More than 20,000 public sector employees, many of them teachers and nurses, went on strike after municipal employers refused to take the initiative for renewed negotiations. The teachers and nurses can claim public support even after and because of, a difficult COVID-19 year. That prompted their union leaders to follow through with warnings that they would pull another 13,370 members off the job.
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