UK doctors and rail workers are embarking on a fresh round of strikes, continuing months of damaging industrial action that’s hobbled public services and hurt the UK economy.
Senior doctors in England are due to start a two-day walkout at 7 a.m. on Thursday, prolonging a dispute over pay that their union, the British Medical Association, argues has suffered more than a decade of real-terms cuts. Before their action ends, some 20,000 rail workers with the RMT union will strike over pay and conditions, affecting 14 train operators from just after midnight on Saturday morning.
“In some areas only around half of train services will run, while other parts of the country will have fewer or even no services at all,” the RDG said on its website. Sunak had sought to draw a line under the industrial action with a series of pay awards to public sector workers — including a 6% raise for doctors — in July. That didn’t cover rail workers, whose pay is set by the train operators. Nevertheless, the government has sought to play a facilitative role in those discussions, and the unions argue that their remuneration also relies on government funding for the rail network.
That’s a threat to Sunak’s pledge to get NHS waiting lists down, one of five core promises he’s told voters to judge him by.
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