Hundreds of thousands strike in UK pensions row

[cory777]

Source: AFP

Hundreds of thousands of British public sector workers went on strike Thursday to defend their pensions, causing widespread disruption to schools and state-run services.

A third of English schools were closed and another third were affected, officials said, as up to 350,000 teachers, lecturers and education staff took action against plans to make them work longer and pay more into their pensions.

Tax offices, museums and job centres were also brought to a standstill as a further 100,000 civil servants walked out on the first nationwide day of strike action since the coalition government took office last year.

However, airport operator BAA said feared delays at London Heathrow because of a walkout by immigration and customs staff failed to materialise, and ministers said only half the civil servants who could have downed tools actually did so.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/mass-public-sector-walkout-begins-040031375.html

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[FreakinDJ]

1. This is what Political Activism looks like

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. Solidarity! Pay attention Americans.

This is what it's all about. This is how you use civil resistance to advance workers rights.

Somehow it doesn't hurt as much that the US has lost it's sense of solidarity if it least lives on in other countries.

[Nihil]

3. Not really ...

Nothing about "advancing workers rights", just self-centred hypocrisy
from people who didn't give a shit about anyone else suffering before
because they had a cushy number that was insulated from the pressures
of the outside world until quite recently.

Here, have a crocodile tear for "the cause" ...