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Oil and gas windfall tax to end in 2030, UK Government confirms

The University of Dundee's Queen Mother Building

SNP tells university to consider any staff proposals to limit job cuts

Hundreds of jobs will be lost at Grangemouth

Trade union chief tells Labour 'do your jobs' on Grangemouth

A union has called on the First Minister to step in after a company with a multi-million pound contract to supply food to Scottish hospitals ripped up a 30-year agreement with workers.

John Swinney urged to act on "union-busting" NHS food supplier

Kelvinside Academy

Trade unions grow in Scottish private schools after historic strike

Protest at the Scottish Parliament this week over the financial crisis facing universities

University staff vote for strike action over job cuts

University students studying in a circle

Exclusive Crisis-hit Scottish university to unveil rescue plan 'within weeks'

Accident and emergency at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary - nearly 1,200 patients have died since 2018 after waiting more than four hours in Lothian A&E departments. Picture: Ian Georgeson.

Emergency declared as patient waits in ambulance for 12 hours

University students studying in a circle

Vote shows 9 in 10 staff at university have 'no confidence' in bosses

Deputy First Minister and Finance Secretary Shona Robison. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Exclusive SNP warned not to use workers as 'scapegoats' for budget cuts

Women in Scotland can now expect to earn a “scandalous” £3000 less per year than men, a trade union has warned, as the mean gender pay gap rose by 30 per cent.

Women in Scotland earn £3,000 less per year than men as pay gap soars

Offshore workers at Ninian Central platform with posters backing Unite the Union's No Ban Without a Plan campaign.

Ad Feature No Ban Without a Plan petition by Unite to protect oil and gas jobs

Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves (Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

Exclusive Reeves in Budget warning not to 'hollow out' energy jobs in Scotland

First Minister John Swinney PIC: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

'Unacceptable': John Swinney blasts school strike targeting his seat

The Grangemouth oil refinery is to close with the loss of hundreds of jobs (Picture: Jane Barlow)

Exclusive Workers to 'leave Scotland for England' due to Grangemouth closure

Torness could be considered as the site for a new nuclear reactor in Scotland. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Exclusive SNP told to rethink nuclear opposition after Grangemouth jobs losses

The Methil Harland & Wolff site in Fife

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Further education lecturers hold a rally outside the Scottish Parliament amid an ongoing dispute that's become a rear-guard action in defence of the college sector (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

SNP minister admits college pay dispute is 'nowhere near' resolution

Piles of rubbish lined the streets in Edinburgh during prolonged industrial action in 2022. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

SNP 'should be grown-ups' to avert bin strikes

Scenes of rubbish piled up in the streets during a bin strike in Edinburgh in August 2022

The 'awful' plea over bin strikes issued to Edinburgh tourists

Overflowing bins were a common sight during previous strike action in Edinburgh in 2022

Bin strike dates: when rubbish will pile up in Scotland

School children during a class. Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Fears for Scottish children as strikes cost schools 200,000 staff days

In 2022 visitors to the Edinburgh festivals were shocked by city streets during the refuse workers' strike

Readers' Letters: Capital residents, demand more from your representatives

ScotRail trains at Glasgow Central Railway Station. Image: John Devlin/National World.

ScotRail: John Swinney to extend the abolition of peak rail fares

Aberdeen City, where a redesign of education services will be held

Exclusive Redesign of Scottish council schools after pupil violence surge

Exclusive Trade unions call for urgent intervention from SNP ministers amid strike threat

Scotrail has issued travel advice for those attending Edinburgh festivals this weekend.

Scottish Government urged to permanently end peak rail fares

PIC LISA FERGUSON 07/09/2023. College lecturers protest outside the Scottish Parliament.

SNP accused of treating colleges with 'contempt' as true scale of cuts revealed

Gavin Donoghue, director of College Employers Scotland

Trade unions must give college staff 'a say on pay' - Gavin Donoghue

The trial will see passengers pay more or less depending on how busy a service is Photo by Dan Dennison/Getty Images)

Full List of train ticket office closures, is your area affected?

Scotland's junior doctors have threatened strike action similar to that seen south of the border unless its pay restoration demands are met. Picture: Carl Court/Getty Images

NHS medics keep strike threat despite 14.5% pay offer

Teachers are among just one of the many professions striking

Who is striking and when in 2023?

University staff go on strike today with more on the way as pay and pension dispute rages on (Photo by Martin Pope/Getty Images)

University staff go on strike over pay and pension dispute

RMT general secretary Mick Lynch (centre) on an RMT picket line during January’s strike (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Who is on strike today? Teachers & junior doctors included

Rail workers will stage a series of fresh strikes in March and April (Photo: Getty Images)

Strike action taking place in March 2023 in the UK - including NEU

South Lanarkshire EIS members hold a rally outside council headquarters

Scottish Government new pay offer to teaching unions with £156m of extra funding

Representatives of National Education Union (NEU), Communication Workers Union (CWU) and the public-service union Unison join a rally by the University and College Union (UCU).

UK mass strike will see half a million workers walk out today

Who is striking in February 2023? Full list of all industrial action

Private firms could be set to increase their benefits from National Care Service contracts to £2.2m in total.

Unions fume as six-figure National Care Service contract set for private firms

Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills Shirley-Anne Somerville

'Scope for compromise' in dispute with teachers - Scotland’s Education Secretary

A number of schools will be closed due to EIS strike action

Full list of schools that will close in January due to strike action

RMT Union members stage an industrial protest. Picture: John Devlin

If you think strikes are irritating try poor pay and working conditions
Absolutely everyone is going on strike, which should be a lesson if anyone is brave enough to learn it.

Teachers across Scotland took strike action last week

More strikes loom as teachers formally reject 'unacceptable' pay offer

The Scottish Government has been criticised for its planned National Care Service reform

Care Service plans 'unforgivably' threatened by private consultant spending

Kevin Stewart said the National Care Service would help eradicate 'postcode lotteries'.

National Care Service is not centralisation, insists SNP social care minister

Organiser and host of one of the rally events Taj Ali

Enough is Enough Rally: what is happening on October 1

Bin strikes across Scottish local authorities will go ahead this week despite a new pay offer being made.

Bin strikes to go ahead across Scotland as more waste workers walk out

A number of councils could go on strike

In full: The Scottish councils facing potential strike action

Trade union leaders warn that scenes like this of uncollected refuse could be common across Scotland as council workers vote to strike over pay

'Waste could pile high' warning as council workers vote to strike

Thousands of council workers are set to strike

'Rubbish will pile high' and schools close as council workers vote to strike

Pat Rafferty, Unite's Scottish secretary, said thousands of new members have signed up in Scotland since the turn of the year. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA

Unions see surge in Scottish members as cost of living crisis worsens

Women council workers fighting for fair equal pay compensation. Picture: John Devlin

Trade unions need to think hard about impact of industrial action – Sandy Begbie

The STUC has called on council candidates to demand urgent rent controls.

Unions call for Scottish council candidates to back 'urgent' rent controls

Council workers in more than half of Scotland’s local authorities are to take strike action as part of a row over pay.

COP26: Council workers strike could ‘close schools and leave waste uncollected’

PricewaterhouseCoopers has received a £100k contract to help design the National Care Service

'Deeply troubling': National Care Service contract awarded to consultancy firm

Furloughed staff say a restaurant chain asked for 10% of their wages - and threatened redundancy if they didn’t agree (Photo: Shutterstock)

Furloughed staff say a restaurant chain asked for 10% of their wages - and threa...

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