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Jun 2022
45m 38s

A Long Hot Summer of Strikes

THE TIMES
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After a Times Radio investigation showed that nearly a million people are considering or have confirmed strike action this summer, Matt Chorley explores what this means for the industries affected. He hears from Paul Nowak, Deputy General Secretary of the TUC, Gary Smith, the general secretary of the GMB union and Steven Fielding, Professor of political history at the University of Nottingham.


PLUS Danny Finkelstein and Oliver Kamm discuss the Government's Rwanda flights and accentism.


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