![]() Thousands of workers from the Met Office, Health and Safety Executive, Intellectual Property Office, Animal and Plant Health Agency, Natural England and UK Research and Innovation are on strike today. Members of the Transport Salaried Staffs Association will strike on May 24 and ban overtime from May 27 to June 4. Workers on London's Elizabeth Line will take industrial action later this month on the first anniversary of its opening, in a long-running dispute over pay. The latest 48-hour strike action will hit oil and gas operators including Apache, BP, Harbour Energy, Enquest, Ithaca, Repsol, Shell and TAQA. Unite has confirmed that around 1,200 contractors will strike from today until Friday in an increasingly bitter dispute over jobs, pay and conditions in the offshore sector. Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) working in TV, online and radio at BBC Local (England) voted by 56 per cent against plans put forward by the corporation. The union said a yes vote would give it a mandate to strike in every NHS Trust in England where RCN members are employed.īBC journalists will resume a work-to-rule and look set to announce strikes after rejecting plans aimed at resolving a row over cuts to local services. The new ballot will be aggregated, meaning the union is seeking a country-wide mandate. Voting of RCN members in England will open on May 23 and close on June 23. The Royal College of Nursing has announced the dates of a new ballot for strike action in its long-running dispute over pay. 'For months we have been pressing ministers to put forward a serious offer that recognises the cost of living crisis facing our members, but instead of coming to the negotiating table, the Government has published a pay control of 4.5 per cent for 2023-24 - with nothing on the table for last year. 'Why is this Government treating its employees worse than anyone else in the public sector? Mike Clancy, general secretary of Prospect, said: 'Our members working across the civil service provide a vital service to the country, but they are being singled out by a government intent on leaving its own workers at the back of the pay queue. Prospect represents tens of thousands of specialist, technical, professional, managerial and scientific staff, working at a wide range of employers, including the Met Office, Health and Safety Executive, Intellectual Property Office, Animal and Plant Health Agency, Natural England and UK Research and Innovation. ![]() Prospect union members are pictured during industrial action in March Thousands of civil servants are set to go on strike today as the union representing workers a the Met Office, Natural England and HSE launch a fresh wave of walkouts in the long-running dispute over pay, jobs and redundancy terms.
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