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All the strike days that will affect Manchester over the next few months
Heads-up: February 1st will be a huge day of strike action.
As more strikes are announced to continue into 2023, here’s a round up of all the strikes happening around Greater Manchester over the next coming weeks.
January 18th and 19th will see tens of thousands of nursing staff at 55 NHS trusts across England stage a mass walk-out as part of an ongoing dispute over nursing pay and patient safety.
The RCN General Secretary & Chief Executive Pat Cullen, has said:“Today’s strike action by nursing staff is a modest escalation before a sharp increase in under three weeks from now. If a week is a long time for Rishi Sunak, three weeks is the time he needs to get this resolved.
“People aren’t dying because nurses are striking. Nurses are striking because people are dying. That is how severe things are in the NHS and it is time the Prime Minister led a fight for its future.
“Today’s record number of unfilled nurse jobs cannot be left to get worse. Pay nursing staff fairly to turn this around and give the public the care they deserve.”
Some ambulance staff are also expected to take further industrial action on Monday, January 23rd.
The next big day of strike action will be on Wednesday February 1st in England and Wales – which will see multiple sectors walking out.
Teachers, support staff and school workers belonging to the National Education Union, will strike across the North West on the following dates: Wednesday February 1st, Tuesday February 28th, Wednesday March 15th and Thursday March 16th. More than 23,000 schools are expected to be affected.
On Wednesday February 1st, 70,000 university staff will also take strike action in an ongoing dispute over pay, working conditions and pensions.
It has been confirmed by ASLEF that RMT train drivers at 14 train operators will also strike on the same date as well as on Friday February 3rd, along with ASLEF union members.
The strikes were announced after the union rejected a proposal made on behalf of the Government following six separate one-day strikes last year.
ASLEF claims the offer amounts to a ‘real-terms pay cut’ and came with unacceptable conditions.
Mick Whelan, General Secretary of ASLEF, said: “The proposal is not and could not ever be acceptable but we are willing to engage in further discussions within the process that we previously agreed.”
Coinciding with all this, more than 100,000 civil servants will strike at 124 Government departments on February 1st, making this date a huge day of strikes.