First step

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Sixteen unions representing nurses, teachers, transport workers, civil servants and other sectors started a joint action on Thursday that was expected to cause widespread disruption across the region.

A last-ditch attempt to revive the moribund Stormont executive failed on Wednesday, leaving a question mark over whether devolution will ever return to Northern Ireland.

Padraig Mulholland, the deputy general secretary of Nipsa, which represents civil servants and public sector workers, said members had reached “breaking point” and that this was only the start of wider action.

The mass strike follows a two-year political crisis that broke down power-sharing and mothballed the Stormont executive and assembly, leaving Northern Ireland run by civil servants, overseen by the secretary of state, Chris Heaton-Harris.

Rishi Sunak hoped the Windsor framework’s tweaks to trading arrangements last year would pave the way for a DUP restoration of power-sharing, giving Downing Street a big political victory.

This is a crucial moment for a renewed trade union movement to demonstrate the power that lies in the hands of all working people and that unity and solidarity are how we win a better world and defend our collective interests.”

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