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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 19 December 2022 - Strikes to be big feature of 2023
Description: The UK is facing an unprecedented period of industrial unrest as striking railway workers, nurses and ambulance crews as well as airport staff and teachers create havoc that is going to last well into the New Year and beyond.
Striking workers do not accept the Government’s stance over pay and conditions. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, has told the leaders of worker’s unions that their demands for inflation busting wage settlements are simply unrealistic and unaffordable.
On the whole, the public are adopting a Stoic attitude towards the industrial action, showing great sympathy towards health workers sinc...