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Christina kitchener, prosecutors say she diverted public funds and let the biggest corruptions came in argentinas history during her term as president between 272015 heavy rains have left spots of the u. S. City of dallas underwater. Several people had to be rescued from their vehicles, and hundreds of fives have been cancelled this month is the 2nd wet his on record for the area. And those are the headlines on al jazeera inside story is coming up next, stay with us. Mm hm. Its being called britains summer of strikes. Tens of thousands of workers across different sectors have moved off the job. They want better pay and conditions to combat record high inflation will businesses and government leaders meet their demands. This is inside story. Ah hello and welcome to the program. Im laura kyle. Workers in the u. K. Have launch some of their most disruptive industrial action in years with living costs hitting a 40 year high. They want more pay and better conditions. Tens of thousands of transport staff postal employees and even lawyers have walked off the job. And for the 1st time and 30 years dock workers also went on strike at britons launches container. Port trade unions accused Business Leaders of putting prophets ahead of workers that the government says union bosses are holding the country to ransom. Were bringing our guests in just a moment. First, harry force it has more from felix to port in the east of england. The Worlds Largest container ship at britains largest container port the ever a lot arrived on thursday and normally would be long gone by now. But strike action by felix. Those 900100 duck workers, has stopped operations. The unite union says a recently increased offer of a 7 percent pay rise doesnt keep pace with spiraling inflation. Its seeking a double digit raise that it says would share surging corporate profits. 71000000. 00 at last count more equitably with the workers. Now unfortunately, weve yet to be given an offer, which we think we can take back in, which reflects our members as ration and talking to members today in which were in a position that there you can see weve, weve had that message sent back to its loud and clear felix to port says it was reminded in recent days by the bank of england of the inflation re effects of big pay rises. The port company accuses the union of using the Workers International struggle. On average workers, this is an extra 3 and a half 1000 pounds in cash to them each year. The action that theyre taking now that united is making them taking not having to put this offer to all workers, but the action that united is making them take is actually going to take the best part of a 1000 pounds out of their pocket. The question is, how far the effects of this shut down will ripple through the u. K. Economy. The port says the effects will be manageable, pointing to the Lessons Learned during the supply chain. Disruption of the pandemic. Suddenly, the ever a lot isnt going anywhere anytime soon. And some Industry Analysis suggest other container ship as are already offloading the cargo in europe. Instead of the u. K. The union accepts that will be major disruption and says that it could carry out further strikes as it seeks. What it says is a fair deal up the road in ipswich, adams scotts printing and embroidery business relies on imported materials, textiles, inc, and vinyl. He supports the right to strike, but is worried about further shocks to a supply chain thats already stretched and only getting costlier. Historically way wed have maybe to price wise as of 2 to 3 percent, Something Like that. Were now looking at, you know, 8 to 10 percent price rises monthly from our suppliers, so its not like a challenging environment for us over the last. So yeah. This sundays cargo it felix though, was restricted to day trippers. All sides are settling in for a long wait for this dispute to be resolved and is just one among many a long summer of industrial action, and Economic Uncertainty isnt yet over. Hurry for, sit al jazeera felix, all the nation wide strikes have brought parts of britains rail network to a standstill and cause days of disruptions. Only one in 5 trains were running on thursday and saturday. Londons underground transport has been hit by for 24 hour war counts. This year has had a knock on effect on other services where there werent any strikes, including the eurostar, criminal lawyers and rubbish collectors also stopped working. Its not just the public sector, private company is also being affected. Sarvard telecoms giant bt stopped work for 4 days at the end of july for the 1st time, and 35 years. Amazon warehouse staff have also staged walk outs. And some proposed strikes have been halted after pay deals were agreed. These include some by british airways, ground staff, and plain refueling. That london heathrow airport. But other work as a holding firm, hostile staff plan action later this month. And teachers and Health Workers have hinted at possible walk out if they dont get pay deals, they consider acceptable. Ah, lets bring in our guests at this point and all of all of them are joining us from lunch. And we have stephen carson, hes the general secretary of the International Transport workers federation. Push been thing is an economist at the center for economic and business research. And Charles Cunningham is the founder of the Public Relations agency. Trafalgar strategy and former head of press at the u. K. Prime Ministers Office from 2015 to 16, a very warm welcome to all of you stephen. Lets start by just discussing why all these strikes are happening right now. Hey, so i think weve got an extraordinary situation. I think you mentioned in the presentation transport workers, wherever they fit, rail workers, Truck Drivers who did their part for the kind of the period and now with enormous levels of inflation not seen for 40 years. And frankly, people are extremely worried about meeting their. Ready and their commitments at a time when is clearly a void of leadership in the politics in the u. K. And now ready solution. So all of the cases you mention are actually strikes voted on by the workers themselves. So i think the message to a global audience is, workers of had enough, i did their power for it, and now they recognized extreme increase in cost off the scale. And theyre asking for a just and fair, equitable solution. Question, do you, do you agree with that that workers, that people, the society at large is facing stream rising cost and that this is an unworkable situation if it continues as it is for sure. Like i mentioned before, inflation is almost a definite 40 year high and inspiring out of control. I think the most recent data on earnings as well shows real p decreasing by 3 percent compared to quote the last quarter to and get between inflation and earnings have never been higher since record started 2 decades ago. So definitely a lot of it is firing up by running out of control and a lot must be done to help households actually manage the bills and actually survive the cost of that because thats where is the government. And all of this, there is a gap that people work as a feeling that they use strikes as last resort and try to negotiate. They feel that guessing anywhere, why not just living streets unprecedented times and just have gotten off on president s in package of intervention during the quarter paid up money and trying to get the economy back on its feet. Now i have been hit by these sort of 40 year, however, fewer by the war, ukraine, which is a rock and a hard place. Were going to have to pay for this at some point and everybody across the board. If they do, you are giving to the tomorrow, then youre going to have down the guy across the board, you know, and its not just published because people facing these challenges as well. You know, the reason its going to phrase or matching conscious keep failing or what put them out. Theyre going to put out a 400. 00 pounds package for households hit by the rising cost of energy. There are number of one of the payments with different prices. So its very, i mean, politics are they saw, i think the most common sentiment is probably with the government. A lot of people guarantee its very difficult, difficult time. So there is pain coming out. Of course, if we have this for my son preston, situation where he talks about criminal teachers, other public sectors walking out there in the political are huge. Principal dangerous calls the government because at some point our suspect the public patience will run out. Or you raise a number of different points that i want to pick up on one of them, stephen, just saying public sentiment is with the government at the moment. Do you agree with that . Would you believe that youve got the support of the general public . Well, i think you can probably move in different circles if on frank reality is most people are very, very concerned about meeting their bills. So the public sentiment certainly from our experience of our affiliates, you know, i, r, m t as left. So those are rails and the felix and strike is that theres a lot of solidarity. And you know, felix though has been one of the successful polls. The 1st strike in 30 years probably says the whole, theres been very responsible approach to industrial action. And the reality is, we, you know, the ideological comment to also be picking you up is given to this as a reality is people see so much wealth accumulated in the talk elements of our society. And weve heard all of these Companies Taking share dividends. These are extreme sets of circumstances, the cost of living is 40 year high. We need to look at this in a different way, workers collaborating throughout the pandemic to keep those that are in the Global Supply chain to keep the world moving. We think and we believe that the transfer workers in todays world should be shown the same level of respect in a moment of crisis. We should be looking at how do we come up with economic fiscal approach to help distribute the well, if you can or take so much money out peoples pockets per month and not expect to. Ready action, so for us all the feedback, we have all the chat rooms that were party to have a look on twitter. There is a very strong sense of injustice for people who feel that the money is being taken in their pocket and they dont have any control on the situation. But then what do you think of that . Do you agree that there is enough money to go around . There is enough money to combat this situation in the u. K right now, but it just concentrated in the wrong places. I think definitely its gonna text a lot when the Government Finance treasury, as mentioned before, a lot of spending the sun during the career to help a lot of workers and those key workers passed and off workers we distressed in calling to get to those guys properly as far, finally, and what now we have based on present the inflationary environment where more spending needs to be done. But it definitely is going to tax the treasury a lot and it is, or if theres going to be handouts or tax cuts either way, it has to be financed by more boring, which already put street. So is there a lot of money going on . Frankly, not really, but a lot of Cost Effective and a lot of smart ways have to be thought up by the next come in terms of how this is going to be public promulgated and implemented. I tell some, some would say that the conservatives are not offering a solution on the number of reasons why people say the concept is not offering solutions, not least of that. Theres no clear leadership at them, but well get on to that in just a moment. But another reason perhaps, is that vast public spending is simply not in the tory dna. And therefore, as the conservatives find it very difficult to propose more money to be offered to people. Well, i mean, youre right, they load trucks and a lot less intervention company. Youve been to venture government in recent history ration to theyve intervened in a certain process by georgia. Fundamentally, what we do is trust premise shit by oregon wensel tax against the big oil companies. I think in the, in the long term it just damages the investment environment puts coming here. What we need is a low tax environment where to attract businesses. But also, we have the smallest about Energy Sources about about to be Energy Companies have been lower costs, energy as well. But i mean, come back to the 4 things that are probably spending. This is the problem. There isnt unprecedented types of cash in the reserves and government, a huge change levels which have high rates of interest. And we just storing up more part of the long term. There is no regions, and this is something which is not just unique to something which is comes across here. I mean, i think one thing which has become apartments has been too much reliance on russia for energy. And now were paying the price for joe says that the has been intervention on the energy prices, and yet they are still rising. They are in this tool set to rise this winter. Theyve gone up from 1200. 00, on average last year to 3400. 00 pounds. Thats a huge rise for most people. Why are they not . Why it can it not happen that the Energy Companies themselves a forced to charge less, that proper caps a put on prices . You can do that. Theres no just no see how in terms of what can be done, what can be done the for problem with that is putting a cap of prices to protect households. Yes, it would definitely in, in terms of alleviating the cost of households and especially low income households will definitely protect them from paying the extra just need an extra incentives needed. Right. Its supposed to happen october and in january as well, where we can see the price increasing to a 5000. 00 pounds. I think the most recent one to my 6000 i saw today, but putting the price get also this thought putting a cap on the price can itself actually distort pricing those by because by doing so, in the sense call households and consumers wont be kind of very about how much the energy bills are increasing and at the same regular use that theyre doing it now doing as of now and without seeing kind of change and the price is due to the cap. It distorts a lot of signals and adds a lot of actuation a lot as a lot of not going to affect the economy. So that has a very dangerous effect Going Forward as well. So putting the cap is not exactly feasible. Ok, and stevens, i would say that the strikes have not gone affects the economy as well. The critics would say that they cause a wage price spiral, of course, were rising wages would feed into this cycle of inflation. I think as weve seen in the past, industrial relations before coated on many occasions as a founder solution thats been satisfactory by for. Ready private companies and for the government, the situation we have at the moment is a feeling that people are actually losing that purchasing power at the same time of mass. Now i think human nature is such that i think, particularly in the u. K. A sense of whats fair and theres a feeling at the moment that there are still large dividends coming out of work to spite and assets, including some of the Energy Companies. Im making enormous amounts of money for people that are not able to put it back. And therefore, the majority of the study is the number of studies, citibank perceives that we could be as high as i think its 14 percent at the end of 12. 2 percent by the end of the year by 18 point c. By january 2023, with these numbers coming out and workers feel they have no choice but to stop. And as weve said, youve got very strong labels that require a very big process of getting majority to, to win the right to strike. What were seeing is meant support for the strikes from the workers. And i would argue from, from the society is a large because i think, you know, and if we look at the situation p and i, ferries, where so many workers are stacked and call such outright. Theres a feeling that big business can do what it likes. And the government is kind of colluding with the process. So for working men and women the opportunity to withdraw their labor is frankly the last stand. And we would actively through this process not. Ready discouraged business from coming from the k, but also be in a position to encourage people back to the table. Everybody wants security in their jobs for to pay the bills and then be i