More than 100,000 workers from across all kinds of industries will walk out in a national day of strike action next week. Unions for civil servants, teachers, doctors and railway workers, have declared that March 15 will be a strike day.
Employees from HM Revenue and Customers, Companies House and the Care Quality Commission recently voted in favour of the walkout. Teachers, junior doctors and Tube workers will be among those joining them on the picket line.
The decision to walk out on March 15 has been timed to match Jeremy Hunt’s annual budget and hopes to pile pressure on the Chancellor to raise the pay of hundreds of thousands of workers. Unions are calling for wage increases that match the rate of inflation as workers struggle with the rising cost of living.
