the government of the time, including the chancellor of the exchequer, winston churchill, refused to back down. after nine days, most unions called off their strikes, leaving the miners out on their own. they were ultimately unsuccessful in that the national system of pay awards was abolished in coal mining. protesters: two, four, six, eight, castle must negotiate! fast forward to the 1970s and the so called winter of discontent, rolling strikes across lots of industries stopped work. rubbish piled up in the streets as refuse collectors joined the walk outs. workers were attempting to protect themselves against attacks on their cost of living and they were on strike because many of them worked in the public sector and their wages were being controlled downwards by the then labour government that was trying to seek a way out of the high levels of inflation in britain in the 19705,
including the chancellor of the exchequer, winston churchill, refused to back down. after nine days, most unions called off their strikes, leaving their miners out on their own. they were ultimately unsuccessful in that the national system of pay awards was abolished in coal mining. chanting. fast forward to the 19705 and so called winter of discontent. rolling 5trike5 acro55 lots of industries stopped work. rubbish piled up in the streets as refuse collectors joined the walk out. workers were attempting to protect themselves against attacks on their cost of living. and they were on strike because many of them worked in the public sector, and their wages were being controlled downwards by the then labour government, who was trying to seek a way out
the biggest real terms pay cut in decades has prompted strikes from refuse collectors to ambulance workers. 467,000 working days were lost because of labour disputes in november, the highest for 12 years. employers are now recruiting fewer permanentjobs and more temporary ones. there s also something new that has emerged over the last couple of months, and i would not call it gloom for employers, it isjust a bit of caution where they are looking at a soft economy and thinking let s just wait and see how this plays out. and you see that for instance in the use of more temporary workers in today s numbers. the bank of england is now under greater pressure to raise interest rates next month. andy verity, bbc news. train drivers from aslef are to strike on 1st and 3rd of february after union bosses rejected a pay offer from the rail companies. drivers had been offered a 4% pay rise for two years but the deal hinged on several changes to working practices.
already hit hard by soaring energy prices to the point where the boss is thinking of shrinking the business. fuel is just terrifying. pre price increase, we were paying probably £40,000 a year, we are now paying, and the year is not even over, 120,000 is the bill so far. the help is minimal. it s putting a sticking plaster over a septic spot, really, isn t it? with inflation close to a 40 year high, pay has risen in the private sector by 7.2%, too little to keep up with price rises, and in the public sector by only 3.3%, a real terms pay cut of more than 5.5%. that means workers, public and private, are getting poorer. in the public sector, average wages are no higher than they were in 2005. from refuse collectors to ambulance staff, that large real time pay cut has prompted strikes across a public sector suffering an acute acute shortage of staff. 467,000 working days were lost because of labour disputes in november, the highest for 12 years. but some economists welcomed a stronger s
that means workers, public and private, are getting poorer. in the public sector, average wages are no higher than they were in 2005. from refuse collectors to ambulance staff, that large real time pay cut has prompted strikes across a public sector suffering an acute acute shortage of staff. 467,000 working days were lost because of labour disputes in november, the highest for 12 years. but some economists welcomed a stronger set of figures than they expected. we are still seeing job vacancies exceeding 1.1 million, for example. that is quite remarkable, it is quite striking and i think it will perhaps add pressure on the bank of england to raise interest rates further in the coming months. on the latest indicators, employers reported even bigger pay rises in the year to december of 7.7% as firms compete for staff from a small pool of available workers. that too will add to pressure on interest rate setters at the bank of england to raise interest rates sharply when they meet next mon