British rail workers today kicked off the new year with a week-long strike, disrupting the return to work for millions of commuters across Britain in the latest bout of industrial action to hit the country
Britain is in the grip of its worst run of worker unrest since Margaret Thatcher was in power in the 1980s, as surging inflation follows more than 10 years of stagnant wage growth, leaving many workers unable to make ends meet.
"Trains will be busier and likely to start later and finish earlier, and there will be no services at all in some places." A YouGov poll published in December found two-thirds of Britons support the nurses' strike. The majority of those surveyed said the government was most to blame for the action and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak could suffer if the disruption runs through 2023.
"All the parties involved know what needs to be done to get a settlement, but the government is blocking that," Mr Lynch told the BBC.
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