I read the article and am not clear on what the unions want other than “more money”. Is there a specific policy or policies about which the government is going to have to negotiate?
From reading the piece, they seem to be carefully dancing around the cause of this - in large part, the decision to block Russian oil and gas and the effect it is having.
The rail workers struck for a couple of days, now the nurses, ambulance and bus drivers are going out.
Don’t worry chaps, we’ll have the Russkies on the run very shortly. Just a few more bits of kit, a little help from the exchequer to grease the skids, and nothing but blue skies.