FCA Staff Play Bob Marley and Protest Pay in First Ever Strike

Staff at the Financial Conduct Authority strike in a dispute over pay and conditions outside their offices in London, on May 4.

Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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Financial Conduct Authority staff waved placards and called for better pay while blasting “Get Up, Stand Up” by Bob Marley from a small sound system during the first strike in the watchdog’s nine-year history.

Around 30 staff and union officials carried union flags and chanted “exploitation ain’t the way, employees deserve their pay,” beneath the regulator’s east London headquarters on Wednesday morning.