With wages lagging galloping inflation, many, including nurses, plan to stop work again this month. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON – The winter holiday season across most of Britain ends Tuesday, but the return to work for millions of Britons comes on the same day as yet another train strike, promising a commute as unpredictable as the country’s increasingly erratic rail network.
That is not for want of effort by Britain’s conservative tabloids. One newspaper nicknamed Mr Mick Lynch, the combative leader of a rail union, “The Grinch”,spoiling office parties and hampering family reunions. In the city of Bristol, one pub cancelled a rail workers’ Christmas party in retaliation for strikes thought to have hurt the hospitality trade.
“It’s difficult for everybody because inflation is where it is, and the best way to help them and everyone else in the country is for us to get a grip and reduce inflation as quickly as possible,” Mr Sunak told a parliamentary committee in December, when asked about the plight of striking workers. At King’s Cross Station in London last week, there were certainly signs of annoyance among commuters at the disrupted services.
“I know there is no money around, but there has got to be a line,” he said, referring to reports that some health workers were relying on donated groceries. “Nurses having to go to food banks is ridiculous.”Public sympathy is being driven by a widespread feeling that the health system is understaffed and overwhelmed. One senior doctor made headlines by warning that as many as 500 patients a week could be dying because of long delays in emergency rooms across the country.
– a statement described by Ms Sharon Graham, general secretary of the union Unite, as a “blatant lie”.
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