Industrial Action Resulted in 5 Million Lost Working Days: ONS
Published on February 13, 2024
Britain has been affected by more than five million days lost due industrial action from June 20022 to Dec. 2023, new data has revealed. The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has released the latest figures on labour disputes across the UK. The current strike period led to 5.05 million missed days and is the highest figure for a 19-month period in decades. The last time when UK workers missed more days in labour disputes was in the period from July 1989 to January 1991. The ONS graph peaked in December 2022, when 830,000 days were estimated to have been missed. That month saw thousands of railway, Royal Mail, ambulance, airport and border control and postal workers take part in industrial action....