Any news from Family in the UK, regarding what this is about?
2 million protest, and unions united to shut down everything?
REPORTING FROM LONDON -- Up to 2 million public-sector workers walked off the job in Britain on Wednesday, potentially the biggest nationwide strike to hit the country in a generation.
Teachers, border patrol agents, nurses, transport workers and others participated in the mass action to protest government plans to make them work longer before they retire and to contribute more to their pensions.
Officials insist that such changes are unavoidable in light of longer life spans and the need to rein in government spending. Unions and workers say that austerity measures are hitting them disproportionately hard even as executives at taxpayer-supported banks continue to collect huge bonuses.
Schools across the country were shut down or operating with skeleton staffs Wednesday, and parents scrambled to find substitute child care for their kids. Thousands of non-emergency procedures at hospitals were canceled. Courthouses were also hit.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2011/11/nationwide-strike-britain-schools-heathrow.html
2 million protest, and unions united to shut down everything?
REPORTING FROM LONDON -- Up to 2 million public-sector workers walked off the job in Britain on Wednesday, potentially the biggest nationwide strike to hit the country in a generation.
Teachers, border patrol agents, nurses, transport workers and others participated in the mass action to protest government plans to make them work longer before they retire and to contribute more to their pensions.
Officials insist that such changes are unavoidable in light of longer life spans and the need to rein in government spending. Unions and workers say that austerity measures are hitting them disproportionately hard even as executives at taxpayer-supported banks continue to collect huge bonuses.
Schools across the country were shut down or operating with skeleton staffs Wednesday, and parents scrambled to find substitute child care for their kids. Thousands of non-emergency procedures at hospitals were canceled. Courthouses were also hit.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2011/11/nationwide-strike-britain-schools-heathrow.html