Massive mobilizations and strikes have been witnessed in the UK over the last couple of months against the Tory government for failing to tackle the ongoing cost of living crisis. Postal workers, railway workers, public service workers, barristers, dockers, garbage collectors, Amazon workers etc. have walked out and gone on strike to demand better pay and better working conditions. TRNN delves into the postal workers’ strike and its roots in over a decade of Tory austerity measures. This video is part of a special Workers of the World series on the cost of living crisis in Europe.
This story, with the support of the Bertha Foundation, is part of The Real News Network’s Workers of the World series, telling the stories of workers around the globe building collective power and redefining the future of work on their own terms.
Producer: Alexander Morris
Videographer: Julia Schönheit, Alexander Morris
Video editor: Leo Erhardt
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Anyone who thinks Labour would have done anything different or better has the iq the temperature of an arctic winter.
I would love to be a CEO, a CEO can swap with me anytime! Did a CEO **really** say it was hard being a CEO? I can't believe it.
When is this horrible selfish tory government going to be defeated it is not for the people
Why did labour loose the 2019 uk general election
If the secretary truly believes that Russia has 97% of it's army fighting in Ukraine, I would not like to have him auditing my bank account..
Capitalism is a race to the bottom.
The people are real and speaking truth to corrupt power: SOLIDARITY ✊👏
Lord Haw-Haw calling, replaced by Ofcom calling, you are being manipulated do not resist or you will be called Far right & cancelled. Apathy in public affairs lets evil stupid people into powerful positions. https://youtu.be/v1HG3e9IH5A
Barking up the wrong tree.
The UN is making all the decisions and your gov is doing what its told !!
This is because of privatization, and capitalist greed.
Fight on Brits! Solidarity from Canada ✊️
There probably thinking of replacing you guys with illegal immigrants they work cheap hope not stay strong ok and safe
Inflation is man made, 5 cents used to buy a bag of groceries because the coins had more value, they used more metals for coins, gold and silver etc, now just collected at auctions. Back then the dollar was Gold Standard, but they sneak and lowered the gold standard for the US dollar, and use less metal on the new coins, that's why older coins are worth more, meaning you can work Less Lours not program 9 to 5 and pay value is higher without increasing wage which is scam cuz living expenses are man made. They raise rent and everything else because it's all regulated to keep many slaving. But the US dollar is worth 50 cents or less since they changed it from gold standards, thanks to The Treasury, Federal Reserves, and taxes. So even doing your taxes, since each dollar is not original gold standard, if we were not being slaved, we should get back tripple or more. Even the USA dollar over time start looking like monopoly money. If USA cared about Uniting with everyone, we can work less hours because the dollar and coins increase in value with the Stolen Gold. Besides no one knows who the IRS entities are, not the people working there with suit and ties, those are employees waiting for a check like ever other slave
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Nice to see that even "bad man" "rudebwoys" work at the post office. Hopefully theyre not the ones who nick our post containing bank cards 😑
if the power goes back to the Public again, UK will again lead the world in every aspect and strike is the way forward, Privatizations is the problems it made all the companies run their business corrupted business plan by setting target on their profit turn up, even if the product doesn't meet standard
there should be a law against sacking people and rehiring at the same time, its all about taking away benefits that came with the original job!
Two days after the Parliament past a no strike law out lawing strikes FFS.
Ukraine is more important that your work ethics
Public services should never be profitized, privatized. In fact more commodities and services need to be nationalized. Stop the greedy. Stop those trying to profit on human basic needs. People investing in these things are looking for guaranteed profit with no risk, but it endangers those that depend on necessities. Profit comes with risk, if they can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen. Speculators have no right to disrupt society for their own selfish goals, imo.
Capitalism and the almighty altar of increased profits.
Not profits, but “increased profits” are the SOLE reason for workers being marginalised.
Only “increased profits” drive the stock price up and that’s all the investors, the CEO and his cronies (and our billionaire PM) care about.
To add insult to injury, those increased profits (essentially funded by the workers) are used for what purpose?
No, not to re-invest in the company.
No, not to improve the company. No, not to improve benefits. They’re used to buy-back company stock (to raise the stock price) and to squirrel-away in offshore tax havens so they don’t have to pay tax on it and where it doesn’t benefit the GDP of Britain one iota!
That’s right, no good use at all.
These poor workers get screwed over, to increase profits that are simply not needed – lovely.
They are going to take everything