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re: Britain on STRIKE: £14ph Junior Doctors' Strike-NHS Braces -Most Disruptive Walkout
UK Strikes: Half a Million Workers Demand ‘Fair Pay’
Hundreds of thousands of workers walk out in biggest strike day in a decade
BBC 3 FEB 2023
One of the largest strikes in a decade
Hundreds of thousands of workers – including school teachers and train drivers – are walking out on strike for what will be the biggest day of industrial action in more than a decade.
Teachers in England and Wales, who are members of the National Education Union, embarked on their first day of strikes on Wednesday, which threaten to disrupt more than 23,000 schools.
More than half (54%) of state schools in England were either fully closed or restricted access to pupils during the first day of walkouts by teachers, Department for Education data has suggested.
With teachers joining picket lines, working parents across England, Wales and Scotland had to make alternative arrangements as many schools and colleges closed to most or all pupils.
Thousands marched in London, where the head of the TUC called on the Prime Minister to "get round the table and deliver on public sector pay".
As well as teachers, also on strike today were around 70,000 University staff from the UCU, some 100,000 civil servants from over 120 government departments and thousands of train workers from RMT unions, as well as some London bus services.
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