Bernie Sanders supports British strikers

US Senator Bernie Sanders, a major figure on the left in his country, will come to support the British rail strikers on Wednesday August 31, giving international scope to a movement for the revaluation of wages which lasts and extends to the United Kingdom.

“

,” the UK union wrote. on its website.

Multiple walkouts

Bernie Sanders will be present at the “

” at the headquarters of the TUC trade union federation at 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, a day also marked by the strike of workers from the mail and logistics group Royal Mail, those from the telecommunications operator BT as well as journalists.

Walkouts have been increasing for months in the UK, affecting rail transport, aviation, postal services, criminal lawyers, employees of the telephone group BT, workers in the public health services (NHS), the media , among others.

Among several actions planned for September in various sectors, railway workers who are members of the TSSA union announced on Wednesday a new walkout day on September 26, during the Labor Party's annual conference in Liverpool.

The unions particularly criticize the leader of the opposition Labor Party Keir Starmer for his lack of support for the strikers.

"Summer of Discontent"

The cost of living crisis is increasingly acute in the United Kingdom, where inflation has passed the 10% threshold and could exceed 20% in early 2023 if gas prices remain high, according to the bank Goldman Sachs.

The scale of strike action has been unprecedented in the country since the 1980s and the era of Margaret Thatcher, leading the press to speak of a "

", paralleling the famous "

" from 1978 to 1979.

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The British government of Boris Johnson, about to leave, has been largely passive for several months despite a surge in energy prices - the ceiling of regulated tariffs will jump by 80% from October - which should plunge two thirds of British households into the fuel poverty, according to the University of York.

The next Downing Street host will be known on September 5, and the very Thatcherite Liz Truss is the favorite against Rishi Sunak, a supporter of budgetary orthodoxy and in favor of direct emergency aid in the face of the crisis.