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People take part in a rally outside the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, as members of the University and College Union (UCU) take part 24-hour stoppage among university staff in an ongoing dispute over pay, pensions and conditions
TENS of thousands of underpaid Royal Mail workers, university lecturers and sixth form college staff walked out today in one of the biggest strike days of 2022’s year of industrial unrest.
Picket lines nationwide saw strong support from the public as the fightback against more than a decade of Tory austerity pay and attacks on working conditions and pensions gathers pace.
Railway workers are set to continue their six-month industrial action with a series of 48-hour strikes over the next two months, while NHS staff and ambulance workers could down tools across England, Wales and Northern Ireland in the run-up to Christmas.
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
