Gregor Gall: 'Hot strike summer' is getting hotter. Workers across the public and private sector, from refuse collectors to call centre operators, are currently taking industrial action. In the autumn, we might see nurses, teachers, civil servants and firefighters joining their ranks as resistance to the cost of living crisis grows. So, it might seem strange that the government has stopped recording all but the barest of data on strikes.
Records of strikes in Britain began in 1891, using three measurements: the number of strikes (called 'stoppages'), the number of workers involved, and the number of days not worked (called 'days lost'). This data was broken down by sector, region and nation, so it existed for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as well as for the UK as a whole. For over five decades, the government produced an annual article summarising the state of play for the previous calendar year.
On 17 May 2019, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published the annual strike data for 2018. Since then, there have been no such reports. This means we have no overview of strike action in Britain for the last three years. | |
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