Teachers and binmen stoke summer of discontent fears as they join striking rail workers

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Fears of a general strike in Britain are mounting as binmen and teachers join 50,000 rail workers in Mick Lynch's mass walkouts today.

Unite West Midlands shared a picture on Twitter this morning of workers gathered outside Coventry station waving the green flags of Lynch's RMT union and a red National Education Union banner which read: 'Unity is strength'.

Tweeting in solidarity with the RMT's 50,000 striking members, the union said: 'Workers stand together. The backbone of this country the workers of this country deserve and demand better. We support the @RMTunion #railstrike Enough is enough! #CovBinStrike workers join our rail colleagues in Coventry'.

Lynch has plunged Britain into a 'de facto lockdown' this week after last-ditch talks over pay and working conditions collapsed yesterday.