Current industrial action
The Conservatives have again fallen into the trap into thinking that the general public believe what the Conservative right wing believes.
The Tories believe that the rail strike is vey unpopular with the electorate and that it will turn people against the Labour Party. The truth is that the electorate knows that the rail workers have not had a pay rise in over 3 years and that inflation over the last year to date is 11%. Everyone other than Tory rampant right wingers knows that the rail workers have a very good case. Furthermore, the union leader Mick Lynch is well liked by the electorate.
Any Tory who believes that this industrial action is unpopular with the public and will move the mood of the electorate against the Labour party is deluded.
As for the nurses they were not luxuriously paid in 2010 under a Labour government but their pay since then has fallen a long way behind the real value that it had then.
Once again this will not adversely affect the electorate's opinion of the Labour Party.
There are several other pay disputes that are going to come to industrial action. It is quite likely that the electorate will blame the party that has been in government for over 12½ years.