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Trade union leaders have backed co-ordinated action over pay as the UK’s cost of living crisis escalates.
Frances O’Grady, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), said: “It always makes sense for working people to work together”.
The UK’s largest two unions are seeking to co-ordinate industrial action as they step up pay demands this winter.