The British Government will send 1200 soldiers to cover the strike of border and ambulance workers. Several public sector unions withdraw this week, before Christmas.
The staff of ambulances plans to make to hit this wednesday. They will join nurses, railway workers, passport officers and postal workers who go on strike in the coming weeks.
The wave of strikes, the most intense in Great Britain over several decades, responds to a cost-of-living crisis led by the supply of food and energy after the Covid pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The British government uses the army in the face of strikes
In October approximately 417,000 working days were lost of strikes, the highest number in a decade. The unions ask for it salary increases keep up with inflation, which reached 10.7% in November, just below 11.1% in October, a 40-year high.
The Conservative Government of Liz Truss argues that double-digit wage increases would further raise the inflation and tried to blame the union leaders inconvenience to citizens.
The British regret Brexit and the politicians defend it
Opinion polls show a high level of support for workersespecially to nurseswhose strikes in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are the first in the century of history of her union, the Royal College of Nurses.
JL PAR
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