Everyone in the UK, it seems, is angry about their pay.
Rail strikes are set to escalate over the summer. Bus drivers, refuse collectors and baggage handlers have staged walkouts across the country; more than 100,000 postal workers at the Royal Mail Group have voted to follow suit. In the public sector, unions representing teachers and doctors, nurses and civil servants are preparing to ballot their members on industrial action after ministers announced pay deals that equate to real terms wage cuts.
The outrage has created some incongruous alliances: rail workers demonstrated in June outside the Old Bailey in solidarity with criminal barristers who were rallying in wigs and gowns to protest against miserly legal aid fees.
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