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UK industrial action: What strikes are coming up?
The UK has been hit by a barrage of industrial action as nurses, teachers, rail workers, university staff, junior doctors and ambulance staff strike in bitter disputes over pay and conditions.
The UK has been hit by a barrage of industrial action as nurses, teachers, rail workers, university staff, junior doctors and ambulance staff strike in bitter disputes over pay and conditions.
We are becoming all too familiar with strikes impacting our everyday lives, and it’s now time to consider how upcoming industrial action could also throw your holiday plans into disarray.
French President Emmanuel Macron summoned government ministers for a crisis meeting on Monday, as tensions ran high a day before another major round of strikes and protests against his pension reforms.Nearly two weeks after Macron rammed the new law through parliament using a special provision sidestepping any vote, unions have vowed no let-up in mass protests to get the government to back down.They have called for another big day of action on Tuesday, the 10th such mobilisation since protests started in mid-January against the controversial law, which includes raising the retirement age to 64 from 62.Macron, whose approval ratings in opinion polls are at a low point, said last week he accepted the "unpopularity" that came with the reform.Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, meanwhile, said that while there was no plan to drop the legislation, she was ready for fresh dialogue with unions."We have to find the right path... We need to calm down," she told AFP in an interview on Sunday.Starting Monday, Borne has scheduled talks over three weeks, including with members of parliament, political parties, local authorities and unions.A state visit to France by Britain's King Charles III, which had been due to begin on Sunday, was postponed because of the unrest.- 'Very big move' -Instead of hosting King Charles for a day of pomp and ceremony, Macron instead met Borne, other cabinet ministers and senior lawmakers for the crisis talks at the Elysee Palace, the presidency said. Borne presented the plan for consultations to the president at Monday's meeting and was then expected to take it to Macron's allies and cabinet members, presidential sources said.If unions accept her offer for talks, Borne is expected to put new measures on the table designed to ease the impact of the pensions law targeting physically demanding jobs, conditions for older workers and retraining.But early reactions were not promising for the prime minister.Laurent Berger, the head of the moderate CFDT union, who has taken an unexpectedly hard line against the pension reform, said he would accept the offer of talks but only if the reform was first "put to one side".Berger called on the government to come up with a "very big move on pensions".Left-wing firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon said on Sunday that there was "a very simple way" to return to peaceful relations, and that was "to withdraw the law".The protest movement against the pension reform has turned into the biggest domestic crisis of Macron's second mandate, with police and protesters clashing regularly in Paris and other cities since the reform was forced through.- 'Highly disrupted' -Last Thursday, the previous major protest day, police reported 457 arrests across France and injuries to 441 police officers.Government spokesman Olivier Veran called Melenchon and his party "profiteers of anger", while Green party lawmaker Sandrine Rousseau accused Macron and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin of stoking the unrest.According to Paris mass transit operator RATP, metros and suburban trains will be "highly disrupted" on Tuesday.Rubbish collectors in the capital are continuing their strike, with close to 8,000 tonnes of garbage piled up in the streets as of Sunday.Adding to the waste treatment blockage, workers at an incineration plant just outside Paris stopped work on Monday. France's civil aviation authority has told airlines at Orly airport in Paris, as well as the Marseille, Bordeaux and Toulouse airports, to cancel 20 percent of flights for Tuesday and Wednesday.Some 15 percent of service stations in France are short of petrol because us refinery strikes, while workers at a nuclear power plant in southwestern France stopped a rector and limited access for crews.The Louvre in Paris, the world's most visited museum, was closed on Monday because of labour action.About a third of primary school teachers were expected to go on strike Tuesday. French police have meanwhile come under severe criticism for heavy-handed tactics during recent demonstrations.The Council of Europe said on Friday that peaceful protesters and journalists had to be protected from police violence and arbitrary arrest.On Sunday the IGPN, the internal affairs unit of the French police, said it had launched 17 investigations into incidents since the protests began.burs-jh/sjw/giv
National Education Union to recommend members reject offer of 4.3% rise and £1,000 one-off payment
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Almost 280,000 nurses in England will vote on whether to accept or reject the government's NHS pay offer from today. Following six days of strike action since mid-December, negotiations were held between the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), along with other unions, and health ministers in late February and early March. The government subsequently made a pay offer on 16 March.
Union tells teachers to reject ‘insulting’ pay offer and PCS announces major industrial action
STORY: Airports, train stations and bus stations across Germany were at a standstill on Monday (March 27).Millions of commuters and travelers were disrupted during one of the country’s largest strikes in decades. The 24-hour walkout was called by the Verdi trade union and railway and transport union EVG.The labor organizations represent more than 2.7 million employees collectively. It all marks the latest in months of industrial action throughout major European economies, as higher food and energy prices dent living standards.Two of the country's largest airports, Munich and Frankfurt, suspended flights.And long-distance rail services were cancelled by German rail operator Deutsche Bahn.Achim Stauss is a spokesperson for the rail company: “We called on the EVG union to quickly return to the negotiating table. Today’s strike is very irritating and so is the fact that they are willing to negotiate with us only in five weeks. A solution to this wage dispute can only be achieved at the negotiating table. We put an offer on the table and obviously, the demands are still far apart but it’s the nature of wage negotiations to come closer together but this doesn’t work on the street or at the train station but at the negotiation table.”According to newspaper Bild am Sonntag, the head of Verdi said the action was a matter of survival for millions of workers amid high inflation.German consumer prices rose more than anticipated in February - up 9.3% from a year earlier.Even as the European Central Bank has been trying to tame cost pressures with a series of interest-rate increases.The EVG chairman reportedly told newspapers on Monday that employers had not yet made a viable offer.And warned that further strikes were possible, including over the upcoming Easter holiday period.
Transport services across the country have ground to a halt
LONDON (Reuters) -The National Education Union (NEU) on Monday recommended that its members in England reject a government pay offer of a one-off payment this year of 1,000 pounds ($1,227) and an average pay rise of 4.5% in the next financial year. Teachers have been involved in strike action this year that has left classrooms empty for several days and heaped pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to resolve the dispute. The NEU, Britain's largest education union, has said it wants an above-inflation pay rise to prevent further disruptive strike action by hundreds of thousands of teachers.
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Union bosses described the strike as a ‘matter of survival’ for workers
* Airports and bus and train stations across Germany were at a standstill on Monday, causing disruption for millions at the start of the working week during one of the largest walkouts in decades as Europe's biggest economy reels from inflation. * Employees are pressing for higher wages to blunt the effects of inflation, which reached 9.3% in February. * Germany, which was heavily dependent on Russia for gas before the war in Ukraine, has been particularly hard hit by higher prices as it scrambled for new energy sources, with inflation rates exceeding the euro-area average in recent months.
Here is everything you need to know about the latest strike action across the UK.
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(Bloomberg) -- The UK has taken a step toward ending months of public sector strikes after the head of an education union said it would consider a new pay offer for teachers and other school staff in England.Most Read from BloombergFBI Releases Files on Ivana TrumpSchwab’s $7 Trillion Empire Built on Low Rates Is Showing CracksBanks in France Face More Than $1.1 Billion Fines After RaidsMarkets Are Wrong on US Rate-Cut Bets, BlackRock SaysBinance and Its CEO Sued by CFTC Over US Regulatory Viola
The walkout is the latest in an ongoing dispute over pay, pensions and job security
The National Association of Head Teachers could move to a formal industrial action ballot if members turn down Government’s offer.