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I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show.
Today's story is for beginners.
The name of the story is three drops of blood.
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At the moment, in the UK, many universities are striking.
A strike is when people decide to not work because their work conditions, their work life is very bad.
For example, people might strike because they are not paid enough, they might strike because they work in dangerous conditions and so on.
There were many minors strikes.
So many minors.
Many coal miners striked in the eighties and nineties in the UK.
And now many universities are striking.
The reason they are striking is two things.
First, pensions.
So when you retire, when you stop working at around 65 or 70, the government pays you pensions.
So during your life you pay money into your pension, and when you retire, the government pays you your pension.
But people working in universities, their pensions have decreased and they also have to put more money into their pensions now.
So they're paying more and getting less.
Another big problem in universities in the UK is bad contracts.