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Britain’s Christmas strike wave

Who’s out?

ailway workers, postal staff and nurses, with ambulance drivers and Border Force civil servants due to join in next week. Other strikers include National Highways staff, Heathrow baggage handlers, bus staff and driving examiners. The Royal College of Nursing is striking for the first time ever in the hope of a 17% pay rise after years of a real-term freeze. Ambulance workers are due to walk out on 21 December in the first nationwide strike by paramedics across England and Wales in more than three decades. Striking workers at the country’s biggest container port, Felixstowe, won an 8.5%

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