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By Zoe Conway
Employment correspondent
Christmas whitethorn beryllium precise adjacent but erstwhile it comes to strikes bully tidings are successful abbreviated supply.
On Thursday nurses volition locomotion retired successful England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The proposal is this: if you haven't heard your assignment is cancelled, presume it's going ahead. There's nary request to telephone your section infirmary to check.
Rail workers are not striking contiguous but cheque earlier you travel. Disruption from today's strikes mean services volition commencement aboriginal and, successful immoderate places, decorativeness earlier.
This is my latest onslaught briefing, with tons of utile accusation connected what is happening - and however it mightiness impact you.
Nurses connected strike
Across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, nurses from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) national are walking out.
The onslaught volition impact unit successful astir a 4th of hospitals and assemblage teams successful England, each wellness boards successful Northern Ireland and each but 1 successful Wales (the Aneurin Bevan successful south-east Wales).
Under commercialized national laws, life-preserving attraction has to beryllium provided - truthful each nursing unit are expected to enactment successful services specified arsenic intensive and exigency care.
But the enactment volition impact regular services, specified arsenic planned operations similar genu and hep replacements, territory nursing - and intelligence wellness care.
Each infirmary spot has been negotiating with section national representatives astir what attraction should beryllium provided - truthful the level of attraction volition vary.
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The RCN is calling for nurses to beryllium fixed a wage rise that's 5% supra the Retail Price Index (RPI) ostentation rate, against which wage increases are often judged.
NHS unit in England and Wales, including nurses, person been awarded an mean summation of 4.75%.
In Northern Ireland, NHS unit are to get a akin increase - backdated to April. Health assemblage workers successful NI - members of Unison, Nipsa and GMB - have already been striking this week implicit wage and conditions. In Scotland, RCN members are not striking connected Thursday. They are considering an updated wage connection from the Scottish authorities - an mean 7.5% summation - which has already been accepted by members of the Unite and Unison unions.
Another time of nary Christmas cards
The 48-hour onslaught astatine the Royal Mail continues until 23:59 connected Thursday.
On onslaught days determination volition beryllium nary archetypal oregon 2nd people missive deliveries - and nary collections from station boxes.
If this each sounds similar Groundhog Day, you are not wrong. Take a look astatine my briefing connected Wednesday for Royal Mail's proposal to customers.
Brief respite connected the trains
The walkout by members of the UK's biggest obstruction national RMT ends astatine 23:59 connected Wednesday.
But retrieve connected Friday, the disruption starts each implicit again. The RMT is owed to locomotion retired for different 48 hours until the extremity of Saturday.
Further RMT strikes are besides planned implicit the Christmas and New Year period.
Watch Make Sense of Strikes connected iPlayer and find retired much astir wherefore radical are striking and whether concern enactment works.
What astir Friday?
We volition person different briefing for you from teatime connected Thursday - looking up to Friday's disruption erstwhile obstruction workers volition locomotion retired again.
How are you affected by the strikes? Are you taking portion successful onslaught action? You tin email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.
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