As strikes grow, postal and rail workers walk off the job.

Rail workers are going on strike for a second day, and Royal Mail workers and people who test drivers are also on strike.

On a day when snow, ice, and fog made it hard to get around by road or air, rail workers went on strike and cut service by about 20%.

On Wednesday, about half of the rail lines will be closed again, and most of Scotland and Wales will have no service at all.

This week is also likely to be the first time nurses strike across the whole country.

And on Friday, people who work on trains, buses, highways, and with bags will walk off the job.

Later this week, the government's emergency Cobra committee will meet for the second time this week to talk about how to lessen the effects of the wave of strikes.

115,000 members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are on strike at the same time as Royal Mail's busiest time of year, when people and businesses send Christmas cards and gifts.

Some package companies say that the Royal Mail strike is having a domino effect and making them delay next-day deliveries because people and businesses are looking for other ways to send their mail.

DPD Group said, "We are having short delays with our next-day delivery service in a few places because of the strikes at the Royal Mail, which have had a huge effect on the whole industry."

The delivery company Evri, which used to be called Hermes, said bad weather, Royal Mail strikes, and a lack of staff are causing "some localized delays."

Yodel also said that deliveries to some areas are taking longer, but they didn't say why.

This week, Royal Mail workers are going on strike, and they will also do so on December 23 and Christmas Eve.

The fight has been going on since the summer, and like all the other strikes in rail, the NHS, schools, at the border, and with driving instructors, pay is a major issue.

As the cost of living goes up, workers want to get paid more. The rate that prices are going up, which is called inflation, is more than 11%, which is the fastest rate in more than 40 years.

This is mostly because the prices of food and energy have gone up.

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