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So, a lot of disruption. but we have seen here in recent weeks and months a good number of workers from a variety of sectors going out on strike, all of them saying that they need their wages to reflect the higher cost of living, saying that they are simply struggling to pay their bills and their bills are going up. the two unions involved in today's industrial action are demanding respectively pay increases of 10.5% and 12% for their members. they are high demands but actually if you look back at the last few weeks and months, you can see that postal workers and metalworkers, who also went ou...

Scale is for a country like germany? i think the question is how long does it go on for? you know, we are looking now at a 2a—hour strike, it's on a monday, so that's obviously going to to have a huge impact. and as you mentioned you've got two of the largest unions in germany taking action on this and encouraging their workers to strike. so the longer this goes on the more of a problem we are going to have. but as you have seen earlier in the year in germany, other unions have managed to get those pay increases for their workers, so it depends who is going to cave first on that perspective....

The price rise is usually based around inflation — which injanuary was 10.5% — with an additional amount of 3.9% added on. the regulator 0fcom has launched an investigation into the increased costs, saying that due to the uncertainty that comes with the high rate of inflation at the moment, customers deserve clarity over how their bills will be affected. how do providers justify it? well, many of them say that it's necessary given rising costs facing their business. one of those costs is investment in the network, which needs to be done if we're all going to keep using more and more data. ...

Adopted a pet to keep them company while they were stuck at home. but unfortunately it's proving very costly to take care of a pet inflation on pet food has increased faster than inflation on human food. pet food up 15% in february from a year ago, pet supplies up 11% and vet services. is also up about 10.5% so pet owners they're having to make some difficult tradeoffs. they're buying fewer toys for their pets , switching from natural and organic foods to just kind of basic foods and, in some cases, even returning their pets to the shelter if they can't afford them. economic indicator. it real...

Glad that you're informing some of this alright, shifting gears here to inflation. i heard some stories this morning. ah about prices going up for people with pets. people do crazy things. i'm not judging. i'm not judging here crazy, not judging people who love their pets john things for their pets. but that kind of stuff is getting more expensive. it is john. so people treat their pets like they're they're like their children. early in the pandemic. there was a spike in pet adoptions about 23 million households adopted pets keep them company while they were stuck at home, but it's proving ver...