4 billion pounds shock to British economy because of strikes.
In a report, the Express magazine estimated that the strike by hospitality workers would cost the government £2.25 billion over Christmas and the transport sector £300 million a day. This is while the strike of the health workers will cause irreparable damage to the medical field of this country.
British nurses today, for the first time in the history of this country, have stopped working in protest against the crisis of living costs and livelihood problems. It is said that as a result of this strike, more than 15,000 surgeries and thousands of medical appointments will be canceled this week alone. Yesterday, the employees of the British railway network went on strike and this situation, along with the heavy snowfall and frost, disrupted the country’s transportation system.
Post office workers, university professors and teachers, border guards at the airport and hundreds of thousands of other public jobs are also planning to stop working in the coming days. The British government, which is struggling with economic recession and deep financial problems, is not able to increase the wages of public works to the extent they want.
Post office workers, university professors and teachers, border guards at the airport and hundreds of thousands of other public jobs are also planning to stop working in the coming days. The British government, which is struggling with economic recession and deep financial problems, is not able to increase the wages of public works to the extent they want.
According to the British Ministry of Finance, an eleven percent increase in the salaries of all public sector employees, which is equal to the inflation rate, requires a 4 percent increase in taxes to finance it. According to calculations, the demands of the protesters cost 28 billion pounds, equivalent to 1 thousand pounds for each household.
According to the estimate of the British Institute of Economic Affairs, the British public sector strike costs 300 million per day for the country’s economy, and its damage is as serious as during the Corona epidemic. The strikes that have been held in recent months have cost 750 million pounds to the country’s economy, and according to calculations, the strike of the railway network workers has also damaged the industry by 1.5 billion pounds.
“David Blunkett”, the former British Home Secretary in the last Labor Party government, said that the protest of public works is not a good thing not only for the ruling conservative party but also for the Labor Party. He warned that the strikes could quickly spread and repeat the story of the unrest in the winter of 1978-89.