Nazim Al-Zahavi, head of Britain’s ruling Conservative Party, hinted today that the British government could use the army to help ensure public services continue if workers strike in key sectors, including the Public Health Authority.
Al-Zahavi said: “Our message to the unions is that now is not the time for strikes, but for searching and negotiating. But in the absence of this, it is important for the government to have alternative plans.” ambulances.
The UK is facing a wave of workers’ strikes as strikes spread across the British transport network and last week Britain’s Royal College of Nursing Union announced dates for the first strike for its members in over 100 years. low wages, exacerbating the wave of strikes that swept the country.
In various sectors of the economy and in the public sector, strikes are multiplying in protest against wages that are depreciating in the light of the highest inflation in decades and rising consumer prices.
And the Union of Public and Commercial Services, which represents many civil servants, has announced that the road workers will stage a series of strikes from December 16 to January 7 that will paralyze life in the country. Because the strike will coincide with other scheduled railroad strikes.
The action follows a vote last month by 124 government departments and other public bodies in favor of the strike; Demand a 10% pay rise and so on.