Christmas strikes won’t save trade unions from oblivion

In the biggest industrial strife to hit the UK since the 1980s, the demands for pay increases belie deeper issues behind the strikes.

General view of London Bridge station where a limited number of trains still operate, as rail workers strike over pay and terms, in London, Britain December 13, 2022. REUTERS/Maja Smiejkowska

Railway workers in Britain are going on strike in the run-up to Christmas.

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Jonathan Eyal

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Spare a thought for the people of Britain who, as things currently stand, will not have a delightful festive season. Their country seems set to be paralysed by the biggest wave of strikes in half a century.

Railway workers are

going on strike

in the run-up to Christmas. So are Britain’s 110,000 postal workers, meaning if your Christmas parcels were not mailed last week, they stand little chance of reaching your loved ones in time.

Christmas strikes won’t save trade unions from oblivion

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