Nurses, ambulance staff, postal workers and more will be walking out in the run-up to Christmas as part of ongoing disputes over working conditions and pay during the cost of living crisis.
“We’ve got to the point where enough is enough”: a nurse tells us why she’s going on strikeEarlier this year, the Royal College of Nursing backed aacross England, Wales and Northern Ireland for the first time in the organisation’s 108 year history. The first day of action fell on 15 December and the second will take place on Tuesday 20 December.
The Royal College of Nursing is calling for a pay rise of 5% above inflation, and has said it will stage further strikes in January if the government does not negotiate with them on this. The NHS pay review body previously recommended that nurses receive around £1,400 more annually.The three main ambulance unions – that’s Unison, GMB and Unite – are set to go on strike on Wednesday 21 December, with the action set to affect non-life-threatening calls only .
over rail workers’ pay, conditions and proposed job cuts, more rail strikes are set to take place over the Christmas break. Last week, RMT members voted to reject Network Rail’s most recent offer, which included a 5% and then 4% pay rise over a two-year period, as the union said it would involve “thousands of job losses, 50% cut in scheduled maintenances tasks and a 30% increase in unsocial hours”.
The union also objects to “widespread changes” to working conditions, including “introducing Uber-style owner-drivers, mail centre closures and changes to Sunday working”.It’s not just rail travel that could be impacted by strike action over the Christmas period: Border Force staff at Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff and Glasgow are set to strike for eight days, between 23 December and 26 December, and then from 28 December to 31 December.
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