wave of two-day strike action planned for July 2022 was paused, after Unite announced it was exploring options with the regulator to secure a route to union recognition.

However, this was not to materialise, and on 7 December, Unite called on the FCA to have a staff-led action plan, which includes recognising the union, changes to performance and health benefit contributions scaled to pay.

[330] On 9 March 2023, the National Union of Journalists announced plans to hold a strike ballot among staff at Northern Ireland's BBC Radio Foyle following a management decision to implement schedule changes, which included replacing the two hour morning programme with a 30-minute version.

[365] On 11 April 2024, steelworkers belonging to the Unite union voted to take industrial action over Tata Steel's UK restructuring plans, which would see the loss of 3,000 jobs at its Port Talbot and Llanwern sites.

Also in October 2022, the TUC stated millions of key workers helped the UK manage the worst of the Covid pandemic, but had the prospect of another year of "pay misery" due to the government, as the cost of living rose.

In February 2022, the TUC urged Jeremy Hunt to use the revenue to offer higher pay rises to public sector workers to end strike deadlock.