Reuters: Irish unions call off Thursday’s strike -government
DUBLIN, Dec 1 (Reuters) – Irish trade unions have agreed to call off a fresh public sector strike on Thursday against planned spending cuts in next week’s budget for 2010, Prime Minister Brian Cowen said on Tuesday.
Up to 250,000 nurses, teachers and other public workers held a one-day strike last week over government plans to cut the public sector pay bill by 1.3 billion euros in the Dec. 9 budget and they had threatened a second day of action for Thursday.
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