how similar is today's situation?
- Written by Christopher Massey, Principal Lecturer (Programmes) - Humanities and Social Sciences, Teesside University
The UK government is battening down the hatches for a wave of strikes in December and January. Railway workers, nurses, ambulance workers, civil servants and postal staff are all set to take industrial action in the coming weeks in protest at wages not keeping up with inflation, with teachers’ and firefighters’ unions also balloting...