More than 100,000 British civil servants will be laid off on 1 February. This will be the biggest strike in years. Government employees are dissatisfied with their salaries, pensions and job security.

Escalation

This was reported by various British media, incl guard And BBC. A massive strike that will be carried out by no less than 124 government organizations has been announced by the PCS workers union (Public and Commercial Service Union). This is a long-standing escalation of the conflict over UK working conditions civil servantswhich has led to work stoppages in recent weeks.

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Minister in charge Jeremy Quin must put money on the table to prevent a strike, warned Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS union. Otherwise, various public services – such as paying benefits, taking driving tests and issuing passports – will be affected by the strike.

The UK government has offered a 2 to 3 per cent pay rise for civil servants, but unions are demanding 10 per cent, keeping pace with inflation.

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Britain faces a wave of strikes. Training staff, teachers and nurses, among others, recently stopped working to demand higher wages. Thousands of ambulance workers went on strike on Wednesday, for the second time in a short time.

radio announcer BBC now published overview where the service crashed and when. The UK government is working on legislation to limit the number of strikes in the public service. With this, the government wants to guarantee a ‘minimum level of security’.

Rubbish

In the Netherlands too, unions have threatened civil servants’ strikes. The FNV union is demanding a 12 percent wage increase before 2023. The Association of Municipalities of the Netherlands (VNG) is offering 5 percent as of February 1, 2023 and another 3 percent as of April 1, 2024. If VNG does not produce a better offer, by the end of January another garbage man and boas work.