Labor Market
UK’s Summer of Misery Was Just a Prelude of What’s to Come
Workers in schools, hospitals and courts are threatening to walk off the job in coming weeks, setting up more chaos this fall.
Jo Sidhu, barrister, speaks during a protest by criminal lawyers outside the Old Bailey law courts in central London, UK, on Monday, June 27, 2022.
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The strikes that erupted across Britain’s railways and airlines this summer are about to spread across the public services, extending the “summer of discontent” into the autumn and beyond.