industrial action

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TfL said the industrial action was "completely unnecessary" while Aslef, another Tube driver union, supports the deal as "exactly the sort every trade union should be trying to achieve".

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

For more details on the impact of the industrial action on your commute, click on the explainer below.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

The offer - aimed at avoiding industrial action – applied to doctors, nurses and auxiliary staff, but not homecare workers in the independent sector.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

As part of industrial action short of strike during pay disputes in recent years, teachers had boycotted inspections.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

A threat was recently made by the representatives of the miners that industrial action would be taken unless the Government at once withdrew all troops from Russia and abandoned conscription.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 4, 1919. by Various