Manchester Metrolink strikes called off after new pay deal secured

Unite members working for Manchester’s Metrolink tram system are celebrating a new pay deal after accepting an improved offer from their employer. Proposed strikes that were due to take place later this week have now been called off. Hundreds of workers are set to receive a substantial pay rise, with Customer service representatives at the […]

Metrolink strikes to bring “summer standstill” to Manchester

Manchester is facing a summer of standstill as workers on the city’s tram system, Metrolink, are to strike following a woeful pay offer. Over 600 members of Unite, the UK’s leading union, are angry after Metrolink was only prepared to make a pay offer of a 4.5 per cent increase in 2024 despite years of […]

London buses dispute escalates as hundreds more workers ballot for strikes

More than 300 London Transit staff are being balloted for industrial action, bringing the total number of RATP bus workers poised to strike to over 2,100. The London Transit drivers and engineers, who are based at Westbourne Park bus garage in Notting Hill, are angry at a three per cent pay offer that represents a […]

London brace itself for bus strikes as 1,600 London United drivers ballot

Around 1,600 London United bus drivers are being balloted for strike action over pay and other issues, Unite, the UK’s leading union, said today. The drivers, based at seven garages providing services across South, West and Central London, are in dispute over pay and other issues. They have rejected a four per cent pay offer, […]

London faces possible bus strike

Public transport users in London face more disruption as bus personnel may join their tube and train counterparts in strike action. London’s financial paper City AM reports the union Unite has warned of potential strike action across the capital’s bus network after TfL proposed to cut or change 78 of the current 620 routes. Unite […]