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Evan Davis hosts the business conversation show with insights from the people at the top.

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The Bottom Line: How Strikes Come to an End

How Strikes Come to an End

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What can past strikes tell us about how to resolve the current wave of industrial strife?

Could all parties in the current series of strike actions learn from the past to bring about a swifter resolution? Evan Davis and three guests with experience of strikes discuss.

Current strike action across the UK led to more than a million lost working days in 2022, the worst industrial strife the nation has experienced since the 'Winter of Discontent' in the 1970s.  But with the benefit of hindsight, what can we learn from those who have dealt with labour relations in the past, and can their insights help to establish a better way of working out employee grievances?  

Evan Davis and guests discuss.

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Alan Johnson, former MP, Secretary of State and former Head of the Union of Communication Workers.
Professor Sian Moore, Professor of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Employment and Work (CREW),  University of Greenwich
Susanna Newing, Chief People Officer, Coventry Council 

Presenter: Evan Davis
Producer: Julie Ball and Marianna Brain
Editor:  China Collins
Sound:  Gareth Jones and Neil Churchill
Production Co-ordinators:  Siobhan Reed and Sophie Hill

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