About 500,000 UK workers set to hold mass strike on February 1: Report
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The UK is still witnessing strikes across the kingdom by thousands of teachers, train drivers, civil servants, university teachers, bus drivers and security guards.
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Royal Mail workers hold placards and banners as they gather in Parliament Square, to hold a protest over pay and jobs. (AP)
The United Kingdom is expecting close to half a million workers to stage a mass strike on February 1, demanding higher wages amid a record surge in the cost of living, which is considered one of the country's largest rallies in more than 10 years, Sky News reported on Monday.
The protest is expected to include teachers, train drivers, civil servants, university teachers, bus drivers and security guards, the report said.
Earlier this month, the ASLEF train drivers' union announced strikes with over 40,000 members of the UK's Rail, Maritime and Transport union on February 1 and 3. The protests will also include around 1,900 bus drivers in London.
The report added that around 300,000 teachers from the National Education Union will join pickets on Wednesday. This is considered the largest teacher strike in history, expected to affect 24,000 schools, the union said.
Moreover, at least 100,000 UK civil servants from the Public and Commercial Services Union will take protest action on Wednesday.
A series of strikes by civil servants have occupied the streets of Britain over the past months as people's dissatisfaction keeps growing, with the worsening economic situation caused by rising energy prices and soaring inflation in the country.
Moreover, employees of railroad companies, post offices, airports and lawyers, among others, have been taking part in the strikes.
Four days ago, the United Kingdom's Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) reported that more than 4,000 of its members went on strike, thereby setting a precedent, in order to demand higher wages.
"Up to 4,200 CSP members from 30 trusts went on strike today, as part of the ongoing dispute over the pay award given to NHS staff on the Agenda for Change pay scale," the CSP said in a statement.
The CSP's first strike kicked off at midnight and will last for up to 24 hours, the British Sky News broadcaster reported, adding that the next strike in Wales would take place on February 7 and in England on February 9.
Earlier this month, nurses started two days of strikes over pay on January 18, as officials warned of disruption for thousands of patients in the UK's state-run health service.
It follows an unprecedented strike by nurses last month, which was part of a wave of industrial action by public-sector workers affected by the cost-of-living crisis.
The largest nursing union accused the government of neglecting to seriously negotiate an improved wage deal for the current fiscal year.
