‘Strikes are all we have’: UK workers united in a winter of discontent

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Britain has been hit by a wave of industrial action this winter, as nurses, teachers and other public sector workers have gone on strike over pay and conditions.
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This has put them on a direct collision course with the government, which has introduced legislation to parliament that would make it harder for workers to strike. Adam Sich and Maeve Shearlaw spent a month talking to workers on the picket lines and protests to ask how the cost of living crisis is hitting them at home – and in their jobs

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