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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Adam Maidment

Bus drivers, BT workers and 'wildcats': Week of strike action sees thousands of employees stage walk-outs

Over the last few months, strike action and 2022 have become as closely attached as Boris Johnson was to Brexit.

Thousands of workers in a wide mix of industries have either recently begun strike action or set out their intentions to take such moves in the coming months.

Already branded the ‘summer of discontent’, it has been warned that the country is on the cusp of seeing levels of industrial action unseen since the winter 1978, which was characterised by widespread strikes by private, and later public sector trade unions.

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