Striking Does Nothing to Help Pensions Crisissmall Change Sympathy for Public Sector Workers Planning Industrial Action Can Only Go so Far . . . A New Approach to Working Practices in All Areas Is Essential, Says Teresa Hunter

Sunday Herald › March 21, 2005

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PUBLIC sector workers are planning to strike this coming week over government plans to make them work until they are 65 to get a pension.

It is likely to be a major disruption unless moves to avert it by pensions minister Alan Johnson, are successful.

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Striking Does Nothing to Help Pensions Crisissmall Change Sympathy for Public Sector Workers Planning Industrial Action Can Only Go so Far . . . A New Approach to Working Practices in All Areas Is Essential, Says Teresa Hunter

Some have predicted the walkout could be the biggest since the general strike of 1926.

The unions are convinced of the justification of the...

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