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have left spots of the u. s. city of dallas underwater. several people had to be rescued from their vehicles, and hundreds of fives have been cancelled this month is the 2nd wet his on record for the area. and those are the headlines on al jazeera inside story is coming up next, stay with us. mm hm. it's being called britain's summer of strikes. tens of thousands of workers across different sectors have moved off the job. they want better pay and conditions to combat record high inflation will businesses and government leaders meet their demands. this is inside story.

ah hello and welcome to the program. i'm laura kyle. workers in the u. k. have launch some of their most disruptive industrial action in years with living costs hitting a 40 year high. they want more pay and better conditions. tens of thousands of transport staff postal employees and even lawyers have walked off the job. and for the 1st time and 30 years dock workers also went on strike at britons launches container. port trade unions accused business leaders of putting prophets ahead of workers that the government says union bosses are holding the country to ransom. we're bringing our guests in just a moment. first, harry force it has more from felix to port in the east of england. the world's largest container ship at britain's largest container port the ever

a lot arrived on thursday and normally would be long gone by now. but strike action by felix. those 900100 duck workers, has stopped operations. the unite union says a recently increased offer of a 7 percent pay rise doesn't keep pace with spiraling inflation. it's seeking a double digit raise that it says would share surging corporate profits. $71000000.00 at last count more equitably with the workers. now unfortunately, we've yet to be given an offer, which we think we can take back in, which reflects our members as ration and talking to members today in which we're in a position that there you can see we've, we've had that message sent back to it's loud and clear felix to port says it was reminded in recent days by the bank of england of the inflation re effects of big pay rises. the port company accuses the union of using the workers international struggle. on average workers, this is an extra 3 and

a half 1000 pounds in cash to them each year. the action that they're taking now that united is making them taking not having to put this offer to all workers, but the action that united is making them take is actually going to take the best part of a 1000 pounds out of their pocket. the question is, how far the effects of this shut down will ripple through the u. k. economy. the port says the effects will be manageable, pointing to the lessons learned during the supply chain. disruption of the pandemic . suddenly, the ever a lot isn't going anywhere anytime soon. and some industry analysis suggest other container ship as are already offloading the cargo in europe. instead of the u. k. the union accepts that will be major disruption and says that it could carry out further strikes as it seeks. what it says is a fair deal up the road in ipswich, adams scott's printing and embroidery business relies on imported materials, textiles, inc, and vinyl. he supports the right to strike, but is worried about further shocks to a supply chain that's already stretched and only getting costlier. historically way

we'd have maybe to price wise as of 2 to 3 percent, something like that. we're now looking at, you know, 8 to 10 percent price rises monthly from our suppliers, so it's not like a challenging environment for us over the last. so yeah. this sunday's cargo it felix though, was restricted to day trippers. all sides are settling in for a long wait for this dispute to be resolved and is just one among many a long summer of industrial action, and economic uncertainty isn't yet over. hurry for, sit al jazeera felix, all the nation wide strikes have brought parts of britain's rail network to a standstill and cause days of disruptions. only one in 5 trains were running on thursday and saturday. london's underground transport has been hit by for 24 hour war counts. this year has had a knock on effect on other services where there weren't any strikes, including the eurostar, criminal lawyers and rubbish collectors also stopped working. it's not just the public sector, private company is also being affected. sarvard telecoms giant bt stopped work for

4 days at the end of july for the 1st time, and 35 years. amazon warehouse staff have also staged walk outs. and some proposed strikes have been halted after pay deals were agreed. these include some by british airways, ground staff, and plain refueling. that london heathrow airport. but other work as a holding firm, hostile staff plan action later this month. and teachers and health workers have hinted at possible walk out if they don't get pay deals, they consider acceptable. ah, let's bring in our guests at this point and all of all of them are joining us from lunch. and we have stephen carson, he's the general secretary of the international transport workers federation. push been thing is an economist at the center for economic and business research. and charles cunningham is the founder of the public relations agency. trafalgar strategy and former head of press at the u. k. prime minister's office from 2015 to

16, a very warm welcome to all of you stephen. let's start by just discussing why all these strikes are happening right now. hey, so i think we've got an extraordinary situation. i think you mentioned in the presentation transport workers, wherever they fit, rail workers, truck drivers who did their part for the kind of the period and now with enormous levels of inflation not seen for 40 years. and frankly, people are extremely worried about meeting their. ready and their commitments at a time when is clearly a void of leadership in the politics in the u. k. and now ready solution. so all of the cases you mention are actually strikes voted on by the workers themselves. so i think the message to a global audience is, workers of had enough, i did their power for it, and now they recognized extreme increase in cost off the scale. and they're asking

for a just and fair, equitable solution. question, do you, do you agree with that that workers, that people, the society at large is facing stream rising cost and that this is an unworkable situation if it continues as it is for sure. like i mentioned before, inflation is almost a definite 40 year high and inspiring out of control. i think the most recent data on earnings as well shows real p decreasing by 3 percent compared to quote the last quarter to and get between inflation and earnings have never been higher since record started 2 decades ago. so definitely a lot of it is firing up by running out of control and a lot must be done to help households actually manage the bills and actually survive the cost of that because that's where is the government. and all of this, there is a gap that people work as a feeling that they use strikes as last resort and try to negotiate. they feel that

guessing anywhere, why not just living streets unprecedented times and just have gotten off on presidents in package of intervention during the quarter paid up money and trying to get the economy back on its feet. now i have been hit by these sort of 40 year, however, fewer by the war, ukraine, which is a rock and a hard place. we're going to have to pay for this at some point and everybody across the board. if they do, you are giving to the tomorrow, then you're going to have down the guy across the board, you know, and it's not just published because people facing these challenges as well. you know, the reason it's going to phrase or matching conscious keep failing or what put them out. they're going to put out a $400.00 pounds package for households hit by the rising cost of energy. there

are number of one of the payments with different prices. so it's very, i mean, politics are they saw, i think the most common sentiment is probably with the government. a lot of people guarantee it's very difficult, difficult time. so there is pain coming out. of course, if we have this for my son preston, situation where he talks about criminal teachers, other public sectors walking out there in the political are huge. principal dangerous calls the government because at some point our suspect the public patience will run out. or you raise a number of different points that i want to pick up on one of them, stephen, just saying public sentiment is with the government at the moment. do you agree with that? would you believe that you've got the support of the general public? well, i think you can probably move in different circles if on frank reality is most people

are very, very concerned about meeting their bills. so the public sentiment certainly from our experience of our affiliates, you know, i, r, m t as left. so those are rails and the felix and strike is that there's a lot of solidarity. and you know, felix though has been one of the successful polls. the 1st strike in 30 years probably says the whole, there's been very responsible approach to industrial action. and the reality is, we, you know, the ideological comment to also be picking you up is given to this as a reality is people see so much wealth accumulated in the talk elements of our society. and we've heard all of these companies taking share dividends. these are extreme sets of circumstances, the cost of living is 40 year high. we need to look at this in a different way, workers collaborating throughout the pandemic to keep those that are in the global

supply chain to keep the world moving. we think and we believe that the transfer workers in today's world should be shown the same level of respect in a moment of crisis. we should be looking at how do we come up with economic fiscal approach to help distribute the well, if you can or take so much money out people's pockets per month and not expect to. ready action, so for us all the feedback, we have all the chat rooms that we're party to have a look on twitter. there is a very strong sense of injustice for people who feel that the money is being taken in their pocket and they don't have any control on the situation. but then what do you think of that? do you agree that there is enough money to go around? there is enough money to combat this situation in the u. k right now, but it just concentrated in the wrong places. i think definitely it's gonna text a lot when the government finance treasury, as mentioned before, a lot of spending the sun during the career to help

a lot of workers and those key workers passed and off workers we distressed in calling to get to those guys properly as far, finally, and what now we have based on present the inflationary environment where more spending needs to be done. but it definitely is going to tax the treasury a lot and it is, or if there's going to be handouts or tax cuts either way, it has to be financed by more boring, which already put street. so is there a lot of money going on? frankly, not really, but a lot of cost effective and a lot of smart ways have to be thought up by the next come in terms of how this is going to be public promulgated and implemented. i tell some, some would say that the conservatives are not offering a solution on the number of reasons why people say the concept is not offering solutions, not least of that. there's no clear leadership at them, but we'll get on to that in just a moment. but another reason perhaps, is that vast public spending is simply not in the tory dna. and therefore, as the conservatives find it very difficult to propose more money to be offered to

people. well, i mean, you're right, they load trucks and a lot less intervention company. you've been to venture government in recent history ration to they've intervened in a certain process by georgia. fundamentally, what we do is trust premise shit by oregon wensel tax against the big oil companies . i think in the, in the long term it just damages the investment environment puts coming here. what we need is a low tax environment where to attract businesses. but also, we have the smallest about energy sources about about to be energy companies have been lower costs, energy as well. but i mean, come back to the 4 things that are probably spending. this is the problem. there isn't unprecedented types of cash in the reserves and government,

a huge change levels which have high rates of interest. and we just storing up more part of the long term. there is no regions, and this is something which is not just unique to something which is comes across here. i mean, i think one thing which has become apartments has been too much reliance on russia for energy. and now we're paying the price for joe says that the has been intervention on the energy prices, and yet they are still rising. they are in this tool set to rise this winter. they've gone up from $1200.00, on average last year to $3400.00 pounds. that's a huge rise for most people. why are they not? why it can it not happen that the energy companies themselves a forced to charge less, that proper caps a put on prices?

you can do that. there's no just no see how in terms of what can be done, what can be done the for problem with that is putting a cap of prices to protect households. yes, it would definitely in, in terms of alleviating the cost of households and especially low income households will definitely protect them from paying the extra just need an extra incentives needed. right. it's supposed to happen october and in january as well, where we can see the price increasing to a $5000.00 pounds. i think the most recent one to my 6000 i saw today, but putting the price get also this thought putting a cap on the price can itself actually distort pricing those by because by doing so, in the sense call households and consumers won't be kind of very about how much the energy bills are increasing and at the same regular use that they're doing it now doing as of now and without seeing kind of change and the price is due to the cap. it distorts a lot of signals and adds a lot of actuation a lot as

a lot of not going to affect the economy. so that has a very dangerous effect going forward as well. so putting the cap is not exactly feasible. ok, and stevens, i would say that the strikes have not gone affects the economy as well. the critics would say that they cause a wage price spiral, of course, were rising wages would feed into this cycle of inflation. i think as we've seen in the past, industrial relations before coated on many occasions as a founder solution that's been satisfactory by for. ready private companies and for the government, the situation we have at the moment is a feeling that people are actually losing that purchasing power at the same time of mass. now i think human nature is such that i think, particularly in the u. k. a sense of what's fair and there's a feeling at the moment that there are still large dividends coming out of work to spite and assets,

including some of the energy companies. i'm making enormous amounts of money for people that are not able to put it back. and therefore, the majority of the study is the number of studies, citibank perceives that we could be as high as i think it's 14 percent at the end of 12.2 percent by the end of the year by 18 point c. by january 2023, with these numbers coming out and workers feel they have no choice but to stop. and as we've said, you've got very strong labels that require a very big process of getting majority to, to win the right to strike. what we're seeing is meant support for the strikes from the workers. and i would argue from, from the society is a large because i think, you know, and if we look at the situation p and i, ferries, where so many workers are stacked and call such outright. there's a feeling that big business can do what it likes. and the government is kind of

colluding with the process. so for working men and women the opportunity to withdraw their labor is frankly the last stand. and we would actively through this process not. ready discouraged business from coming from the k, but also be in a position to encourage people back to the table. everybody wants security in their jobs for to pay the bills and then be in a position to go to work and give a, give a, give a performance. i think if we just touch on the rail strike, that feels very heavily, politically motivated. and this har and fire strategy that's been advocated by the transport minister is aggravating the situation if we were dealing with just cost issues and a recognition that we've got an unprecedented post cove in situation a 40 year following costs. let's get back to negotiating. let's find a solution of course and you know, when the bank of england comes out and. ready says well, because shouldn't ask for piracy i think that doesn't reflect reality men or women

in the u. k. and not just the is joel said the rising cost is extremely high, but the u. k. as one of the free is markets, and we have no caps or caps be withdrawn or running out. we're seeing a moment where people are very scared. and you know, let's just look at the issue of barrister's criminal barrister's. they are not the worst paid workers in the world, even they're coming in storage. so i think we need to how we deal with this. we need to find a constructive way to negotiate. we would encourage employers, government to sit down, recognize that this is an unprecedented moment, that solutions and confidence in workers and the businesses they work for is vital . ok and not get. let roy, let's just let just pick up that stephen thing. people are scared. this is an unprecedented moment. does when the government and all this was the leadership was embarrassed. johnson, the prime minister on his 2nd holiday of the summer,

he seems to have signed off and just passed on all of this to whoever takes over. that's not happening until september the 5th. i think a lot of damage potentially done between now and then. not seeing any policies announced by the to prospective candidates. do you feel that there is a, would you agree? there is a lack of leadership. i think your why there is a dangerous sorry, sam, problem facing johnston because he's going to be a problem. it's not more responsible to be taking decisions rich. the next a sense of trying to defer things off. but sure. we've got a situation where you could start moving at breakneck speed. it is a danger work. now, let's work on the assumption that is supposed to, right. we're going to have this trust premise, or some of that she's going to need to get to grips to very quickly because if they start spreading out a lot more, i mean we use the sort of standard underground rouse flights often as it starts.

if it does not spread out, then you may see potent patience. the public patience is going to be in a row. because whatever the rights and wrongs in the situation, people will, at that point, i think it start printing that they're going to need to find a call with some current solution or some kind of way to break things. they start just the stripes, flying to the route that people are really damaged because structure and stuff. they have the potential to be very different and suddenly pressed back to during my my alarm. so i think relation to the people. so say, well, you're just going to celebrate the maintenance was more to mention driver training on the people from her during convent. so they so say i can take one off strikes

if you don't spread becomes an incredibly problematic with all the other backdrops . you take a few markets heading into recession, cost and in crisis could be the project stall for the new prime minister, a big labor part. absolutely push been what sort of solution do you think and, and britain that needs definitely a lot more targeted solutions in terms of what can be done and will be know to at least alleviate the cost of the price is what, what was said for about the perfect stomach, stephanie, of perfect descriptions. what happening do you care right now in terms of external factors concerning supply side shops, including the war and ukraine. you've got rising energy prices previously and initially due to kinda suppress supply and now do again to energy convert inflation and whole study could cost you requested to. so,

and that was all of this coming down to unless you can see 2 to 2 figures we saw online to some compression. and it's very likely that the u. k is going to research and i think probably should be helping households and will income as especially low income households, them to kind of deal with this whole idea, this whole phenomenon downtown, a long story prices. and definitely, i know there's a lot of things coming into play right now in front of all the time to focus on helping help. well, at the same time, once more managing the 1st one was trying to do as part of the primary locations. i love to handle to be quiet, and a lot of effective and time, you know, just have to be, are required as well. but clearly that's not the case right now, given the whole idea of a vacuum and we still have yet to see who has yet to come into the hot c o 2 weeks . but yeah, absolutely. i mean that, that will be a big point as well. is steven just lastly,

what happens if the strikes don't bring about the pay rises that work? is that demanding? well, i think there's a feeling certainly across all sectors in the u. k. light and that cooperation and collaboration about what the, the message is and what the challenge is also i think we're going to see more challenges when it comes to workers voting for strike action until we start to see some constructive settlements. these issues about and of course the rail strike gets the, the biggest profile, but there's a lot in that package. it's not just money, it's about changing the way the ran industry works. i think we need to get people back into into moving and transport is critic. i think the situation which we've seen is we're in the private sector. lots of lots of really big returns in the container markets in the supply chain. let's not forget supply chains driven, well,

it's more. and if you don't, if people money to spend, and they're worried about one their jobs and meeting their bills, how are we going to join the economies? we perceive that they will be a recession and will again, will need to drive out of that. so i think unions, workers, i certainly feel and let's be clear, this rail strike is far from over. there is a solidarity across different categories of workers. i'm present and we're going to have to leave them a going to have to leave and many thanks for joining us to all of our guests today. steven cause and push been thing and giles cutting them and thank you to for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al jazeera dot com, and have our discussion digital facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash ha inside story. and you can also join the conversation on twitter at a j in fi story. from me laura kyle and the whole team here is bye for now.

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