In one of the most important days of mobilization in the country, the conductors of the London Underground trainsin demand of better working conditionshas paralyzed the transport network.
The website of Transport for London (TfL), in charge of the British capital’s underground, shows that there are no operational services on any of the lines.
The drivers, belonging to the Aslef sector union and the Railway, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, went on strike as a protest measure because savings measures in the network can cause a reduction in pensions and working conditions.
Apart from the protest of the subway drivers, the newly licensed physicians and in residence end this Wednesday their 72-hour strike in demand for labor improvementsMeanwhile in England teachers go on strike Also for the same reasons.
Likewise, some 150,000 civil servants who work in more than a hundred government departments came out to march in demand for a salary increase.
In recent months, the United Kingdom has experienced a wave of strikes from different sectors -such as the nursing union, doctors who do residency, ambulance personnel, university professors or postal workers- to demand salary improvements for the increase in the cost of living, since year-on-year inflation exceeds 10%.
