The Age: Strike wave another blow to embattled Brown
BRITAIN has been hit by the most wide-ranging wave of work stoppages in a decade, with more than 100,000 public-sector employees, from teachers to coastguards, striking against the Labour Government.
It was another blow to Prime Minister Gordon Brown after he was forced by party rebels into a humiliating policy reversal over tax and suffered a devastating opinion poll a week before local elections that will be his first major electoral test as leader.
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