United Kingdom Strikes

About 350 Unite members based at the Westbourne Park garage are striking on multiple December dates after rejecting a below‑inflation offer, affecting several key routes.

The BMA has called a five‑day national walkout by resident (junior) doctors in England from 17 to 21 December over pay and jobs.

Unite members employed by multiple subcontractors at the Sellafield nuclear site will strike for a further week over site‑specific allowances and pay parity with other nuclear projects.

UNISON members working as theatre assistants across Leeds Teaching Hospitals are staging a 48‑hour walkout over regrading and back pay, after a 100% Yes ballot. The trust warns services will be unde...

Unite members at BAE Systems’ Warton and Samlesbury sites striking over a rejected 3.6% pay offer.

GMB members at the Lincolnshire frozen food storage site are on a two‑week strike, citing a zero‑percent offer.

UCU members at the University of Nottingham are holding multiple strike days through November and December over proposed job cuts and reorganisation.

UCU members at the University of Sheffield launched a 14‑day strike over threatened redundancies and restructuring. Action spans late November into mid‑December.

UCU members at Imperial College London are striking over a below‑inflation 2% local pay award, with action confirmed on multiple days between 1 and 12 December.

UCU says staff across Capital City College Group (City & Islington, Westminster Kingsway, CONEL) will strike on 10–11 December in a local pay/conditions dispute.

Train drivers at 14 operators will stage targeted 24‑hour walkouts on multiple dates between 2 and 8 December, alongside a 1–9 December overtime ban, disrupting services across England.

Around 320 Unite members at KeolisAmey Metrolink depots plan a three‑day walkout citing unsafe long‑hours rosters and insufficient rest days.

UCU members at Sheffield Hallam University are taking local strike action in December over job cuts and worsening conditions.

UCU members at the University of Derby will strike for three days in early December after voting to oppose compulsory redundancies and course closures.

PCS members at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives will strike for seven days after rejecting a 2–3% pay offer.

RMT cleaners on Docklands Light Railway (Bidvest Noonan contract) will take two 48-hour strikes over company sick pay: 27–28 November and 1–2 December.

Agency refuse workers employed by Job and Talent voted to join Unite’s Birmingham bin dispute from 1 December, citing bullying, harassment and excessive workloads.

More than 120 PCS members who patrol UK waters, including the English Channel, are striking on 1 December over frozen specialist allowances and unresolved changes to terms and conditions.

UNISON and Unite members at TfGM are striking over a below-inflation pay offer, with further dates planned in November.

Unite members at Leonardo UK are striking over a below‑inflation pay offer. Following initial action on 12–13 Nov, further walkouts hit Basildon and Edinburgh from 14–25 Nov, with Yeovil strikin...

PCS members at pensions administrator MyCSP are continuing a prolonged strike over recognition and TUPE consultation, extended to 28 November.

UCU members at Lancaster University will strike over plans to cut around a quarter of staff in some areas.

UCU, UNISON and Unite have called four strike days at Imperial College London in a dispute over the university’s 2% local pay award. Pickets are planned at South Kensington and White City campuses.

Over 300 PCS members in Parliament’s Security Department staged a 24‑hour walkout from 07:00 on 26 Nov to 07:00 on 27 Nov over imposed 12‑hour shifts and loss of rest days/annual leave.

PCS members in the Parliamentary Security Department will strike on 26 November over imposed 12-hour shifts and loss of six days' paid leave/rest days after ACAS mediation failed.

Unite members employed by multiple subcontractors at the Sellafield nuclear site are continuing industrial action for a further two weeks, with slow‑march pickets causing access disruption.

UCU members at the University of Leicester are on discontinuous strike over redundancies and restructuring plans.

BMA resident doctors held a five‑day national walkout from 14–19 November over pay and training; the action concluded at 07:00 on 19 November.

BMA resident doctors in England to stage a five-day walkout from 07:00 on 14 November to 07:00 on 19 November.

PCS members in the Border Force Maritime unit will strike over frozen allowances and unresolved terms and conditions changes.

Unite members employed by contractor Amulet at the Bank of England will strike for 24 hours over a pay freeze.

RMT industrial action at CrossCountry reduces or halts services across the network on named strike days.

Unite refuse workers at Birmingham City Council in an indefinite all-out strike over job cuts and pay; action continues daily.

Unite tanker drivers at Turners (Soham) striking over pay; action impacts fuel deliveries to Glasgow and Edinburgh airports.

Unite members at Bournemouth Airport (baggage handling, check-in, flight dispatching and plane fuelling) announced four strike days after rejecting a pay offer. The airport says it is preparing contin...

UNISON nursing healthcare support workers at County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust took strike action from 07:30 on 2025-09-15 until 07:29 on 2025-09-17 over rebanding/back pay. Emergency an...