25/06/2022 GMT

In most countries the cost of living is soaring but wages are struggling to keep up with inflation. At the same time the fallout from the pandemic means there are labour shortages in many economies, so have workers ever had a better opportunity to ask for a pay rise?

Sharan Burrow, who is head of the International Trade Union Confederation, the world's biggest union movement, tells Aaron Heslehurst the squeeze on living standards is fuelling a growth in strikes and protests.

With workers in the driving seat like never before the CEO of the world's biggest employment agency, Randstad's Sander van 't Noordende, says companies also have to be mindful of the conditions they offer their staff if they want to keep hold of them.
One sector that's really struggled to retain workers is the aviation industry, and as the northern hemisphere heads into summer, Willie Walsh, the boss of airline group IATA lays out the scale of the challenges in keeping us all moving.