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.
“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.”
Yep. Basically the unions see it as breaking their unwritten contract which was that their workers in which the workers would be paid, at least, enough to live on. But now, with energy prices through the roof (as in 2 to 5 times higher than 2 years ago) due to them joining in on ‘punishing’ Russia (still trying to figure out how that works), the unions, understandably, want some compensation.