How much worse will strikes get?
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Lewis heads to the scene of a raucous picket line to speak to CWU union members on strike. But how much worse will strikes get this winter?
Lewis casts an eye over all sectors taking industrial action over pay, workers rights and terms and conditions.
And then, we talk to England vs. France. But not the football. We're joined by two French people who have lived in the UK for decades; and they discuss the complex relationship between England and France; culturally, historically and in the present day, post-Brexit. Philippe Auclair, singer-songwriter and football journalist, and star of TV show First Dates, Fred Sirieix.
Social Media: Georgia Foxwell
Video: Will Gibson-Smith
Production: Gabriel Radus
Deputy Editor: Tom Hughes
Executive Producer: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.5 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.2 | This is the strike to end all of the strikes now. |
| 0:15.2 | We know that. |
| 0:15.8 | I think all of our industries and our public services like that. |
| 0:18.8 | It's an ideological warfare against working classes. |
| 0:22.1 | That's how you see. It's not just a narrow thing. It's a wider politicalist. |
| 0:25.5 | Oh, definitely. |
| 0:26.7 | That's the really important point. That's the really important thing, perhaps to understand from |
| 0:30.3 | today's whole podcast, which is that this isn't just about paying conditions. |
| 0:35.7 | Not just for the CWU, the Communications Workers Union, who are |
| 0:39.0 | having today's rally in Parliament Square, I'm standing now. Parliament Square, which is brisk and |
| 0:45.6 | cold, but it is anything but cold in terms of the atmosphere is hot, it is electric. There are |
| 0:51.2 | these thousands of thousands of people, thousands and thousands of pink high-vis, this pink powder floating over the air in front of Parliament, filtered by the light. |
| 1:01.0 | And although, as I say, they're very animated by their pay and conditions, there is a sense here that this is part of a wider struggle, a wider battle for the political soul of |
| 1:15.1 | the country which has been building and building and building, a fight which has been building |
| 1:20.8 | between governments and the public sector in particular for the last 10 years or more. |
| 1:25.6 | It's Lewis here. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:31.6 | The news agents. |
| 1:33.6 | Now don't worry, it's not all going to be doom and gloom on today's podcast later. |
| 1:37.2 | We are going to be thinking a bit about, yes, the big game on Saturday. |
| 1:41.2 | And don't worry, it's me. |
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