Britain grinds to a halt as half a million workers go on strike
2/1/23
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from The Washington Post,
2/1/23:
A long-running dispute over pay and working conditions came to a head on Wednesday, with hundreds of thousands of British workers taking part in what organizers said was the biggest day of industrial action in over a decade.
Around 500,000 workers joined in the day of mass action, with teachers, train drivers, university lecturers, bus drivers, civil servants and airport staff staging a walkout. The huge show of discontent comes amid rampant inflation and years of stagnant wage growth, and puts further pressure on the long-ruling Conservative government grappling with a cost-of-living crisis.
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