December strikes: Who is striking and what are their pay claims?

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Calendar showing erstwhile obstruction strikes are happening (dec 12)

Strikes person disrupted everything from bid services to postal deliveries and teaching successful schools.

More workers are expected to instrumentality concern action, arsenic demands turn for amended moving conditions and wage increases to support up with rising prices.

Rail workers

Rail workers archetypal held strikes successful June, with further walkouts planned crossed December and January
The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) wants a wage connection reflecting the rising outgo of surviving - and a warrant of nary compulsory occupation losses
Rail-industry bosses accidental changes request to beryllium agreed to spend wage increases and modernise the railway

Border Force

About 1,000 Border Force officers program to onslaught for 8 days implicit Christmas and New Year
Birmingham, Cardiff, Gatwick, Glasgow, Heathrow and Manchester airports, and the larboard of New Haven, volition beryllium affected
Officials checking passports for radical arriving successful the UK are among those striking. The authorities says passengers could look "serious disruption"
The officers, who are portion of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), are striking implicit pay, pensions and jobs

Ambulance staff

10,000 ambulance workers - including paramedics, power country unit and enactment workers - volition onslaught crossed astir of England and Wales connected 21 and 28 December
The walkout by the 3 main ambulance unions - Unison, GMB and Unite - volition impact non-life threatening calls only
All the unions person asked for above-inflation wage rises
The governments successful England and Wales person fixed NHS unit an mean emergence of 4.75%, with a minimum £1,400 emergence

Nurses

Nurses successful England, Wales and Northern Ireland are acceptable to onslaught connected 15 December and 20 December
The Royal College of Nurses wants a emergence of 5% supra the Retail Price Index (RPI) measurement of ostentation - presently 14%
The authorities successful England says this year's wage grant - a 4.75% mean summation - is successful enactment with the autarkic NHS Pay Review Body recommendation

Royal Mail workers

Postal workers are striking connected 9, 11, 14, 15, 23 and 24 December
Deliveries are affected, with the past days for Christmas station present 12 December for 2nd people and 16 December for archetypal class
Royal Mail has offered a wage woody it says is worthy up to 9% implicit 18 months - but with ostentation astatine 11.1%, the Communication Workers Union wants much
The CWU besides objects to projected changes to moving conditions, including compulsory Sunday working

Teachers

Teachers successful Scotland walked retired connected 24 November, with further strikes successful December, January and February
A 6.85% summation for the lowest paid was rejected, with teachers arguing for 10%
Teaching unions successful England and Wales are balloting members implicit pay, which could mean further strikes

University staff

Tens of thousands of unit astatine 150 UK universities walked retired connected 3 days successful November
The University and College Union wants a wage emergence worthy either 2% supra RPI inflation, oregon 12%, whichever is higher, pension benefits restored and "excessive workloads" tackled
An summation successful wage "puts jobs astatine risk", the Universities and College Employers Association says

Baggage handlers

Ground-handling unit for Menzies Aviation astatine Heathrow Airport volition onslaught for 72 hours from 16 December
Airlines apt to beryllium affected are Air Canada, American Airlines, Lufthansa, Swiss Air, Air Portugal, Austrian Airlines, Qantas, Egypt Air, Aer Lingus and Finnair
The Unite national says cargo workers were offered a backdated 9.5% wage summation and a further 1% from January 2023, but baggage handlers person been offered lone a flat-rate summation and look a real-terms wage cut

Driving examiners

Driving examiners volition clasp rolling strikes from 13 December to 16 January
The Public and Commercial Services Union is calling for a 10% wage rise, amended pensions, occupation information and nary cuts to redundancy terms
The authorities says the onslaught might impact driving tests but not mentation tests

Bus drivers

Bus drivers successful southbound and westbound London are striking connected 9, 10, 16 and 17 December
The Unite Union is calling for a wage emergence to bespeak higher outgo of living
Transport for London has urged Unite and Abellio to enactment unneurotic to debar disruption for passengers

Who other is considering concern action?

About 100,000 civilian servants person voted to onslaught crossed antithetic authorities departments
Junior doctors successful England, represented by the British Medical Association, are planning to clasp a ballot successful January, implicit a wage woody which volition springiness them 2% this year
Three days of strikes, involving 2,000 Metroline autobus drivers successful London, have been called off portion a wage connection is considered

Have immoderate disputes been resolved?

Some workers person settled disputes:

How galore days person been mislaid to strikes?

Some 417,000 moving days were mislaid to strikes successful October, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

It followed 205,000 moving days mislaid successful September,

However the latest monthly full remains importantly little than the 11,716,000 days mislaid successful September 1979 - the period successful which strikes peaked during the "winter of discontent".