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Postal workers are the latest to add to the wave of strikes in the UK

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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.

Added on the 09/12/2022 21:34:02 - Copyright : Euronews EN

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