Strikes – Southwark News

Strike looming at London South Bank University

Staff Reporter — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Staff at London South Bank University (LBSU) have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action after planned contract changes caused uproar and an growth in union membership. The University Colleges Union (UCU) has already lambasted a new plan by the LBSU that would, they say, take academics off their current contracts, leave new staff unable […]

Tube Strikes: what you need to know

News Desk — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:09:04 +0000

This means the Jubilee, Northern and Bakerloo lines, which serve the borough, will be down.

Infectious disease clean-up teams suspend strike at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals

Herbie Russell — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 17:22:51 +0000

Infectious disease rapid response teams have called off a strike at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals. Unite the Union claimed suspending the industrial action, planned for Monday, January 27, until Friday, January 31, was a “goodwill gesture” while negotiations continue. Dozens of workers, who perform “ultra cleans” in the most highly infectious disease areas, were […]

Cleaners at prestigious Dulwich girls’ school reach agreement over pay and conditions

Herbie Russell — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 10:36:40 +0000

Outsourced cleaners at a prestigious Dulwich private school have called off their strike after reaching an agreement with their employer, their union has claimed. Cleaners at James Allen’s Girls’ School, who were employed by DB Services, will have ‘pay cuts’ reversed and backdated, get full sick pay, and compensation for lost hours, United Voices of […]

Cleaners working at Dulwich private school to strike claiming ‘cuts to £13 per hour wage’

Herbie Russell — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 07:18:50 +0000

Cleaners working at a Dulwich private school have voted to strike, claiming their hours and £13 hourly rate have been cut. The workers are employed by DB Services to work at James Allen’s Girls’ School (JAGS) – a £25,000 year independent school. Gloria Chalaco, cleaner at JAGS and UVW member, said: “We are ready to strike […]

Housing repair worker strike averted after Southwark Council agree £400 pay increase

Herbie Russell — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:40:08 +0000

Southwark Council’s housing repair workers will not strike this month after its union successfully negotiated a new pay deal. 130 employees, responsible for fixing disrepair in council homes, will no longer down tools on October 12, 13, 18, 19 and 20. Southwark Council initially offered workers a pay increase of £1,925 but without London weighting […]

Tourist attractions like Tower Bridge could close due to strikes

Isabel Ramirez — Thu, 18 May 2023 13:30:27 +0000

Tower Bridge and other tourist attractions across the capital could be forced to close next Thursday as over 900 workers will strike over pay, following the revelation that some are having to use food banks to get by. City of London Corporation workers will walk out for twenty-four hours on Thursday, May 25 in a […]

A&E patients to be turned away from St Thomas’ Hospital as nurses launch most extreme strike yet this weekend

Herbie Russell — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 12:32:13 +0000

South East London emergency departments face a bank holiday weekend of disarray as nurses launch their most extreme strike to date. For the first time, nurses in intensive care, cancer wards, and A&E departments will join the walk out from 8pm on Sunday, April 30 to midnight on Monday, May 1. The A&E department at […]

‘On the breadline’: Emergency workers strike outside Waterloo Ambulance Station

Herbie Russell — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 14:52:33 +0000

A paramedic had said his family is “on the breadline” as striking ambulance workers picket outside Waterloo Ambulance Station. Another ambulance worker who has worked for 37 years, said the situation was “the most difficult” he had ever seen. Thousands of call handlers, paramedics, drivers and technicians are today (Monday, January 23) walking out, demanding […]

Southwark Review of the Year 2022: Mass strike action

Herbie Russell — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 12:37:45 +0000

2022 saw an unprecedented wave of industrial action as nurses, paramedics, doctors, postal workers, railway workers and barristers took a stand against their employers. As inflation soared after the fallout from covid-19, the Ukraine war and Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget, workers across the UK looked to boost their stagnating wages. The transport union RMT’s announcement, […]