Nearly four million working days have been lost to industrial action in the past year, according to new analysis, which finds that the strikes sparked by soaring inflation and years of stagnating pay are Britain’s most intensive since the 1980s.
As workers battle with the government and private employers to ease “severe” real-terms wage cuts, the extent to which key sectors have ground to a halt – at times, literally – has been further evidenced in a new report by the Resolution Foundation.
