roberto suarez santos, secretary—general of the international organisation of employers, thank you for. to find out why, i�*ve been speaking to the head of the international trade union confederation which claims to represent more than 200 million workers in 163 countries around the world. thank you forjoining us on the programme. now, last year, the us government says that country had the highest number of what it describes as major work stoppages for 23 years. and, of course, in lots of corners of the world, it really feels like we�*ve seen a lot of strikes over the past year. why is that, do you think? well, there is a growing dissatisfaction among workers in the world. they are faced with high levels of inflation, certainly the last years, and the wage increases have been very moderate or reduced to a minimum. that means that the real wages and the real wage level, um, is going down and the purchasing power is eroding. and that makes people angry because at the same time, they see that those that have a lot of money and that own the companies are not having the same reality as they