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Added on the 13/03/2023 10:12:17 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Nurses hold a picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital in London, as part of the UK's biggest round of health service strikes, stepping up their demands for better pay to combat Britain's cost of living crisis. As well as nurses, thousands of ambulance workers represented by the GMB and Unite unions are also going on strike. IMAGES
In the UK it’s the Royal Mail postal workers who are the latest to go on strike as the country faces a wave of industrial action. The strikers want their pay to rise with inflation, which is now at eleven point one percent.
Seoul, Aug 26 (EFE/EPA).- Tens of thousands of doctors in South Korea went on a three-day strike nationwide from Aug 26 until 28 to protest the government's motion to scrap its plan to extend the number of students at medical schools. (Camera: JEON HEON-KYUN). SHOT LIST: DOCTORS HOLD A PROTEST STRIKE AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT'S MEDICAL POLICY, IN FRONT OF SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL IN SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA.
Junior Doctors and student nurses have walked out after negotiations failed with the government.
The UK Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt's budget is expected to address labour shortages and the cost-of-living crisis.