Independent UK: Unions hail public sector strike (2 million strong)

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David Cameron told the Commons that the "irresponsible and damaging" industrial action had been far from universally supported as he defended the Government's controversial pension reforms.

Officials from 30 unions involved in today's strike reported huge support, with up to 90% of some organisations taking action, often for the first time in their lives.

The strike closed more than three quarters of schools in England, as well as courts, museums, libraries and jobcentres, disrupted transport, hospitals and Government departments, led to around 15% of driving tests being cancelled, and was described by unions as the biggest since the 1979 Winter of Discontent.

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Unison leader Dave Prentis said: "I wouldn't call two million people taking strike action a damp squib. Cameron is sounding increasingly desperate in his attacks on public service workers.
"He has only to turn on the TV, or listen to the radio - or look out the window - to see the nurses, dinner ladies, paramedics, social workers, teaching assistants, lollipop ladies amongst others standing up for their pensions. And the thousands of picket lines, demonstrations, rallies and events are not a figment of our imagination. These people are angry public servants who the Government has driven to the end of their tether." ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/unions-hail-public-sector-strike-6269862.html

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1. Kick for the Badass Britons !!!!

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2. wish us Americans could get it together for just 1 day

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3. k&r

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4. K and R. It is time for the people to wake up and rebel.

Politicians are bought. Most of the mass media are controlled. Electronic voting systems are rigged.

Corporations are trying to take over the Internet and stifle dissent.

The only recourse left to the 99-percent is direct action.

We have to stop playing their game as passive workers and gullible consumers.

Protest movements such as OWS must be supported and expanded.

Americans must stop enriching Wall Street by buying poorly made overpriced junk imported from low-wage countries such as China.

By their actions, the 99.99 percent seem intent on eliminating the middle class and replacing our representative form of government with a feudal system made up of a tiny group of royalty served by a coterie of loyal servants with a mass of impoverished serfs kept in poverty and cowed by a heavy-handed police establishment.

Empires collapse when they go too far, and the U.S. will not be an exception to the rule.

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