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  1. On 22 January 1979, the “winter of discontent” peaked as a day of action was held by public sector #unions in the UK and 1.5 million workers struck against pay restraint in the high inflation. the largest stoppage of labour since the 1926 #GeneralStrike.
    Many workers stayed on #strike beyond that day and eventually won big pay increases, like refuse workers and gravediggers.

    This is a short history of those #massstrikes libcom.org/history/1978-1979-w

    stories.workingclasshistory.co

    #workingclasshistory