Today, Wednesday, a broad labor strike began in Britain, the largest in 10 years, as 5 labor unions (unions of school teachers, train and bus drivers, security guards, university lecturers, and civil servants) announced a strike to protest low wages and demand an increase in their salaries in light of Expensive wave.
About 300,000 teachers and nearly 100,000 civil servants from more than 120 government departments, and tens of thousands of university lecturers and workers in the railway sector will participate in the strike today.
More strikes are planned by nurses, paramedics, emergency call staff and other healthcare workers, and this week fire brigades backed the idea of a nationwide strike.
Today's strike will see schools closed, the army ready to provide assistance at the border, and rail services will stop in most parts of the country.
It is also expected that 23 thousand schools across the country will be affected.
It is expected that thousands of people will join the (central London) march that will reach the Prime Minister's office in Westminster to demand a rise in wages.
The Union - the largest union of public sector employees - warned Treasury Secretary Jeremy Hunt that the strikes would continue unless he worked to provide the required wage increases.
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On the other hand, the country will witness protests against plans for a new law to limit strikes, which, according to unions, may cause the dismissal of workers who vote legally to strike.
"After years of brutal wage declines, nurses, teachers and millions of other government employees have seen their living standards plummet and are poised to suffer even more misery on wages," said Paul Nowak, general secretary of the Congress of Trade Unions, which groups a number of unions under its umbrella.
"Instead of planning new ways to attack the right to strike, ministers should raise salaries at the level of economic sectors, starting with an appropriate increase in the salaries of workers in the public sector," he added.
The British government says measures will be taken to "mitigate" the consequences of the strikes, but they will have a major impact.
"We are confident that this will disrupt people's lives, which is why we believe negotiation - not strike - is the right approach," a spokesman for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told reporters.
Britain has witnessed a wave of strikes, from workers in the health and transport sectors to Amazon warehouse workers and Royal Mail employees, with the inflation rate increasing to more than 10%, the highest level in 4 decades.
The strikers are demanding wage increases that are higher than inflation rates to cover the costs of food and energy, which they say add acute pressure on them and make them feel unappreciated as it is not enough to meet their needs.