AP News By JILL LAWLESS
The British government said Sunday it will dispatch 1,200 troops to fill in for striking ambulance drivers and border staff as multiple public sector unions walk off the job in the week before Christmas.
Ambulance crews are due to strike on Wednesday, joining nurses, railway staff, passport officers and postal workers, who are all staging a series of walkouts in the coming weeks.
The U.K.âs most intense strike wave for decades is a response to a cost-of-living crisis driven by soaring food and energy prices in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russiaâs invasion of Ukraine.
Some 417,000 working days were lost to strikes in October, the highest number in a decade.
UK sending 1,200 troops to fill in as ambulance crews strike | AP News
