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Schools closed, hospitals and municipal services slowed: public employees are on strike on Wednesday in the UK. Unions intend to make this movement a real show of force against a government uncompromising on its pension reform. According to the organizers, up to two million people must join this action in a country unaccustomed to large social movements and always very punctilious about the negative consequences for users.
No accurate estimate of participation is available in mid-day. In Scotland, unions estimate the number of public sector strikers to about 300 000 While in Wales, 170,000 workers joined the movement. The administration felt that the NHS about 6000 common medical procedures were canceled in the UK, as well as tens of thousands of appointments. For example, in the capital, 42% of the NHS are on strike.
The first effects of the strike were felt quickly thousands of families have had to keep their children at home, three quarters of schools being affected. In England, more than half of schools are closed, and 13% are partially closed. Picket lines were set before the public buildings, including hospitals where often only emergency care were provided. Municipal services also turned in slow motion, as the courts.
The protest movement has gained throughout the United Kingdom. Thousands of demonstrators beating the pavement in London, but the British also took to the streets of Birmingham, Leeds, Exeter or Aberdeen. In Manchester, the procession was attended by about 15,000 protesters, police said, and Cardiff, they were to march 3000.
Transport undisturbed In Northern Ireland, no bus or train does. But the ports and airports where it was feared massive queues, lack of staff in sufficient numbers to control the borders, have however been spared. Departure and the arrival of Eurostar trains, no disturbance was visible. Nor in the two major airports, Heathrow and Gatwick where staff had however provided biscuits and water to feed passengers to dormant potential. According to a spokesman for British Airways, two-thirds of employees responsible for control at Heathrow were at their posts. The government had, indeed, sought to limit the mess by calling the ministry officials to replace the strikers. Some companies also anticipated by canceling flights. "It is very significant Heathrow, which is supposed to be the most vulnerable seems to work fine," did not fail to note Francis Maude, Secretary of State to the Prime Minister David Cameron.
A "damp squib", according to David Cameron The Prime Minister described the movement of "damp squib." He stresses the "absolutely essential" to the pension reform because of the increase in life expectancy and the necessary balance with the private sector. As part of its austerity plan, the government plans to push back the age of retirement in the public sector to 66 years in 2020 - against 60 years for most current - and to increase contributions. The pill is more difficult to move it just announced a wage freeze for civil servants until 2013, in addition to the 710,000 job cuts by 2017 in the public service.
"Pensions: Hands off!" "This government is full of money to the poor" but "it does not touch the bonus, or the banks," complained Russel Challinor, 49, who participated in a picket line in front of a town hall in the center of London. At University College Hospital, a hundred people were installed at the entrance with placards proclaiming: "Pensions: hands off". In the street, motorists operate their alarms to greet the strikers. "Rarely do we strike in the health sector," said Mark Milligan, 42, anesthesiologist assistant. "But I think we'll go further, there will be other changes next year," he said.
"We are angry because we made plans, and that they change all that. We had agreed last year on a pension reform, and now they still want to change everything , "joked Gill, a nurse of 47 years. But the movement is not popular with everyone, one launched from "greedy bastards" towards the picket line at the University of London UCL, said Matthew Beaumont, a professor of English literature 39. "It put me flat on morale," he agrees, hoping a massive participation in the strike. "I think it will be huge, especially after the declaration of war by George Osborne (Finance Minister) in his budget presentation yesterday," he considers. He went on calling it "punitive and vindictive" the announcement of a limitation of 1% of the increase in salaries of civil servants in 2013 and 2014, while inflation is currently 5%, and after a wage freeze in 2011 and 2012.
by http://businesnew.blogspot.com/
Schools closed, hospitals and municipal services slowed: public employees are on strike on Wednesday in the UK. Unions intend to make this movement a real show of force against a government uncompromising on its pension reform. According to the organizers, up to two million people must join this action in a country unaccustomed to large social movements and always very punctilious about the negative consequences for users.
No accurate estimate of participation is available in mid-day. In Scotland, unions estimate the number of public sector strikers to about 300 000 While in Wales, 170,000 workers joined the movement. The administration felt that the NHS about 6000 common medical procedures were canceled in the UK, as well as tens of thousands of appointments. For example, in the capital, 42% of the NHS are on strike.
The first effects of the strike were felt quickly thousands of families have had to keep their children at home, three quarters of schools being affected. In England, more than half of schools are closed, and 13% are partially closed. Picket lines were set before the public buildings, including hospitals where often only emergency care were provided. Municipal services also turned in slow motion, as the courts.
The protest movement has gained throughout the United Kingdom. Thousands of demonstrators beating the pavement in London, but the British also took to the streets of Birmingham, Leeds, Exeter or Aberdeen. In Manchester, the procession was attended by about 15,000 protesters, police said, and Cardiff, they were to march 3000.
Transport undisturbed In Northern Ireland, no bus or train does. But the ports and airports where it was feared massive queues, lack of staff in sufficient numbers to control the borders, have however been spared. Departure and the arrival of Eurostar trains, no disturbance was visible. Nor in the two major airports, Heathrow and Gatwick where staff had however provided biscuits and water to feed passengers to dormant potential. According to a spokesman for British Airways, two-thirds of employees responsible for control at Heathrow were at their posts. The government had, indeed, sought to limit the mess by calling the ministry officials to replace the strikers. Some companies also anticipated by canceling flights. "It is very significant Heathrow, which is supposed to be the most vulnerable seems to work fine," did not fail to note Francis Maude, Secretary of State to the Prime Minister David Cameron.
A "damp squib", according to David Cameron The Prime Minister described the movement of "damp squib." He stresses the "absolutely essential" to the pension reform because of the increase in life expectancy and the necessary balance with the private sector. As part of its austerity plan, the government plans to push back the age of retirement in the public sector to 66 years in 2020 - against 60 years for most current - and to increase contributions. The pill is more difficult to move it just announced a wage freeze for civil servants until 2013, in addition to the 710,000 job cuts by 2017 in the public service.
"Pensions: Hands off!" "This government is full of money to the poor" but "it does not touch the bonus, or the banks," complained Russel Challinor, 49, who participated in a picket line in front of a town hall in the center of London. At University College Hospital, a hundred people were installed at the entrance with placards proclaiming: "Pensions: hands off". In the street, motorists operate their alarms to greet the strikers. "Rarely do we strike in the health sector," said Mark Milligan, 42, anesthesiologist assistant. "But I think we'll go further, there will be other changes next year," he said.
"We are angry because we made plans, and that they change all that. We had agreed last year on a pension reform, and now they still want to change everything , "joked Gill, a nurse of 47 years. But the movement is not popular with everyone, one launched from "greedy bastards" towards the picket line at the University of London UCL, said Matthew Beaumont, a professor of English literature 39. "It put me flat on morale," he agrees, hoping a massive participation in the strike. "I think it will be huge, especially after the declaration of war by George Osborne (Finance Minister) in his budget presentation yesterday," he considers. He went on calling it "punitive and vindictive" the announcement of a limitation of 1% of the increase in salaries of civil servants in 2013 and 2014, while inflation is currently 5%, and after a wage freeze in 2011 and 2012.
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