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This Better Work

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

Union members at the east Bristol secondary school have achieved most of a series of asks from the academy trust that manages it, after announcing rolling walkouts. Workers say the action has brought staff together.

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?

Josh Connor

Reports

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

Meet two critical care nurses from the picket line at the BRI in historic NHS 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
Image of a masked nurse in a hospital operating room (credit: Royal College of Nursing)

Reports

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

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

City

“Doctors have united against the government to protect patients.”

Junior doctors are striking today in response to government plans to change their contracts. Here is why.

Tom Walker
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