industrial action
Coverage of industrial action in the Nexus archive.
- Excessive probation workloads put public at risk in England and Wales, union warns
Napo, a probation officers' union in England and Wales, warns that excessive workloads are putting the public at risk due to unsupervised ex-offenders. The union has declared no confidence in probation service managers and threatened industrial action as ministers prepare to release more prisoners this autumn.
- City & Guilds faces legal and industrial action over plans to cut hundreds of jobs
City & Guilds is facing potential legal and industrial action over claims of dishonesty in its plan to cut around 400 UK jobs. The Unite union alleges the organization is withholding key information during consultations and violating redundancy laws by advertising new roles while staff are at risk.
- ‘Standing up for our children’: parents divided over London teachers’ strikes
Parents in London are divided over teachers' strikes in Waltham Forest, with schools like South Grove Primary closing due to industrial action by the National Education Union (NEU). The strikes, part of broader labor disputes in the borough, highlight tensions between educators and parents.