Britain Suffers Most Days Lost to Strikes Since Thatcher
- Economists estimate 1.5 million days lost in December
- Royal Mail workers and rail staff account for most of the time
Demonstrators hold placards on a picket line, near the Houses of Parliament, during a strike by NHS nursing staff outside St. Thomas' Hospital in London, on Dec. 15.
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Britain is enduring the highest number of strikes since Margaret Thatcher was prime minister, according to estimates by a group of economists.
Rail workers, nurses, ambulance drivers, postal delivery staff, bus drivers and civil servants are among those protesting for higher pay to offset the cost-of-living crisis. At the latest reading, UK inflation was 10.7%.