BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 04:20:00
But if you zoom further back, you can see that three million is nothing compared to the minor strikes or the winter of discontent, or in fact, to the 200 million days of sick leave that people took last year. now, how do you put a cash value on this? well, one thing that people tried to do is they multiply that day's loss figure by some estimate of the value of the work that people do on average every day. it's pretty rough and ready. there's three big reasons for that. first off, it's hard to come up with the value. what's the value of a french class or what's the difference in value between ...