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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 10 October 2022 - Truss creating even wider divisions
Description: The spate of strikes seen recently by postal workers and rail staff and a proposed ballot by nurses are a major threat to the economy, a report published at the weekend warns.
It says that Britain is as close to a general strike than at any time for the past fifty years as Government policies drive militancy to a level not seen since the early seventies.
Workers in more sectors of the economy are seeing offers of pay rises fall short of their expectations.
Liz Truss has been criticized for trying to blind side workers who are seeing real wages...