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This midweek strikes are affecting more the people that earn less and need to be at work

I’m all about fighting for what people deserve. However, I feel like this midweek strikes are only affecting the people that can only take public transports to work and can’t work from home, which normally are the people that earn less. One day without being able to work for a consultant or directors/ people in a good salary might be nothing, but for people that are paid per hour one day without being able to go to work it’s alot.

I lost a day of work today because I couldn’t do 4 hours travelling or afford an Uber to a different part of London on a strike day.

I worked a few months in an office related to the railways in the UK and on strike days, all the directors and the people earning good money didn’t have to go in, but the girl in the reception had to be in the office (probably the person earning less in the office) and she had to travel over 3 hours that day to make it to work. Do you think they called a meeting to discuss the issues of the strikes…they didn’t.

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