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Welfare cuts

Collecting signatures in Wigan 1st May asking Government to Withdraw cuts to PiPs and drop the Green Paper

Campaign against disability cuts

Some of the Bee Network's supporting facilities could be affected by industrial action

Buses will keep running when staff go on strike

We Are With You staff protested outside a full meeting of Wigan Council

Drug and alcohol support workers to continue strike action

The Wigan picket line

Drug and alcohol workers stage new walk-out

Staff at the charity We Are With You during their previous strike over pay earlier this month. The drug and alcohol recovery workers, based at Kennedy House in Leigh and the Coops Building in Wigan, are taking action over their employer's failure to offer a satisfactory pay award

Drug and alcohol workers plan new strike

Unison members on the picket line outside Coops Building in Wigan as We Are With You staff take strike action

Charity staff walk out in dispute over pay

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Wigan and Leigh drug and alcohol support workers to strike over pay

UNISON members say they wish to end pension poverty

Council retired UNISON members 'fight for the end of pension poverty'

Councils are battling to fill hundreds of vacancies for adult and children social worker roles, and to recruit and retain carers

Social care agency staff spend for GM tops £123m in THREE YEARS

School support workers, cleaning staff and janitors are currently on strike in Scotland as the Unison union remains locked in a pay dispute with education chiefs. (Credit: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Breaking Scottish school support staff stage strike in pay dispute

Breaking Nurses to vote on England-wide strikes after rejecting 5% pay rise

International Day of the Midwife falls on Friday, 5 May in 202

Happy International Day of the Midwife 2023: How to get involved

Members of the Royal College of Nursing union could strike until Christmas if no deal is reached with the government over pay. (Photo by Hesther Ng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Breaking Royal College of Nursing warns of more strikes

Royal College of Nurses members, campaigning for fair pay and conditions, pictured previously taking part in industrial action at Altnagelvin Hospital. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2250GS - 38

Breaking RCN rejects Government’s pay offer - new 48 hour strike to go ahead

MP Julie Elliott alongside paramedics on the picket line outside Sunderland Ambulance station.

Breaking NHS Unison members accept pay deal offer in England
Nearly three quarters of Unison members have accepted the government’s pay offer for health workers in England.
Rahmah Ghazali

Nursing strikes 2023: Royal College of Nursing, the GMB & Unison back new pay offer - but it’s not over yet

Breaking Nursing strikes 2023: Unions back pay offer - but it’s not over yet

Speeches were given during the meeting at Little Fifteen

Impassioned speeches by trade union leaders as members gather in Wigan

Staff from North West Ambulance Service on a picket line outside Wigan Community Fire and Ambulance Station in January

North West Ambulance Service bosses prepare for more strike action by staff

National ambulance and NHS trade unions have announced a day of strike action to take place tomorrow.

NHS advise when to use 999 as ambulance driver strikes begin today

Nearly a quarter of Wigan's ambulance patients waited for at least an hour

Nearly a quarter of ambulance patients waited more than an hour at hospitals

Christina McAnea, general secretary of UNISON, poses with ambulance workers at a picket line outside the Waterloo ambulance station in London on December 21, 2022. - Striking UK ambulance workers took to the picket lines, escalating a dispute with the government over its refusal to increase pay above inflation after recent walkouts by nurses. (Photo by Niklas HALLE’N / AFP) (Photo by NIKLAS HALLE’N/AFP via Getty Images)

Ambulance workers in England announce two new strike dates

List of all the strikes taking place in the lead up to Christmas 2022

North West Ambulance Service urged the public to call 999 only in life-threatening situations as strike action loomed

Ambulance service pleas for 999 calls only in 'life-threatening emergencies'

There are concerns for pensioners' finances over the coming months

Wigan trade union members call for "parity not poverty" for pensioners

Army staff helped operate ambulance services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

1,200 troops to cover for striking ambulance & Border Force staff

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
A group of fraudsters have been posing as ambulance staff and knocking on doors asking for financial support ahead of upcoming industrial action.
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Staff at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield are on strike (Photo credit OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Wakefield’s National Coal Mining Museum staff to strike over pay

Exam board staff are striking again this week, affecting GCSE results day. Image: Ben Mullins on Unsplash

Exam board staff will strike this week on GCSE results day

A strike could bring huge parts of the railway network to a standstill

Wigan trade union members back railway workers set to strike

Retired members Shirley Skinley and Joan Harrison on the picket line in 2020

Wigan pensioners demand action to tackle cost of living crisis

The trust runs hospital sites including Wigan Infirmary

Wigan healthcare workers get £150 cash boost in time for Christmas

Frontline services are calling for more funding

Wigan in emergency worker crisis

Care home staff must be fully vaccinated from tomorrow

Covid jab deadline looms on unvaccinated care staff in Wigan

Rishi Sunak to end public sector pay freeze in Autumn Budget: what that means fo...

Unison has urged ministers to abandon the “draconian” no jab, no job policy (Photo: Getty Images)

Mandatory jab deadline for carers risks ‘catastrophic’ staff shortages

Wigan Infirmary

Progress in pay dispute involving healthcare assistants at Wigan's hospitals

A Nurse with a placard outside the Royal College of Nursingin Victoria Tower Gardens, London

NHS staff in England will get 3% pay rise after day of confusion

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Trade union calls for masks in schools

Pupils wearing face coverings in school. Photo by Getty Images

Trade union calls for secondary schools to reintroduce face coverings for pupils

One in six Wigan care home workers have not had their first Covid jab

One in six care home workers in Wigan have not had first Covid jab

The Government has said early years settings should remain open to all children

Some nurseries to partially close due to safety fears

There has been a large rise in staff sickness at Wigan hospitals due to stress and anxiety

Huge rise in anxiety amongst NHS staff at Wigan's hospitals

A school pupil being given a meal

Trade union in dispute with school meals company over cuts

Wigan Town Hall

Unison v Wigan Council in pay showdown

A pupil receiving a school meal

Trade union's anger over cuts at catering firm working in Wigan schools

We Are With You staff on the picket line

Drug and alcohol rehab workers in Wigan and Leigh are now on strike – here’s why

A striker outside the Coops building in Dorning Street

Wigan drug and alcohol rehab workers are back on the picket line

Workers on the picket line earlier in the dispute

Rehab workers to go on 10-day strike in long-running pay and dispute

A school pupil wearing a face mask on a bus

Union's concerns over regional PPE stocks for schools

Support workers on the picket line

Wigan drug and alcohol rehab workers vote for strike action again

Rehab workers on the picket line in February

Rehab workers prepare to resume strike action in long-running pay dispute

Paul Almond, who works for We Are With You

Drug and alcohol worker speaks about rehab service changes during lockdown

A nurse wearing PPE carrying out a home visit

Isolating Wigan care workers to receive full sick pay

Wigan Council will allow expanded pupil numbers from Monday

Unison disappointment at many Wigan schools 'failing' to share coronavirus risk ...

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