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PCS announces one-day strike of 100,000 civil servants
‘We warned the government our dispute would escalate if they did not listen’
HMRC failed to collect £42bn in UK tax last year, MPs say
“The eye-watering £42bn now owed to HMRC in unpaid taxes would have filled a lot of this year’s infamous public spending black hole”
Unions plan ‘day of action’ to fight for the right to strike
Trade unions to hold national ‘protect the right to strike’ day as anger over the government’s anti-strike bill escalates.
Mick Lynch makes Tory MP look utterly clueless during questions at Select Committee
“What about the days when we’re not on strike, when it’s absolutely useless as well?”.
Unions call out ‘mistruths’ over ambulance minimum service levels
Union representatives label Grant Shapps claim that ambulance minimum safety levels were not being met on strike days as ‘seriously misleading’.
‘They’ve gone from clapping the nurses to sacking the nurses’, Sunak roasted at PMQs by Keir Starmer
“The simple truth is you can’t legislate your way out of 13 years of failure.”
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The biggest ambulance strike so far as thousands of workers walk out over pay and conditions
25,000 ambulance workers represented by the unions GMB and UNISON will go on strike over a 24-hour period in response to low pay and indecent working conditions.
Angela Rayner eviscerates Tory anti-strike bill in the House of Commons
“How he goes on with one breath thanking nurses to sacking nurses”
Grant Shapps photoshops Boris Johnson out of his picture
“If only we could do the same with the past decade of British politics.”