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Heathrow Airport security officers are set to strike for 31 days in the latest wave of industrial action. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Heathrow Airport security officers to strike for 31 days this summer

Workers at the Coca Cola plant in Wakefield are set to go on strike for 14 days in June. (Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Coca Cola plant workers announce 14-day strike

A strike could cause problems getting through security at Edinburgh Airport. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Summer travel chaos warning as airport workers balloted over strike action

Strike will continue until close to midnight today May 1.

Nurses strike continues: Major disruption for NHS services in England

Members of Unite have rejected the Government’s pay offer

Security officers at Heathrow airport are set to walk out for a further eight days over a pay dispute in May, Unite has announced. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Security officers at Heathrow airport to walk out for further 8 days

Guests and workers observe the progress on ship one being built at the Rosyth dockyards. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Royal Navy frigates being built in Scotland could be 'significantly delayed'

A sign indicating the start of the security queue during a strike by security workers at London Heathrow Airport in London, UK, on Friday, March 31, 2023. IAG SAsÂ British AirwaysÂ is set to scrap 320 flights during the Easter week as security workers strike for 10-days over pay. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

8 tips to get through security quicker despite airport strikes

British Airways will cancel around 32 flights per day to and from Heathrow over the Easter weekend (Photo: Getty Images)

Heathrow security staff start 10-day strike affecting Easter travels

Around 30 Unite members including able seamen, base assistants, cooks and technicians took part in the ballot.

Scotland’s lighthouse workers to vote on strike action in historical first

North Ronaldsay Lighthouse in the Orkney Islands is one of the 208 lighthouses operated by NLB.

Lighthouse workers vote for strike action in historic first

Passengers travelling from Heathrow Terminal 5 over Easter have been told to expect delays (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

British Airways cancel dozens of Easter flights amid strike action

A pay dispute which saw airports in the Highlands and islands close due to strike action has ended after unions accepted a revised offer.

Airport staff dispute ends after unions accept new pay offer

Dozens of oil and gas platforms in UK waters are set to be brought to a standstill as around 1,400 offshore workers across five companies go on strike to demand a better deal on jobs, pay and conditions - the move comes after energy giants posted record profits

North Sea workers plan ‘tsunami’ of strikes amid oil and gas profits boom

Heathrow workers are to strike over Easter. Credit: Getty Images

Heathrow Airport Easter strike: Staff will walk out for 10 days

Capital Cars has won the bid for Edinburgh Airport

Taxi services from airport now to be provided by private hire company

Drax Group Plc’s power station where workes have voted to go on strike.

UK homes ‘face power cuts’ due to strike action at major station

Deputy First Minister John Swinney gave evidence to the Finance committee in Holyrood.

National Care Service 'sailing perilously close to the wind'

Mural artist Mack Colours PIC: John Devlin / The Scotsman

Video report: Unite mural doffs cap to Glasgow's Calton weavers

Edinburgh-headquartered Tesco Bank was founded in 1997 and has thousands of people working across its main centres in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle and Reigate.

Thousands of Scottish Tesco Bank workers to get £1,250 'cost-of-living' pay rise

Three island airports are closed for the second time this week as workers take strike action in a dispute over pay.

Strikes close airports for second time in a week

Coffinmakers at the Co-op's only manufacturing facility in the UK are taking strike action

Union accuses Co-op of ‘Scrooge-like attitude’ as coffinmaker dispute continues

A group of fraudsters have been posing as ambulance staff and knocking on doors asking for financial support ahead of upcoming industrial action.

Fraudsters posing as ambulance staff seen asking for donations

Rishi Sunak shouldn't negotiate directly with union leaders, but ministers and officials should (Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

Tories must talk to unions over threatened strikes – Scotsman comment

RMT members during a previous strike outside Glasgow Central Station (Picture: John Devlin)

Urgent need to resolve disputes threatening travel disruption – Alastair Dalton

Taxis in Glasgow. Picture: John Devlin

Glasgow Council urged to back bid for hospitality staff to ‘get home safely’

Union bosses have demanded talks with the Scottish Government “as a matter of urgency” as they announced strike action which will hit airports across the highlands and islands in the run-up to Christmas.

Airport workers announce pre-Christmas strike dates

The strikes could disrupt travel across the Highlands and islands.

Airport strikes: Travel across Scotland could be hit by industrial action

Audrey Ferrie, Consultant and licensing expert at Pinsent Masons

Councils back “Get Me Home Safely” campaign - Audrey Ferrie

The GMB trade union said staff at the ambulance service would strike for one day from 6am on Monday November 28.

Scottish Ambulance Service staff set strike date in pay dispute

Ambulance staff are to begin industrial action later this month

Scottish ambulance staff announce work to rule as industrial action begins

Brewdog has styled itself as the "anti-sponsor" of the tournament.

Brewdog accused of being ‘tone deaf’ over ad campaign against Qatar World Cup

Workers on strike outside the Co-op coffin factory in Glasgow. Picture: Rebecca McCurdy/PA Wire

Coffinmakers at Scottish factory kick off week of strike action

Hundreds of offshore workers have accepted a 10% pay deal

Offshore oil and gas worker dispute ends as they accept 10%

Coffin makers at Co-op's only UK factory, situated in Glasgow, are going on strike. Picture: John Devlin

Coffinmakers at Co-op’s only UK factory to go on strike in pay dispute

The St. Fergus site is a Natural Gas Liquids plant.

St Fergus Kaefer contractors in strike ballot

Work in care in Scotland? Unite the Union says: “Get involved in the battle for better pay and conditions now.” Image posed by models

Ad Feature Union launches campaign to protect care workers’ rights

It is the first time in Scotland that Unite has balloted simultaneously across this number of universities.

Staff at 11 Scottish universities to be balloted over strikes

Scottish Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has been told to act on Scotland's NHS or his position will become "untenable".

Union preparing for ‘next big battle’ over NHS pay as crisis deepens

Dockers in Liverpool will walk out from Monday evening for two weeks

Liverpool's dockers are the latest to strike for better pay

Glasgow's waste workers clearing mountains of rubbish as they return to work following several days of industrial action.

Nicola Sturgeon council strike talks with unions end without a deal

Nicola Sturgeon. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/PA Wire

Nicola Sturgeon personally intervenes in talks aimed at ending council strikes

Waste workers in authorities across Scotland will return to work on Thursday as the first wave of strike action ends.

Waste workers to return to work as first wave of strikes to end

While primaries in Glasgow are to be closed, the secondaries will remain open.

Glasgow school strikes: Keeping secondary schools open 'abhorrent' says union

Edinburgh will be clean by next week, says council leader

A new offer has been made to Scottish council cleansing staff in a bid to halt ongoing strike action.

Bins strikes to continue and schools set to shut as latest pay offer rejected

Tens of thousands of appeals will be “severely delayed” when staff at an exams body take strike action next month, a union has warned.

SQA staff strike will severely delay exam appeals process, union warns

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar and deputy UK Labour leader Angela Rayner met with Unite to discuss the campaign.

Anas Sarwar backs Get Me Home Safely campaign

Bin strikes across Scottish local authorities will go ahead this week despite a new pay offer being made.

Bin strikes to go ahead across Scotland as more waste workers walk out

Strikes are set to hit schools across Scotland next month.

School staff set to walk out as bin strikes spread across Scotland

Felixstowe is the biggest and busiest container port in the UK. Picture: Joe Giddens/PA Wire

Why Felixstowe strike leaves Scottish supply chains exposed

Rubbish has been piling up in streets around Edinburgh since the strike action began.

Unions to consider revised Cosla offer as rubbish mounts on streets of Edinburgh

ADL bosses have responded after workers at the plant in Glasgow Road, Camelon have voted to strike over pay

ADL bosses reacts to strike vote after workers reject four per cent pay offer

Around 400 workers who are members of the union Unite have voted to strike over a pay offer. Pic: Michael Gillen

Workers at ADL in Falkirk vote to strike over 'pitiful' pay offer

Unite’s Aberdeenshire members will strike this week.

Unite rejects ‘paltry’ COSLA pay offer as waste strikes set to start

Up to 10,000 civil servants will be covered by the strike. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA.

Scottish civil servants to ballot for strike action in pay dispute

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