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UK Loses Another Half a Million Days to Strikes in One Month
Security workers during a strike at London Heathrow Airport in London, on March 31.
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Britain’s economy lost another half a million working days to strikes in March amid the most severe round of industrial action in nearly four decades.
The UK has now lost more than 3.5 million days to walkouts since the Office for National Statistics began collecting the data last June following a pause during the Covid pandemic.