Hundreds of thousands of employees face a “summer of discontent” as Boris Johnson yesterday went to war with workers asking for pay rises.
Staff across sectors from transport to telecoms, hospitals to leisure centres, and bin collectors, bus drivers and postal workers have either gone on strike or could stage walkouts.
While some are asking for pay rises to keep pace with soaring living costs, others just want a decent wage increase. It came as the PM triggered a backlash by warning of a 1970s-style “wage price spiral”.
