UK's teachers and civil servants join biggest strikes in years on 'Walkout Wednesday'

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Up to half a million British teachers, civil servants, train drivers and university lecturers walked out over pay and conditions on Wednesday in the largest coordinated strike action in Britain in a generation, causing widespread disruption.

With inflation running at more than 10% - the highest level in four decades - Britain has seen a wave of strikes in recent months across different sectors, including health and transport workers, Amazon warehouse employees and Royal Mail postal staff.

"What we cannot do is give inflation busting pay rises to one part of the workforce and make inflation worse for everybody. That's not an economically sensible thing to do," she told the BBC.

 

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Teachers join mass walkout in Britain after decade-long pay squeezeLondon school teacher Lucy Preston will miss her son's fourth birthday on Thursday because she has to work a second job in the evening as a private tutor to make sure she can pay for her childcare and mortgage. If a person's annual increase is less than inflation then they're not being paid more; they're being paid less. If you treat your workers right then they won't have to strike. Time for government change in UK I remember long ago graduating from a University with a Bachelor's in Education. My first job I made 21,000 a year with my counties school district. It was 1993. Still, an issue worldwide.
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