Millions of public sector workers could go on strike this fall in what is said to be the biggest strike since the 1970s, according to new analysis.
rail workers, garbage collectors,Royal Mail workers,NHS officials who voted to strike or who walked are included among those who may be out.
The threat of a strike by trade unions could be as great as the turmoil of the 1970s, when workers demanded higher wages due to soaring inflation. Also found a special report Sky News by.
A picket line outside Liverpool Lime Street station
on 27 July as members of the Railway, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) departed. } (PA)
Approximately 115,000 Royal Mail workers will retire at the end of August/early September. Members of the Telecommunications Union are set to leave after negotiations stalled over a proposed wage increase.
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The union has asked Royal Mail to raise wages to cover the "current cost of living", adding "up to 5.5 percent".
On August 18 and 20, more than 40,000 of his workers at Network Rail and 14 other railroad companies will retire.
RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch urged the government to provide wages that "help address the cost of living crisis, secure employment for union members and provide good conditions at work." I asked them to "take it seriously".
Members of the Communications Trade Union plan to go on strike this summer
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Royal Nursing Universities and Unite are voting hundreds of thousands of NHS workers for industrial action after being offered a 'miserable' 4% pay rise. The chief executive of the Bristol Royal Infirmary warned there was a "real risk" that hospital staff might go on strike.
Her more than 1,600 London bus drivers, members of Unite, are also due to go on strike on 20 August. The next day he launched his eight-day strike on 21 August by workers at the UK's largest container port, Felixstowe.
Trashmen and street sweepers are on strike in Edinburgh this summer, and street sweepers are on strike in Newham, London.
Already he has more than 6,000 court cases disrupted by barrister strikes.
Defense barristers are out bi-weekly to vote for a full, indefinite strike beginning September 5th.
