Junior doctors start four-day strike in England with more than quarter of a million appointments and operations set to be cancelled Follow live updates:
The UK’s seen its fair share of strike action in the last few months, with teachers, train drivers and civil servants staging walkouts at one time or another.
NHS strikes in particular have been significant, not least because of their scale - back in November, we saw the biggest action by nurses in the health service’s history and now we’re in the midst of a 96-hour demonstration by junior doctors. The government claims their pay demands are unreasonable, but unions argue that their members only want what they’ve been denied for 15 years: pay rises in line with the rate of inflation. NHS staff have been staging walkouts since the 1970s - let's take a look at some of them.: Between January and April, consultants protested against proposed new contracts which they said would force them to abandon private practice.
: The following year, midwives in Northern Ireland staged a further four-hour strike, saying that 1% pay rise still hadn't been given to all staff - only some.A junior doctor pins NHS hourly rates up outside Middlesex Hospital during the 1975 strike Image caption: A junior doctor pins NHS hourly rates up outside Middlesex Hospital during the 1975 strike
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