Nearly 4m fewer UK working days in past year due to strike action, study says

Resolution Foundation report says much of industrial action fuelled' by public sector workers' anger over falls in real-terms pay

About 3.9m working days have been lost to industrial action in the past year, more than at any point since the 1980s, according to a new analysis.

The Resolution Foundation, which focuses its research on low- to middle-income households, said many of the strikes were fuelled" by anger among public sector workers over real-terms pay declines, which amounted to an average cut of more than 9% since 2021, adjusted for inflation.