However the British government was unwilling to give in to the strikers’ wage demands, arguing that raising wages in line with inflation would only fuel further inflation. And that would be a disaster for the entire British economy, they say. The current government appears to be just waiting for inflation to fall again, so it can tell the strikers that they are not entitled to a raise at all, explains correspondent Lia van Bekhoven on VRT NWS Live.
In addition to calls for a living wage increase, there are currently also actions against the creation of new laws that would limit the right to strike in various sectors.
“After years of brutal pay cuts, nurses, teachers and millions of other civil servants have seen their living standards fall and will face more pay problems. Rather than looking for new ways to attack the right to strike, there should be pay rises across the economy starting with a decent pay rise for workers in the public sector,” said Paul Nowak, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), an umbrella organization for trade unions.
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