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London, England, United Kingdom (AHN) – A survey by human resources firm Croner Consultancy said 20 percent of British employers are wary a new wave of strikes would hit the country in the next six months. The fear is compounded by an admission by over 50 percent of 301 HR managers that they lack experience in dealing with industrial action.

Over the past few months, several sectors such as the air and rail transport workers, firefighters and recently media have been restive and resulted in paralyzing strikes. The latest strike was Friday’s journalists strike at British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

The bulk of the strikes were over issues such as salaries, work patterns and pensions.

Unions such as those in British Airways, British Rail, London Tube and BBC successfully pushed through with their job walk-offs and paralyzed operations of their companies. The only one averted was the firefighters’ strike on Bonfire Night, pending an agreement to settle the work hours dispute between the firemen and management.

In the last 12 months up to August 2010, about 298,000 workers joined strikes throughout U.K. The number is almost twice the 151,000 employees who struck the year before, according to data from the Office for National Statistics.

The industrial situation has worsened with the coalition government’s austerity measures which will result to job losses in the public and private sectors by the thousands.

The BBC strike, however, also gave freelance journalists an opportunity to shine. One such media personality is news presenter Gavin Grey, who took over the duties of BBC Breakfast presenters Bill Turnbull, Sian Williams and Susanna Reid. Another one is Emma Crosby, who read the lunchtime news on Sunday.

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