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Cleaners employed by private firm Mitie at three NHS health centres in East Lancashire ar striking for a further three days says UNISON, including at the St Peters Centre, Burnley. Photo: Kelvin Stuttard

Health centre cleaners striking over pay dispute

Cleaners are to go on strike at the St Peters Centre, Burnley.

NHS workers to strike over regular underpayments at three local centres

Rat on top of a bin bag

Pest controllers face uphill challenge to tackle pests in hospitals

Ambulance Service staff going on strike. PIC: PA

Ambulance Service staff go on strike for 48 hours

Husband and wife council workers Alan and Linda Boyer are hanging up their hi-vis after clocking up nearly 70 years’ local government service between them.

Husband and wife council workers retire after nearly 70 years’ service

The hospital shuttle bus. Photo: Kelvin Lister-Stuttard

Victory for staff as hospital shuttle bus is saved, says UNISON

Cleaning staff at the St Peter's Health Centre in Burnley are some of those affected

Company must pay cleaning staff in full or face legal action

School support workers, cleaning staff and janitors are currently on strike in Scotland as the Unison union remains locked in a pay dispute with education chiefs. (Credit: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Scottish school support staff stage strike in pay dispute

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Autumn date set for Lancashire County Council financial healthcheck

Nurses to vote on England-wide strikes after rejecting 5% pay rise

International Day of the Midwife falls on Friday, 5 May in 202

Happy International Day of the Midwife 2023: How to get involved

Members of the Royal College of Nursing union could strike until Christmas if no deal is reached with the government over pay. (Photo by Hesther Ng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Royal College of Nursing warns of more strikes

Royal College of Nurses members, campaigning for fair pay and conditions, pictured previously taking part in industrial action at Altnagelvin Hospital. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2250GS - 38

RCN rejects Government’s pay offer - new 48 hour strike to go ahead

MP Julie Elliott alongside paramedics on the picket line outside Sunderland Ambulance station.

NHS Unison members accept pay deal offer in England

Nursing strikes 2023: Royal College of Nursing, the GMB & Unison back new pay offer - but it’s not over yet

Nursing strikes 2023: Unions back pay offer - but it’s not over yet

Staff from North West Ambulance Service on a picket line outside Wigan Community Fire and Ambulance Station in January

North West Ambulance Service bosses prepare for more strike action by staff

Striking ambulance drivers outside Burnley Ambulance Station. Photo: Kelvin Stuttard

Everything you need to know about the Burnley ambulance strikes

National ambulance and NHS trade unions have announced a day of strike action to take place tomorrow.

NHS advise when to use 999 as ambulance driver strikes begin today

Ambulance workers on strike at the Devonshire Road temporary station

Warning to only call 999 in ‘life-threatening emergencies’ amid more strikes

Christina McAnea, general secretary of UNISON, poses with ambulance workers at a picket line outside the Waterloo ambulance station in London on December 21, 2022. - Striking UK ambulance workers took to the picket lines, escalating a dispute with the government over its refusal to increase pay above inflation after recent walkouts by nurses. (Photo by Niklas HALLE’N / AFP) (Photo by NIKLAS HALLE’N/AFP via Getty Images)

Ambulance workers in England announce two new strike dates

List of all the strikes taking place in the lead up to Christmas 2022

North West Ambulance Service urged the public to call 999 only in life-threatening situations as strike action loomed

Ambulance service pleas for 999 calls only in 'life-threatening emergencies'

Army staff helped operate ambulance services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

1,200 troops to cover for striking ambulance & Border Force staff

A group of fraudsters have been posing as ambulance staff and knocking on doors asking for financial support ahead of upcoming industrial action.

Fraudsters posing as ambulance staff seen asking for donations

Staff at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield are on strike (Photo credit OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Wakefield’s National Coal Mining Museum staff to strike over pay

Exam board staff are striking again this week, affecting GCSE results day. Image: Ben Mullins on Unsplash

Exam board staff will strike this week on GCSE results day

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The care workers set off on their walk from Burnley

Burnley care workers walking to Manchester to highlight social care crisis

Unison has urged ministers to abandon the “draconian” no jab, no job policy (Photo: Getty Images)

Mandatory jab deadline for carers risks ‘catastrophic’ staff shortages

People needing occasional overnight support are provided with "sleep-in" care workers - but how much should they be paid?

Lancashire's sleep-in care workers seek pay they say they are owed

Lifeways' Lancashire office on Percy Street in Chorley

Staff claim they are 'regularly underpaid' by firm providing Lancashire care ser...

Picture: Getty Images

Trade union calls for masks in schools

North West ambulance staff will hold a consultative ballot over whether to go on strike due to being left "exhausted" by a procedure which sees them called out to incidents up to 40 minutes away.

North West Ambulance staff to consider strike action over 'excessive mileage', s...

Burnley General Hospital security staff have voted to go out on strike

Burnley General Hospital security staff agree to go on strike

Some of the security staff are employed at Burnley General Hospital

Privately-employed security staff at Burnley General Hospital vote for strike ac...

Ribble Valley Borough Council’s UNISON convener Linda Boyer.

Ribble Valley council workers dig deep for festive food and toy appeals

Firefighters were called to free a casualty trapped in their car after a crash on the M6 northbound, near Charnock Richard, in January 2017. There is no suggestion any were hurt on this specific job (Picture: Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service)

Firefighters increasingly hurt on the job - with rise blamed on heavy lifting du...

These are your rights as a worker during the coronavirus pandemic

Boris Johnson. Picture: PA

New coronavirus warning system to be unveiled by Prime Minister

A minute's silence will be held across the UK today (28 April) to commemorate the key workers who have lost their lives from Covid-19 (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s what you need to know about today’s minute’s silence for key workers

Home Office figures show crews from the Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service attended 43 callouts for bariatric assistance

Lancashire's firefighters regularly being called to move overweight people

If you’re a smoker then nipping out for a cigarette or vape at work may be much needed (Photo: Shutterstock)

These are the laws about smoking or vaping at work - and how many breaks you can...

Unison members protesting against the NHS closure of the former Calderstones hospital, now Mersey Care Whalley, in 2015.

Unison officials at Mersey Care Whalley criticise ITV special news report for fa...

East Lancashire Hospitals Trust had the highest uptake of the flu vaccine in England last year.

NHS: All front-line health workers need flu jab this winter

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Ambulance crews working '˜flat out' after service is branded '˜shambles'

The UK on the whole invested16.1 billion from council pensions incoal, oil, and gas extraction industries.

Â£340m of Lancashire pensions invested in fossil fuels

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