Stagnant wages while the cost of living soars has resulted in millions of workers being less well-off than they were just months ago. As living standards fall at their sharpest rate since the 1950s, unions are about to take action to ensure their members receive a fair wage which keeps up with increasing prices.
Grabbing the headlines this summer has been the major National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) strike, which saw trainlines cancelled, leader Mick Lynch become a household name and thousands join pickets across the country. But the threat of strikes to industries is not over, in fact appears to only be just getting started.
Dubbed the summer of discontent, industrial action is set to rock Britain well into late summer and beyond, as workers fight for better pay, improved working conditions and more secure positions. With strikes planned in the coming weeks, we've got a full list of every union that may take industrial action soon.
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Airline staff
Most major airlines have experienced disruption to operations due to striking workers and more action is planned. Staff working for easyJet and Ryanair in Spain, who are members of the USO and SITCPLA unions, will continue walkouts this July.
Ryanair staff are striking on July 20, 21, 25 to 28 - over 10 Spanish airports. While, easyJet workers plan action on July 29, 30 and 31. A last minute pay deal recently saw British Airways avoid strike disruption.
Nurses
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN), which represents nurses in England, are to be balloted on striking this month, with the likely outcome being a strike. According to Nursing Notes, the average experienced frontline nurse is a whopping £6,000 worse of that 12 years ago, despite having taken consecutive pay rises in recent years.
Rail workers
The RMT are continuing to take industrial action after the Government failed to meet their demands. Three further days of strikes are planned on July 27, August 18 and 20. This will include 40,000 workers across Network Rail and 14 operating companies.
Teachers and lecturers
Teachers and lecturers are likely to go on strike in the coming months. The National Education Union and the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) will ballot members on industrial action in the autumn, which is thought will result in voting to take action.
Meanwhile, the University and College Union (UCU) has announced that 29 of the 33 colleges balloting on strikes have agreed to industrial action.
The news comes after the UCU refused a 2.5 percent pay increase which was recommended by the Association of Colleges. Instead, they want a 10 percent rise with a minimum uplift of £2,000.
Post Office and Royal Mail
Unite the Union says that despite the industry being 'awash with cash', some workers have seen their pay packets cut by £7,000. Some Post Office workers have already walked out earlier in July, while some Royal Mail managers also joined them.
After receiving what is thought to Royal Mail workers' biggest mandate to strike ever, 115,000 employees could walk out in late-summer .
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) vote on whether to take action, resulted in 97.6 percent of members backing strikes.
Doctors
Members of the Doctors in Unite union voted to seek a 30 percent increase in their salaries over the next five years with action likely to be taken in spring 2023. This is in response to seeing their pay reduced by a third in real terms since 2008.
According to the British Medical Association's chair of council, Prof Philip Banfield, industrial action is inevitable.
Bus staff
Close to 2,000 Arriva workers will not go to work in Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire for an indefinite period until a solution is reached. The strike began on July 20 after 96 percent of Unite and GMB members voted to take action.
It means the majority of the company's bus routes will not run for the foreseeable future.
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