What’s behind the UK’s “summer of strikes”? | Inside Story

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Workers in the UK have launched some of their most disruptive industrial action in years.

With living costs hitting a 40-year high, they want more pay and better conditions.

Tens of thousands of transport staff, postal employees, rubbish collectors and even lawyers have walked off the job.

And for the first time in 30 years, dock workers also went on strike at Britain’s largest container port.

Health workers and teachers are among those threatening to strike soon.

Trade unions accuse business leaders of putting profits ahead of employees, but the government says union bosses are holding the country to ransom.

Will they be able to find a compromise?

Presenter: Laura Kyle

Guests:

Stephen Cotton – General Secretary, International Transport Workers’ Federation.

Pushpin Singh – Economist, Centre for Economic and Business Research.

Giles Kenningham – Founder, Trafalgar Strategy and former Head of Press, No. 10 Downing Street.

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