What's happening?

Empty classrooms with no teachers. Trains stuck at stations with no drivers. Hospitals with no doctors.

Today, hundreds of thousands of workers across the UK are on strikeWhen people refuse to work until their demands for changes have been met. . 

This means that they have chosen not to go to work until leaders agree to pay them more and give them the resourcesA stock or supply of things, such as money or food, that can be used to fulfil a purpose. Earth's natural resources include air, water, soil, minerals, fuels, plants, and animals. they need to work properly. For example, some teachers say their schools simply do not have enough money to teach students.

Today is also budgetA plan for income and spending over a certain time period. day - the day that Britain's leaders say how they plan to spend the country's money over the next year. 

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The strikes make life difficult for many people - they cannot travel to work by train and have to stay at home with their children, who cannot go to a school with no teachers.

Now, Britain's leaders want to make a new law to make it harder for workers to strike. 

But people who support the strikes say they are supposed to make life difficult. The point is that by not turning up to work, they show people just how important they are. 

And, they say, every person should have the right to ask for better pay and a better time at work. 

Yes! Everyone should be able to ask for better pay and to be treated well at work. 

No! Strikes do not just hurt leaders. They hurt other people too - like students trying to learn and people who are trying to get to work.