WHO’LL STRIKE WHEN AND HOW IT COULD AFFECT YOU
MONDAY NOVEMBER 21 – Teachers from the NASUWT union close their ballot on strike action.
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 23 – Lecturers, researchers, library staff and administrators in the University and College Union (UCU) start work to rule.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 24 – Teachers from the EIS union strike, forcing the closure of virtually all Scottish local authority schools. Lecturers, researchers and others in the UCU escalate action to two-day strike. Postal workers who collect, sort and deliver parcels and letters with Royal Mail in the Communications Workers Union (CWU) start two-day strike.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 25 – Ambulance staff including paramedics, advanced practitioners, planners and administrators with the Unite union begin continuous action short of strikes, including overtime ban and work to rule.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26 – Train driver members of Aslef strike, potentially affecting Avanti West Coast and LNER services into Glasgow and Edinburgh.
MONDAY NOVEMBER 28 – Ambulance staff with the THREAT: Union members are ready to walk out this week in a bitter pay dispute GMB union launch a 26-hour strike from 6am.
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 30 – Postal workers with CWU strike. University staff from UCU set for a third strike day.
THURSDAY DECEMBER 1 – Postal worker members of CWU strike. MONDAY DECEMBER 5 – Members of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) balloted on strike action from today. Teachers with the Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association considering a strike this week.
NEW YEAR – Marking and assessment of students’ work could stop if UCU dispute escalates.
JANUARY 10 – Primary and nursery EIS teachers strike. JANUARY 11 – Secondary EIS teachers strike, potentially disrupting pupils during prelims.
JANUARY 23 – FBU ballot closes.
WINTER 2022-23 Nurses, radiographers and physiotherapists may all give further details of industrial action, which may be co-ordinated. First tranche of as yet unspecified industrial action by civil servants in Public and Commercial Services Union although its impact in Scotland is so far unclear.