Summer of discontent: will US strikes spell trouble for ‘union guy’ Biden?

Widespread industrial action could cloud president's Bidenomics' pitch to voters but some see a chance to shine as a champion of working people

It became known as the winter of discontent. After the Labour government tried to freeze wages to stem inflation, Britain was convulsed by labour strikes and disruptions in public services. Rubbish piled in the streets, bodies went unburied - and a fierce political backlash swept Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives into power.

Forty-five years later a summer of strikes is roiling industries from coast to coast in America.