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Thousands of teachers and other public sector workers joined a strike march in London on Wednesday
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The UK was hit by the biggest day of industrial action in more than a decade as half a million workers from multiple sectors went on strike on Wednesday.

School teachers, train drivers, university staff and civil servants staged walkouts across the nation over pay and working conditions. According to unions, 300,000 teachers, 100,000 civil servants, 70,000 university staff, 12,000 train drivers and 2,000 bus workers downed tools.

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 Sorcha Bradley is a writer at The Week and a regular on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast. She worked at The Week magazine for a year and a half before taking up her current role with the digital team, where she mostly covers UK current affairs and politics. Before joining The Week, Sorcha worked at slow-news start-up Tortoise Media. She has also written for Sky News, The Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard and Grazia magazine, among other publications. She has a master’s in newspaper journalism from City, University of London, where she specialised in political journalism.