Nearly 1.7 million mostly public sector workers are being balloted on or have voted for stoppages
Rail passengers narrowly escaped fresh disruption this weekend as unions suspended three days of strikes – but over the coming weeks and months, Rishi Sunak’s government is still facing the most significant wave of industrial action since the 1980s miners’ strike.
The biggest nursing strike in NHS history is set to take place before Christmas, with a large majority of the Royal College of Nursing’s 300,000 members expected to approve industrial action when the results of the nationwide ballot are disclosed next week.
