UK Royal Mail workers, university lecturer begin fresh strike as inflation skyrockets
Britain is facing more industrial action as postal workers, university lecturers and staffers have renewed their strike in protest at low payment and employment conditions.
The strikes took place on Wednesday, featuring Royal Mail workers, university lecturers, and teachers "in 77 sixth-form colleges."
The mass protest action saw lines forming outside Royal Mail centers, universities, and further education colleges.
The University and College Union (UCU) General Secretary Jo Grady said, "University staff are prepared to do whatever it takes to win decent pay, secure employment, and fair pensions, and vice chancellors need to understand that they cannot simply ride this out. Students and staff are united like never before."
Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), said, "The overwhelming majority of teachers in sixth-form colleges will receive a five percent pay rise this year, which simply doesn't deal with the effects of inflation."
The strikes come as the country is grappling with a soaring cost-of-living crisis.
Various labor unions across the UK are preparing for similar protest actions ahead of Christmas.
Pending industrial action is slated to include Royal Mail workers, who "are planning seven more strikes before Christmas," the Daily Mail reported.
As many as "100,000 nurses" have also confirmed plans for joining the strikes during December.
The government has warned of a challenging winter if services stopped working.
Experts say the soaring cost-of-living crisis has engulfed the whole of Europe, with workers going on strike every now and then across the continent, disrupting both local and international schedules, particularly during holidays.
They link the soaring living costs in Europe, in particular, and partially in the entire world, in general, to COVID-19 and the Ukraine war.
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