Workplace disputes and working conditions

Time series related to Workplace disputes and working conditions

• Labour disputes; working days lost due to strike action; UK (thousands)

  37 (000's) 2025 MAY

  Release date:

  17 July 2025

  Next release:

  12 August 2025

• Labour disputes; working days lost due to strike action; public sector (thousands)

  15 (000's) 2025 MAY

  Release date:

  17 July 2025

  Next release:

  12 August 2025

• Labour disputes; working days lost due to strike action; private sector (thousands)

  22 (000's) 2025 MAY

  Release date:

  17 July 2025

  Next release:

  12 August 2025

• Labour disputes; number of stoppages in progress; UK

  44 2025 MAY

  Release date:

  17 July 2025

  Next release:

  12 August 2025

Publications related to Workplace disputes and working conditions

Statistical bulletins

• Labour market overview, UK: July 2025

  Estimates of employment, unemployment, economic inactivity and other employment-related statistics for the UK.

• Working and workless households in the UK: January to March 2025

  The economic status of households in the UK and the people living in them, where at least one person is aged 16 to 64 years. Taken from the Labour Force Survey.

Articles

• Labour disputes in the UK

  Analysis of UK labour disputes in 2018, including working days lost, stoppages and workers involved.

• Working flexibly in the public sector

  Using survey data, the article explores different flexible working patterns in the public sector in the UK. It also explains reasons why people choose to work part-time.

• The history of strikes in the UK