More than 1,000 border control staff involved in checking passports at British airports have gone on strike until the end of this month, to demand better wages.
The strike, which comes against the backdrop of a high price wave hitting Europe, coincides with a series of strikes in the United Kingdom, France, Portugal, and other European countries.
Washington was able to some extent to control the economic situation, unlike what is happening in Europe, which was explained by political science and international relations professor Khalil al-Anani - in his speech to the Behind the News program (23/12/2022) - with the effectiveness of the US Federal Reserve's actions, which made a continuous increase The interest rate, which curbed the increasing inflation that leads to a continuous rise in prices.
There were also preemptive measures with regard to labor strikes in the railway sector, as Washington worked to activate a law preventing railway workers from striking, and wages were raised now and promises of future increases were made so that they would not go on strike that paralyzes economic life in America.
For his part, the former economic adviser to the European Commission, Keith Boyfield, considered that the strikes greatly deepen the crisis of the European economy, especially in light of the continuous rise in prices, but he believed at the same time that high energy prices will make European countries more cautious about the rational use of energy and resort to alternative energies.
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In the context of a wave of strikes, the Federation of Public and Commercial Services in Britain warned that it may last 6 months, and the Nursing Union announced a new strike in England on the 18th and 19th of next month, days after it returned from another strike.
The announcement of the planned strike also coincides with the involvement of more than a thousand border control employees - concerned with examining passports of travelers at several British airports - in strikes to demand higher wages, in light of an unprecedented wave of high prices the country is suffering from.
The strike of border controllers continues until the end of this month, during which more than 10,000 flights are expected to land at those airports, and it is accompanied by another strike that traffic officers started on highways in London and other parts of England yesterday, Thursday, and will continue for 4 days.
Britain is not the only European country afflicted by a wave of high prices, and thus a series of strikes that disrupted several vital sectors in those countries. In Portugal, train traffic was disrupted today, Friday, on the first day of the railway workers' strike, due to inflation and high prices.
This situation is similar to what is happening in France, where drivers, observers, and workers in the French railways are on strike to demand an improvement in their conditions and an increase in their wages.
For its part, the French railway company said that 200,000 passengers were affected by the strike.
This came after the cancellation of two high-speed trains out of 5, while the unions announced the cancellation of the strike, which was scheduled for next week, coinciding with the return of the French from New Year's holidays, after reaching an agreement with the government.