UK - Strikes over pensions and working time are on the increase despite an overall drop in industrial action. Latest figures from the Office of National Statistics show the number of days lost because of action over "extra wage and fringe benefits" - generally pensions - rose to a 15-year high of almost 140,000 last year.
By comparison, employers lost only 5400 working days through strikes over redundancies – the lowest since 1985 – while the number of days lost through staffing and work allocation disputes fell fro...
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