While I appreciate we all have a right to strike, as a Unison union member I was not offered the opportunity to vote for it due to the fact that at that particular time I was unemployed.

Now I have started to work and there’s a strike, and while not wanting to cross a picket line, I find I am losing out again.

Firefighters, nurses, ambulance personnel and others are struggling, thanks to the inefficiencies of previous Conservative and Labour governments.

Robert Brown
Northumberland Avenue
Southend