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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Richard Partington in Felixstowe

Workers’ anger at cost of living as strong as time of poll tax riots, union boss says

Unite general secretary Sharon Graham
Unite’s general secretary, Sharon Graham, speaks to her members on a picket line at one of the entrances to the Port of Felixstowe on Wednesday 24 August. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

British workers are at breaking point, with anger over the cost of living crisis reaching a level not seen since the poll tax riots of the 1990s, the head of one of the UK’s most powerful trade unions has said.

Sharon Graham, the general secretary of Unite, said frustration at pay failing to keep pace with soaring inflation was spilling over into a wave of strike action that would extend from a summer of discontent into the winter.

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