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THE number of working days lost to strikes soared during Britain’s “summer of discontent,” official figures published today reveal.
June saw 70,500 working days missed because of industrial action, while 87,600 were lost in July, much higher than 2019’s monthly average of just 19,500 days, the Office for National Statistics said.
The transport and storage industries were the most affected following the national rail strikes by the RMT union in late June.
While walkouts were seen nationwide, Yorkshire and the Humber and London saw the most working days lost that month, with 25,800 and 16,700 respectively.
In July, north-west England recorded the most at 24,700, followed by the capital on 14,200.
A wave of strikes has swept the country this year, involving hundreds of thousands of workers across the railway, postal services, telecommunications, the justice system, local authorities and elsewhere.
Plummeting take-home pay and soaring inflation have added to the pressures on working families following more than a decade of Tory austerity pay.
