Thousands of unhappy workers will take to the picket line tomorrow as they continue to fight against "measly" wage increases in the face of rising food costs, massive energy bills and the soaring overall cost of living.
The planned walk-out is the latest a long series of strike action sweeping across the country.
Rail workers, street cleaners, nurses, emergency services staff, dock workers, civil servants, and teachers and lecturers are just some of those who have taken industrial action in recent months, as sectors unite under a common demand for better pay and working conditions following 12 years of austerity.
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Here are all the workers going on strike tomorrow, February 1.
Train drivers and transport workers
RMT members from 14 different train operators will walk out tomorrow as the long-running row over pay and working conditions continues. Trains run by Chiltern Railways, Cross Country Trains, Greater Anglia, LNER, East Midlands Railway, c2c, Great Western Railway, Northern Trains, South Eastern, South Western Railway, Transpennine Express, Avanti West Coast, West Midlands Trains and GTR will be affected.
The union has called for a significant pay increase to keep up with the soaring rate of inflation - rejecting Network Rail's recent offer of a 5% pay rise backdated to January 2022, with another 4% at the start of 2023.
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: "Our negotiations will continue with the rail operators to create a package on jobs, conditions and pay that can be offered to our members."
Teachers
Teacher members of the National Education Union in England and Wales voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action, with a majority of 90.44% in England and 92.28% in Wales.
Dr Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, joint General Secretaries of the NEU, said: "We have continually raised our concerns with successive education secretaries about teacher and support staff pay and its funding in schools and colleges, but instead of seeking to resolve the issue they have sat on their hands. It is disappointing that the Government prefers to talk about yet more draconian anti-strike legislation, rather than work with us to address the causes of strike action.
"This is not about a pay rise but correcting historic real-terms pay cuts. Teachers have lost 23% in real-terms since 2010, and support staff 27% over the same period. The average 5% pay rise for teachers this year is some 7% behind inflation. In the midst of a cost of living crisis, that is an unsustainable situation.
"The Government has also been happy to sit by as their own recruitment targets are routinely missed. Teachers are leaving in droves, a third gone within five years of qualifying. This is a scandalous waste of talent and taxpayers' money, yet the Government seems unbothered about the conditions they are allowing schools and colleges to slide into."
University and college union members
More than 70,000 staff at 150 universities, including the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University, are due to take part in 18 days of strike action over two months, starting tomorrow.
The University and College Union (UCU) said employers must "substantially improve" on their 4-5% pay offer to avoid disruption, demanding "a meaningful pay rise to deal with the cost-of-living crisis as well as action to end the use of insecure contracts".
Civil servants
Some 100,000 Public and Commercial Services Union members from 122 different government departments, including National Museums Liverpool, voted to strike over the government's "measly" 2% pay rise offer.
The union said: "With inflation over 10% and the government offering a measly 2%, we can't afford not to win this dispute. As well as this, one-day strike of all members, we have called hard-hitting, targeted action over long periods to put real industrial pressure on the government, including the Home Office, Border Force, Department for Transport and Defra."
London bus drivers
Around 1,900 bus drivers employed by Abellio announced their plans to strike after rejecting two pay offers from the company. Unite the Union general secretary Sharon Graham said: “Abellio is an incredibly wealthy company, whose success is based on the hard graft of its workers. It can fully afford to make a fair pay offer which meets our members’ expectations, but it has failed to do so."
More than 50 routes will be affected in the capital.
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