In 2012, just 248,800 working days were not worked from 131 strikes, with 63 strikes in the public sector compared with 68 in the private sector, compared with 1,389,700 days not worked in 2011 from 149 strikes. The numbers of days lost for 2012 represents just 18% of the level for 2011. (Ref. 130459
The reason for such a steep decline in the number of days lost is to be found, on the one hand, in the taking of a single one-day strike by thirty public sector unions on 30 November 2011 over reforms to public sector pensions, and on the other hand, by the inability of these unions to stage further such united and coordinated strikes over public sector pension reform in 2012.
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