London, Mar 15 (EFE)
The website of Transport for London (TfL), in charge of the British capital’s underground, shows that there are no operational services on any of the lines.
The drivers, belonging to the Aslef sector union and the Railway, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, have gone on strike in protest because the savings measures in the network may cause a reduction in pensions and working conditions.
Apart from the protest of the subway drivers, recently graduated and resident doctors end their 72-hour strike on Wednesday to demand job improvements, while in England teachers go on strike, also for the same reasons.
Also, some 150,000 civil servants who work in more than one hundred government departments are going on strike today to demand a salary increase.
In recent months, the United Kingdom has experienced a wave of strikes from different sectors -such as the nursing union, doctors who do residency, ambulance personnel, university professors or postal workers- to demand salary improvements due to the increase of the cost of living, since year-on-year inflation exceeds 10%.