Video Period 25 minutes 30 seconds
Employees throughout completely different sectors stroll off the job to demand higher pay and situations.
Employees in the UK have launched a few of their most disruptive industrial motion in years.
With dwelling prices hitting a 40-year excessive, they need extra pay and higher situations. Tens of 1000’s of transport workers, postal staff, garbage collectors and even legal professionals have walked off the job.
And for the primary time in 30 years, dock staff additionally went on strike on the UK’s largest container port. Well being staff and lecturers are amongst these threatening to strike quickly.
Commerce unions accuse enterprise leaders of placing earnings forward of staff however the authorities says union bosses are holding the nation to ransom.
Will they be capable to discover a compromise?
Presenter: Laura Kyle
Visitors:
Stephen Cotton – normal secretary, Worldwide Transport Employees’ Federation
Pushpin Singh – economist, Centre for Financial and Enterprise Analysis
Giles Kenningham – founder, Trafalgar Technique; former head of press No 10 Downing Road
