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Driver walkout halts trains as UK summer strike wave spreads
More public- and private-sector unions are planning strikes as Britain faces its worst cost-of-living crisis in decades. Postal workers, lawyers, British Telecom staff, dock workers and garbage …
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9:49 AM · Aug 18, 2022
Tens of thousands of UK workers strike as inflation crushes wages
18 Aug 202218 from al jazeera.com/news shared with thanks
Rail, mail and dock workers are launching strikes in vast numbers as UK inflation erodes the value of their wages.
A No Entry belt barrier blocks access to a platform at King’s Cross railway station in London [File: Carlos Jasso/AFP]
Britain’s rail, mail and dock workers are launching strikes in vast numbers as 40-year-high inflation erodes the value of wages at a record pace
Britain’s train network faces further heavy disruption on Thursday and Saturday in major walkouts that follow the sector’s biggest strike action for 30 years already this summer.
Who is the man driving UK’s ongoing rail strikes?
Starmer’s anti-strike stance will not carry Labour to government
Biggest railway strike in 30 years strands commuters in UK
Tens of thousands of staff are expected to strike over the two days, leaving a skeleton train service that will hit holiday-makers and commuters.
London’s Underground railway, commonly known as the Tube, will be hit by a strike on Saturday, ahead of an eight-day stoppage starting on Sunday by dockers at Felixstowe, Britain’s largest freight port, located in eastern England.
“We will continue to do whatever is necessary to defend jobs, pay and conditions during this cost-of-living crisis,” Sharon Graham, head of major British union Unite, said this week.
Official data on Wednesday showed UK inflation at a 40-year high above 10 percent, as soaring food and energy prices hurt millions of Britons.
The Bank of England has forecast inflation to top 13 percent this year, tipping the British economy into a deep and long-lasting recession.
“This record fall in real wages demonstrates the vital need for unions like Unite to defend the value of workers’ pay,” Graham said, while hitting out at suggestions, including from Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, that pay rises were driving inflation.
“Wages are not driving inflation,” she insisted ahead of the latest UK inflation data that showed rocketing food prices were the main factor behind July’s spike.
CONTINUE HERE: https://thefreeonline.com/2022/08/19/resistance-kicks-off-dontpayuk-enough-is-enough-strikemapuk/
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Driver walkout halts trains as UK summer strike wave spreads
More public- and private-sector unions are planning strikes as Britain faces its worst cost-of-living crisis in decades. Postal workers, lawyers, British Telecom staff, dock workers and garbage …
Enough is Enough
@eiecampaign
·
Follow
“The working class is back. We’re not just back as an idea, we’re back as a movement. They act in their class interests, it’s time we acted in ours.” - Mick Lynch of @RMTunion at the #EnoughlsEnough launch rally. Join us: http://wesayenough.co.uk
9:49 AM · Aug 18, 2022
Tens of thousands of UK workers strike as inflation crushes wages
18 Aug 202218 from al jazeera.com/news shared with thanks
Rail, mail and dock workers are launching strikes in vast numbers as UK inflation erodes the value of their wages.
A No Entry belt barrier blocks access to a platform at King’s Cross railway station in London [File: Carlos Jasso/AFP]
Britain’s rail, mail and dock workers are launching strikes in vast numbers as 40-year-high inflation erodes the value of wages at a record pace
Britain’s train network faces further heavy disruption on Thursday and Saturday in major walkouts that follow the sector’s biggest strike action for 30 years already this summer.
Who is the man driving UK’s ongoing rail strikes?
Starmer’s anti-strike stance will not carry Labour to government
Biggest railway strike in 30 years strands commuters in UK
Tens of thousands of staff are expected to strike over the two days, leaving a skeleton train service that will hit holiday-makers and commuters.
London’s Underground railway, commonly known as the Tube, will be hit by a strike on Saturday, ahead of an eight-day stoppage starting on Sunday by dockers at Felixstowe, Britain’s largest freight port, located in eastern England.
“We will continue to do whatever is necessary to defend jobs, pay and conditions during this cost-of-living crisis,” Sharon Graham, head of major British union Unite, said this week.
Official data on Wednesday showed UK inflation at a 40-year high above 10 percent, as soaring food and energy prices hurt millions of Britons.
Inflation to keep rising
And the situation is set to worsen under a new prime minister, as under-fire Boris Johnson prepares to step down.The Bank of England has forecast inflation to top 13 percent this year, tipping the British economy into a deep and long-lasting recession.
“This record fall in real wages demonstrates the vital need for unions like Unite to defend the value of workers’ pay,” Graham said, while hitting out at suggestions, including from Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, that pay rises were driving inflation.
“Wages are not driving inflation,” she insisted ahead of the latest UK inflation data that showed rocketing food prices were the main factor behind July’s spike.
CONTINUE HERE: https://thefreeonline.com/2022/08/19/resistance-kicks-off-dontpayuk-enough-is-enough-strikemapuk/
Thanks to: https://thefreeonline.com
