There was some mostly desultory coverage in the UK, but the only serious coverage of the largest labor action in a generation in Great Britain.
There were something like ½ million people taking part in the action, and in the us, we had one or 2 'graphs in most US papers.
It's almost like they are toadies for capital working at media outlets owned by heartless conglomerates ……… Oh, Yeah ……… Right.
Up to half a million British teachers, civil servants, train drivers and university lecturers have walked off their jobs to demand better pay and working conditions in the largest coordinated strike action in a generation as wages fail to keep pace with soaring inflation.
About 300,000 people on strike on Wednesday are teachers, according to the Trades Union Congress.………
According to a YouGov poll late last year, 59 percent of respondents were in favour of the education sector striking.
The National Education Union said about 23,000 schools will be affected on Wednesday with an estimated 85 percent fully or partially closed.
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Other workers also on strike range from museum employees and London bus drivers to coastguards and border officials manning passport control booths at airports.
More action, including by nurses and ambulance workers, is planned for the coming days and weeks.
Union bosses say that despite some pay rises – such as a 5 percent offer the government proposed to teachers – wages in the public sector have failed to keep up with skyrocketing prices, effectively meaning workers have been taking a pay cut.
Al Jazeera's normal beat is the Middle East, but they had the best coverage.
Media fail.
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