Earlier this week, criminal baristas in England and Wales voted to go on an all-out, indefinite,

uninterrupted strike.

This was a decisive result.

80% of criminal baristas voted in favour of escalating the industrial action.

The wigs and the placards were among the more surprising of picket lines.

The latest strikes to strangle backlog Britain is baristas who will walk out of course indefinitely

next month in a dispute over pay.

If the strike goes ahead today, Friday the 30th of August will be their last working day

for the foreseeable future.

So why are baristas choosing to strike?

This picture of the fat cat baristas is it's made for strating because you encounter

that a lot of the stereotypes and it's just really not the reality, you know, you kind

of want to shape people and say no, this isn't how it is, you know, you should see what

I get paid.

You're listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times.

I'm Manvina Rana.

Today, justice on hold, the baristas strike.

I'm Jonathan Ames, I'm the legal editor at the Times newspaper.

Jonathan, what's it like on a strike day?

What's it like being around crown courts sort of places you normally spend your life?

I think the thing that will strike people as it were when they go in on strike days is

that there aren't any baristas there.

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