In fact British Health Service (NHS) workers fighting to increase the influence of their salary 1.6 million workers. The payout battle is inextricably linked with the battle to save and restore the NHS as a free-for-all public service. Real wage cuts, increased workloads and nearly three years of labor crackdowns during the pandemic have left the NHS with 130,000 unfilled jobs in the UK alone. 12 percent of nurses and 7 percent of doctors are missing.

This shortfall has been combined with a similar but more serious shortage in the social services sector (165,000 fewer workers) and underinvestment in buildings and equipment, leading to endless waiting lists. Long waits are now common, even for emergency care: ambulances are parked outside hospitals waiting for patients to enter and are often not available for emergencies.

It health workers and ambulance worker They are preparing to go on strike starting Thursday. However, the demand for living wages for health workers is increasing the NHS budget and that against privatization this is not just for NHS workers, but for the entire working class.

Nurses from National Health Service they voted overwhelmingly, for the first time in 106 years at the College of Nursing, in favor of a calendar of strike days through January.

last week GMB Union and Unison, a a public service union with 1.3 million members, announced that they were supporting the strike at the ambulance company England and Wales. Sanitation workers plan pickets to extend the strike. The government knew that a week before Christmas a picket of workers would lead to a political disaster. Opinion polls show that more than half of the population supports the workers’ strike.

A number of 70,000 university and faculty workers went on strike recently, organized mass demonstrations in support of the workers.

Mobilization of the army against the workers

Facing an avalanche of mobilization, that is Prime Minister Rishi Sunak prepare new laws for “protect citizens from strikes”. This is really a state of emergency, emergency powers and dismissal of the strikers. Anti-union laws will be added to measures to ban protests and demonstrations in the streets.

Newspaper sun reported on Saturday, December 3: “Rishi Sunak is considering a new ’emergency force’ to end the winter strike. Downing Street has asked ministers for more options to stop coordinated efforts by unions to cripple Britain.” The article goes on to say: “Measures will be added to legislation currently before Parliament to guarantee a minimum level of service on -strike days in key sectors such as railways. The package could include facilities for employers to replace strikers permanently.”

According to her Timestrike is”a test that Rishi Sunak and the conservatives are not allowed to fail.” In an editorial, he argued that conservatives should show they can handle big problems. And that “there is no more pressing challenge than averting the strike wave that threatens to paralyze large sections of the public and private sectors.”

Government decision to “Requiring unions to guarantee a minimum level of service during strikes is heartening.” According to her Time, forcing workers to provide services on strike day can lead to “severe fines for unions that do not comply with their demands”. there is “reasons for extending mandatory minimum service levels to sectors such as nursing”.

Editor in Chief of Telegraph, Ben Marlowcommentator, wrote: “The government must stand firm and stand against the unions. It is imperative that ministers expedite legislation on minimum services so that the majority of the country cannot continue to be held hostage to the intimidation tactics of a minority, who are willing to do anything to destroy them.”

It sky chain has announced the mobilization of 2,000 troops by the government to guarantee the possibility of driving ambulances, the minimum service for rail circulation. This was meant to force the union leaders to negotiate from a position of weakness.