It might be a brand new year but there is no end in sight to the industrial action that has seen strikes called across core public services in the UK including trains staff, nurses, ambulance workers, postal services and more.
With the wider public also facing difficult financial circumstances, how are the strikes affecting their lives and public support for the industrial action? We took to the streets of Cardiff to find out.
When asked whether taking industrial action through striking was a good idea, John Fry who lives near Port Talbot said: "I think personally, there's a place for it but at the moment it's gone too far. We're seeing it making a massive difference on the whole community and the whole of society.
