Thousands of schools in the U.K. are closing some or all of their classrooms, train services will be paralyzed and delays are expected at airports Wednesday in what's shaping up to be the biggest day of industrial action Britain has seen in more than a decade, as unions step up pressure on the government to demand better pay amid a cost-of-living crisis.
The Trades Union Congress, a federation of unions, estimated that up to half a million workers, including teachers, university staff, civil servants, border officials and train and bus drivers, will walk out of their jobs across the country.Britons have endured months of disruptions to their daily lives as a bitter dispute over pay and work conditions drags on between unions and the government. But Wednesday's strikes mark an escalation of disruptive action across multiple key industries.
The Trades Union Congress said Wednesday the average public sector worker is 203 pounds a month worse off compared with 2010, once inflation has been taken into account. "It's everybody out ... of course there's going to be some disruption and some queues," Phil Douglas, director-general of Border Force, told reporters.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's office acknowledged that Wednesday's wave of walkouts will cause "significant disruption" to people, and maintained that "negotiations rather than picket lines are the right approach." But union leaders say the government has refused to negotiate and offer enough to halt the strikes.
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