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Strikes by over 130 workers at Leeds Bradford Airport starting this week have been suspended to allow for fresh negotiations.

Leeds Bradford Airport strikes suspended as fresh pay talks begin
Planned strikes involving more than 130 workers at Leeds Bradford Airport have been suspended to allow fresh pay negotiations to take place.

Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said threats to close the Rough gas storage facility "are endangering jobs and our ability to keep the lights on and heat homes"

Government support 'needed to prevent closure of Yorkshire gas storage facility'

Leeds Bradford Airport pictured in 2019. PIC: Simon Hulme

Breaking Leeds Bradford Airport could be 'shutdown' this month due to strikes

Alexander Dennis Picket. Unite

400 staff return to work as end of Scarborough strike action

Alexander Dennis picket.

400 staff to strike again at major North Yorkshire bus manufacturer

Workers on the picket line. Photo: Unite

MP speaks out as hundreds to strike at major North Yorkshire bus factory

Industrial action at a major North Yorkshire bus factory will ‘not end’ until an improved pay offer is presented, a trade union has said.

Hundreds of staff to walk out for second time at major manufacturer

Catterick Garrison

Contractors who maintain army's Challenger Tanks considering striking

Sheffield Council Town Hall chamber

Sheffield school staff receive payment offers over equal pay claims

Bus drivers in Doncaster have staged a number of strikes since March 28

Planned strike by bus drivers called off to allow for talks

Striking bus drivers in Doncaster have called two new strikes. (Photo: Deano Wardle).

Bus drivers plan fresh strikes as industrial action escalates

Striking bus drivers picketing the Leger Way First depot

Bus strikes continue across Doncaster as drivers battle for better pay

General Secretary of the Unite the Union, Sharon Graham says management at Leeds city council must come up with a solution to the problems facing passenger transport services. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Leeds Council transport services face disruption as strike looms

Workers at the Leeds North and Leeds South sites of the Village Hotel chain will take strike action from December 26-28, described as the ‘most lucrative weekend of the year’ for the business by Unite. Pic: Google

‘Unmade beds and no cleaning’ as Yorkshire hotel staff to go on strike

The cast of Love. Unite. Freedom.

Bradford 2025 performance celebrates Black British music

Sheffield Wednesday remain embroiled in turbulence.

Sheffield Wednesday staff mobilise as union speak out against Chansiri

Lindsey Oil Refinery, near North Killingholme. Credit: Donna Clifford. Permission for LDR partners to use.

Third of workers axed at oil refinery 'making mockery of government promises'

Greg Wright argues that organised cyber attacks pose the biggest threat to the UK's economic stability. Many of the other factors affecting business performance, such as taxation, are overseen by public servants, who are answerable to the electorate. The cyber criminals can’t be voted out of office and they are not amenable to reason. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)

Cyber crime is biggest threat to UK economy: Greg Wright

French CGT trade unionists and Birmingham bin strikers joined a Sheffield Town Hall Unite union rally in March 2025 for bin workers taking action against council waste contractor Veolia for union recognition. Picture: Julia Armstrong, LDRS

Union announces indefinite bin strike in Sheffield

Annie Gray is a partner in the Employment Team at commercial law firm Schofield Sweeney, which has offices in Bradford, Leeds, Huddersfield and London. PIC: Sam Toolsie

Robust responses to protect employees from sexual harassment are needed - Annie ...

Jon Trickett at the Superdrug warehouse in South Elmsall.

Workers at Superdrug warehouse 'threatened' over redundancy payouts
Workers at a soon-to-close Superdrug warehouse in Yorkshire have been threatened with getting less generous payouts if they disagree with the company’s redundancy offer, a union claims.
Alexandra Wood

East Riding Council operates a number of leisure centres including at Driffield

Leisure centre users urge council to drop plans to cut fitness instructors' pay

Fly-tipped rubbish being collected by a grabber on Phillimore Road in Alum Rock on April 8 2025. The estimated 9-ton mountain is across the road from Hamd House nursery. Rubbish continues to pile up on Birmingham streets as bin strike misery continues. The industrial action has now entered its fifth week as experts warn potentially fatal diseases could be spread.

Bin collections delayed as union says Birmingham strike may spread

Rubbish piled up on Beach Road in Sparkhill Birmingham

Watch: Rubbish piles up in streets as bin strike enters third week

Frank Villani, a long serving maintenance engineer at Bridlington Hospital, was found to have been victimised due to his trade union role.

Manager emailed colleagues to say union rep was 'wasp (that) needs swatting'

Archive pic - A steelworker watches as molten steel pours from one of the Blast Furnaces during 'tapping' at the British Steel - Scunthorpe plant in north Lincolnshire, north east England on September 29, 2016.

Calls for UK steel to be 'nationally critical infrastructure'

Almost Famous, in Leeds, has now closed down. Photo: Google Street View

Union claims owners of collapsed burger chain owners owe staff over £200,000

Refuse workers have voted to continue long-running industrial action in a dispute over union recognition.

Sheffield refuse workers vote to continue strike in union recognition dispute

Bus passengers in Halifax may be affected by the strike

Bus drivers strike suspended for new ballot on First Bus pay offer

Bus passengers in Halifax may be affected by the strike

Huddersfield bus drivers to strike over 10-month wait for pay parity

The factory on Weaverthrope Road, Bradford, employs over 400 people and manufactures products under the Jucee, Geebee and Wells brands.

'Very real risk' to jobs at Bradford factory if strikes continues warns boss

Ramp agents working for Swissport at Leeds-Bradford airport have won their fight for additional de-icing payments and have called off proposed industrial action that could have brought the airport to a standstill this Christmas.

Leeds Bradford Airport: Strike update after workers demand additional payments
Ramp agents working for Swissport at Leeds-Bradford airport have won their fight for additional de-icing payments and have called off proposed industrial action that could have brought the airport to a standstill this Christmas.
Daniel Sheridan

Unite said Swissport had refused to make additional payments to workers for "de-icing" duties at Leeds Bradford Airport

Threat to Christmas Ryanair flights at Leeds Bradford Airport

British Steel in Scunthorpe

Government must 'fulfil promise' to keep British Steel alive

The winter fuel payment cut is hitting millions of pensioners

Union threatens legal action over Labour's Winter Fuel Payment cuts

Cllr Tom Hunt, the leader of Sheffield City Council

Sheffield Council launches action to tackle equal pay issues

Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

PM says ‘every pensioner’ will be better off despite Winter Fuel Payment cut

Richard Burgon, who won his Leeds East seat as a Labour MP but now sits as an independent, had the highest amount of union donations of any Yorkshire MP. (Photo by ISABEL INFANTES/AFP via Getty Images)

Labour MPs in Yorkshire received almost £200,000 in union donations for election

Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said Unite will support its members at Valley Vets "every step of the way in their battle for adequate wages". (Photo by Jacob King/PA Wire)

Staff at veterinary practice Valley Vets announce further strikes

High street lender TSB has revealed that profits dropped by almost a quarter for the past half-year due to weakness in the mortgage market. (Photo by Aaron Chown/PA Wire)

TSB profits slump as it faces ‘challenging’ mortgage market

Members of the Unite union in Sheffield are due to strike in a dispute over their official recognition by Veolia.

Sheffield refuse workers call five-day strike in union dispute

Around 300 Siemens Gamesa wind turbine workers in Hull are being balloted for strike action over pay, Unite, the UK’s leading union, said today (Friday).

Workers balloted over strike action at turbine blade factory in Hull

Factory operatives on strike outside Morrisons in Wakefield in May.

Supermarket warehouse staff call off further strikes after pay increase offer

Joanna Pegg is one of the workers impacted

Morrisons workers on strike in Yorkshire impacting 500 stores

Workers at supermarket giant Morrisons are to strike in a dispute over pensions.

Morrisons: Almost 1,000 supermarket workers to strike in row over pensions

TSB has said it is closing 36 branches and cutting 250 jobs across the business. The branch closures will start in September, and continue through to May next year. The job cuts will be in the fraud operations department of the bank, central operations and staff who work at the branches earmarked for closure. (Photo by Aaron Chown/PA Wire)

TSB to close 36 bank branches and cut 250 jobs

Yorkshire Brass Band Championships at Huddersfield Town Hall

Yorkshire Brass Band Championships 2024: All the best photos of musicians

Strike action by Drax canteen workers has intensified after staff staged a second round of walk-outs last week, according to the union Unite.

Pay strike action intensifies in Drax canteens amid union health claims

Barclays has said it cut around 5,000 jobs globally during 2023 to “simplify and reshape the business”.( Photo by Tim Goode/PA Wire)

Barclays axed around 5,000 jobs globally during 2023

Hull Royal Infirmary in Anlaby Road, Hull.

Paramedics warn of queues of up to '25 ambulances' at Yorkshire hospital

Reverend and the Makers frontman Jon McClure calls on public to join Unite campaign to save UK steel

Ad Feature Reverend and the Makers hit right note with Unite to save UK steel

People carrying shopping bags.

UK at heightened risk of recession after key indicator shows market contracting

Commuters wait at a bus stop outside a branch of Barclays in London.

Barclays bank to axe 450 jobs across the business

Unite spokesman Andrew Woodhead issuing an appeal to North Yorkshire Council

Bin strikes in North Yorkshire could intensify as workers are 'exploited'

Yorkshire workers could disrupt the UK's supply of KP Nuts if they vote in favour of strike action.

UK nut supply could be affected by workers refusing to ‘work for peanuts’

London Gatwick Airport will be hit by eight days of strikes this summer - Credit: Adobe

Breaking Gatwick Airport to be hit by strikes for eight days of summer holidays

Further strike action avoided as Leeds First Bus drivers to get 13 per cent pay increase

Further strike action avoided as Leeds First Bus drivers to get pay increase

Bus strikes Leeds: Bus strikes to be suspended from Tuesday in Leeds as update expected

Bus strikes Leeds: Bus strikes to be suspended from Tuesday in Leeds

Leeds bus strikes: Strikes to begin on Sunday as drivers in Unite union reject pay deal

Strikes to begin on Sunday as bus drivers in Unite union reject pay deal

Bus strikes Leeds: Arriva to allow passengers to use First pre-paid tickets as update expected

Arriva to allow passengers to use First pre-paid tickets as update expected

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