Walkout Wednesday: Britain hit by biggest strike in decades

Half a million strike in UK as cost-of-living crisis bites

LONDON, Feb 2 — Half a million people stopped work over pay in Britain on Wednesday leaving transport networks paralysed and thousands of classrooms empty in the largest walkout in over a decade. As Europe battles a cost-of-living crisis, Britain’s umbrella labour organisation the Trades Union Congress (TUC) called it the “biggest day of strike action since 2011”. The latest round of stoppages comes a day after more than 1.27 million took to the…

Half a million UK workers strike

The strikes were called to coincide with the passage through Parliament by the Conservative government of new anti-strike legislation, representing the greatest threat to workers’ democratic rights ever mounted.

Half a million join mass strike in Britain on 'Walkout Wednesday'

Up to half a million British teachers, civil servants, and train drivers walked out over pay in the largest coordinated strike action for a decade on Wednesday, with unions threatening more disruption as the government digs its heels in over pay demands. The mass walkouts across the country shut schools,…

British strike biggest in a decade

Up to half a million teachers, civil servants, train drivers and university lecturers have walked out over pay and conditions in the largest coordinated strike action in Britain in a generation.

UK strikes: half a million workers demand ‘fair pay’

Up to half a million striking workers made today the biggest mass action in the UK since 2011.

British public sector strike is biggest in years

The last time so many sectors were stopped at the same time in the UK was in 2011, when one million people quit work.