🔎 All the strikes planned this week, explained by mollyblackall
As part of a wave of winter strikes, industrial action will be carried out by workers at hospitals, on trains and at Royal Mail in the coming days.
Members of Unison, Nipsa and GMB are taking to picket lines at hospitals and healthcare facilitates in an ongoing dispute over pay and conditions. They have criticised “unsafe” staffing levels and warned the system is running on “good will”, and that a £1,400 pay offer for 2022-2023 is not enough.Tuesday will see the first of four days ofDecember, led by the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association and Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers unions.
On Avanti West Coast services just one train per hour is expected to run between London Euston and Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and Preston, and services to Glasgow will be limited. The majority of rail services across the Wales and Borders network will also be suspended on the strike days,, with disruption on parts of the District and Bakerloo lines, as well as the Overground and Elizabeth line during strike days.practical tests – but not theory tests – will be badly disrupted
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