An estimated 150,000 workers took part in strike action on January 18.
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The record strike action comes amid an ongoing political crisis in Stormont.
Nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are among public sector workers striking about pay and conditions.
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Recent price rises are not due to higher wages but supply-side issues including the war in Ukraine, the COVID pandemic and Brexit.
Pay is a perennial issue: this strike by teachers was in 2019 over a government pay offer.
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Existing gender and ethnic pay gaps in the public service complicate using wage restraint to improve the lot of the lowest paid.
Good intentions, bad reactions: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Finance Minister Grant Robertson.
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If the proposed public sector wage freeze is aimed at improving the lot of lower paid workers, there are better alternatives the government should consider.
South Africa’s finance minister, Tito Mboweni, ahead of his budget speech.
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The South African government is hamstrung by the country’s fiscal and economic situation. And short of ideas about how to get out of it.