Yesterday’s moments strikes across England will be reverberating for weeks to come.
The extraordinary response from UNISON members – and support from the public – was clear, and you can look back at that on the rolling report we ran throughout the day.
But today, let’s have a further look at action across London, as photographer Marcus Rose followed UNISON’s general secretary Christina McAnea to three pickets.
It began at Waterloo, with vast media interest, before continuing to Deptford, where it wouldn’t be Christmas without a babe in arms (see above) and then ending after dark around the brazier in Edmonton.
It might have been the shortest day of the year, but in many ways it was the longest.
![Christina McAnea addressing the massed ranks of media at the Waterloo picket](https://www.unison.org.uk/content/uploads/2022/12/Christina-Waterloo-1.jpg)
Christina addressing the media at Waterloo
![Christina McAnea at the Waterloo picket](https://www.unison.org.uk/content/uploads/2022/12/Christina-Waterloo-pickets-and-banner.jpg)
Christina with striking members at Waterloo
![Christina McAnea with striking members at Waterloo and an ambulance](https://www.unison.org.uk/content/uploads/2022/12/Christina-ambulance.jpg)
With striking members at Waterloo
![Christina McAnea, smiling and have a cuppa =as she chats with members at Deptford](https://www.unison.org.uk/content/uploads/2022/12/Christina-tea.jpg)
Time for quick cuppa, as Christina chats with members at Deptford
![Pickets at Deptford holding handwritten signs calling on passing drivers to honk their support](https://www.unison.org.uk/content/uploads/2022/12/Deptford-Honk-signs.jpg)
Honk for the NHS!
![Pickets at Deptford with placard and flaming brazier](https://www.unison.org.uk/content/uploads/2022/12/Deptford-brazier.jpg)
It’s not a picket without a brazier – especially not in December!
![Christina McAnea and striking members around a brazier in Edmonton](https://www.unison.org.uk/content/uploads/2022/12/Around-the-brazier.jpg)
From one brazier to another – this time in Edmonton