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Nearly 4m fewer UK working days in past year due to strike action, study says (www.theguardian.com)

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Resolution Foundation report says much of industrial action ‘fuelled’ by public sector workers’ anger over falls in real-terms pay

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The thinktank said this meant that pay and conditions in the public sector were unlikely to drift too far apart from those in the private sector, because otherwise it would become increasingly difficult for the public sector to attract workers.

This seems naive when the Tories are in power and would love it if the public sector disappeared. And the opposition are determined not to oppose them at all.