this is bbc news. we ll have the headlines and all the main news for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. across the uk, people are on strike. in england. there is a growing anger in this country. ..scotland. workers united, will united, will never be defeated! ..northern ireland. ..and wales. how are people going to pay these bills? i workers spent more days on strike in 2022 than in any time since the 1980s. unions and bosses are further apart than ever. so why are they striking, and is there an end in sight?
the general strike. 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 their miners out on their own. they were ultimately unsuccessful in that the national system of pay awarded to abolish coal mining. system of pay awards was abolished in coal mining. chanting. fast forward to the 19705 and 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 out. workers were attempting to protect themselves against attacks on their cost of living. and they were on strike because many of them worked for the public sector, and their wages were being controlled downwards by the then labour government, who was trying to seek a way out
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