Guardian Unlimited: Strike hits key services across UK
The biggest national strike for decades saw widespread disruption across the UK today as 1.5 million local authority workers walked out in a row over pensions.
As today’s 24-hour stoppage saw public services grind to a halt, this afternoon the government confirmed its plans to go ahead with the controversial pension changes.
Schools, leisure and day centres were shut across most of the country. Other services such as burials, courts and refuse collection were also affected by the strike, which began at midnight.
Head denies politicising pupils on strike day
A primary school headteacher who reached an agreement with staff to abandon strike plans today in exchange for a day of teaching children about activists and reformers dismissed claims he was trying to politicise his pupils.
Bloomburg.com: Local Workers’ Strike May Be Biggest in 80 Years
Teaching assistants, clerks, trash collectors and other government workers throughout Britain shut down thousands of schools and disrupted transportation and businesses in what may be the nation’s biggest strike in 80 years.
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