Image copyright PA Image caption Southern rail commuters are facing yet more disruption in the run-up to Christmas With commuters on Southern rail services braced for yet another day of strikes, and Crown Post Office workers pushing ahead with walkouts, are we facing a Christmas of Discontent?
About 2,000 cabin crew at British Airways have also called walkouts, while Argos delivery drivers this week suspended a strike at the eleventh hour.
The unrest is all the more unusual because for the last 30 years strikes have been falling to record low levels in the UK.
Train drivers" strike halts services”We"ve not seen much strike action really since the mid-1980s,” says Dr Alf Crossman, an industrial relations specialist at the University of Sussex.
“Back then it was the great British disease. It was like the weather – something you put up with.”
The number and size of walkouts has dropped sharply since the days of the Miners" Strike in 1984-85 and the Winter of Discontent in ..
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