strike

An empty school classroom with desks and chairs. Overlayed is the 'People Just Do Something' logo.

People Just Do Something

Listen: People Just Do Something, with striking teacher Nik on trade unionism’s ‘ethical gravy train’

What is a strike? What are trade unions for? How can you organise your workplace? Teacher and NEU rep Nik steps away from the picket line for a 'union bro love-in' with Isaac that answers these questions and more.

Priyanka Raval George Colwey
Priyanka Raval, Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins and George Colwey

This Better Work

‘Collective power is where it’s at’: City Academy workers celebrate strike action successes

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

This Better Work

Service cuts, redundancies and rising caseloads: St. Mungo’s staff vote for indefinite strike action

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

This Better Work

How can workers turn strikes into wins?

As the cost of living crisis bites, recent months have seen the return of mass strikes. While the cards are stacked against workers, they have won important victories – how have these been achieved, and how can we build on them?

Josh Connor

Reports

‘The way the NHS is managed is breaking workers’. Bristol nurses take historic strike action

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval
Image of the 2021 UCU Bristol strike

Voices

‘Academic and support staff are suffering – it’s time for universities to dip into their rainy day funds’

Jeff Pocock

Reports

Image of a masked nurse in a hospital operating room (credit: Royal College of Nursing)

As nurses vote for historic industrial action, is Bristol facing a winter of strikes? 

Nurses have voted for a national strike over pay for the first time ever, joining Bristol workers across multiple industries pushing for better pay and conditions as the UK goes from the cost of living crisis into recession.

Alex King
Alex King

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Why Reach PLC’s Bristol Live journalists are striking, with National Union of Journalists’ Paul Breeden

A thousand journalists are taking strike action across the country at Reach PLC, one of the big three conglomerates that dominate the regional news market and who own Bristol Live.

Aphra Evans Adam Cantwell-Corn Neil Maggs
Aphra Evans, Adam Cantwell-Corn and Neil Maggs

Reports

Students occupy Bristol University in support of striking staff

Students have occupied the management floor of University of Bristol’s Senate House, demanding that the Vice-Chancellor supports striking staff

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Reports

“What do we want? Equal Pay. When? 1970.”

Despite sector profits nationally, universities lecturers strike over poor pay, insecurity and gender inequality Staff at the University of Bristol and UWE have joined a...

Alec Saelens
Alec Saelens

City

Library workers get militant

It wasn’t just the doctors striking this week. Libraries closed across the city yesterday as library assistants went on strike.

Yasmin Aston-Patel

City

Feeling undervalued, unheard – but determined. Talking to doctors on Bristol’s pickets today.

Today junior doctors in Bristol joined thousands of their colleagues across England in striking against the proposed changes to their contracts by the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt. The Bristol Cable joined one of the pickets.....

Dean Ayotte
Dean Ayotte
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