Summary: Major teaching unions agree to end strikes after accepting a 6.5% pay rise. The government has offered an additional £900 million in funding for schools. The pay raise, the largest in over 30 years, does not impact front-line school services or education budgets. Despite the settlement, concerns about heavy workloads and long hours remain unresolved. All major teaching unions have voted to end their strike action following an agreement on a 6.5% pay increase, in addit...

Summary: Hospital consultants in England strike for the first time in ten years, demanding better pay and improved working conditions. The government's acceptance of the 6% pay review body recommendation is seen as inadequate by consultants, who are facing a 35% pay erosion over the last 15 years. Trust leaders express concern over the potential impact of the strike on patient care, with nearly three-quarters of a million appointments canceled in the past eight months due to industrial action. ...

Train strikes: RMT Boss says pay offer 'not acceptable' Well, the R&T General Secretary, Mick Lynch, joins me now. A very good morning to you, Mick Lynch. First of all, just how much support do you expect to have for the walkout today? Just how disruptive will this strike be? Well, our members will be out all over the country. They'll be on picket lines up and down the rail network. We've had a very strong mandate to renew our action in the last week or so, a nine-to-one vote on a heavy turnout. So our members are up and down the picket lines, taking the action as instructed by the union and as voted for by them. And so the action is solid, and it will be as long as this campaign goes on. People watching will know that this dispute has been going on for a long time. How close are you now to a resolution? Well, we had an offer put to us, the second or third offer,...