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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Donald Macintyre and Toby Helm

Unions threaten ‘waves of industrial action’ over UK cost of living crisis

Members of the National Education Union join the National TUC cost of living demonstration in London in June.
Members of the National Education Union join the National TUC cost of living demonstration in London in June. Photograph: Guy Smallman/Getty Images

Britain is facing a wave of coordinated industrial action by striking unions this autumn in protest at the escalating cost of living crisis, the Observer can reveal.

A series of motions tabled by the country’s biggest unions ahead of the TUC congress next month demand that they work closely together to maximise their impact and “win” the fight for inflation-related pay rises.

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