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Hello, I'm Karni Shab on the BBC World Service and this is BBC OS Conversations on Striking Workers.

As people around the world feel a squeeze on their finances, many are deciding to walk out to protest for better pay and conditions.

We're going to bring some workers together, including those in healthcare in the UK and Italy, teachers in the United States and Ghana and railroad workers in the US.

My work has tripled and my pay went from $400 a day to $264 a day and we just keep getting worse and our new hires, they're not staying.

The global economy is shrinking but as many of us know, our costs are rising.

As a result, millions feel forced to make their voices hurt. Take the UK for instance. It is seeing one of the highest levels of walkouts in recent memory.

As the cost of living in creases at its fastest rate in almost 40 years.

The dissatisfaction is also found in the country's National Health Service, where nurses in several parts of England, Wales and Northern Ireland went on strike in the largest action of its kind in the 74 year history of the NHS.

The UK Government says, nurses' demands are unaffordable.

In our conversations, we didn't want to get too deep into the politics of any dispute.

You can find that elsewhere on the BBC. But we wanted to hear about the lives of frontline workers.

Café Laat-Adi Kunli is a community-matron nurse working for the NHS in London. She is also a union representative for Britain's Royal College of Nursing.

We brought her together with Sami Sejhi, he's a doctor in Milan. My colleague James Reynolds asked them why they decided to walk out.

I love my job. I love my role. I've grown in the profession up until now. But it seems everything is going into crisis. And we know why.

Nurses have not been given pay awards that may be cost of living, as you know. The cost of living is very high now. And nurses start at the top of their pay bans. Don't get paid a rate that reflects their knowledge and skills.

There are tens and tens and thousands of our field jobs. And too many people are deciding that they cannot afford to do it anymore.

It is patience. Who would pay the price? I worked around 260 hours in the month of November 2022 with a contract of 160 hours.

And those 100 hours are not paid. The amount of money I'm receiving as a doctor from the public point of view is the same as it was 22 years ago.

Which of course is not enough in order to live. And a lot of doctors decided, me included, that we will participate, but we will work as well in order to not affect our patients in this case.

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