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SharynS
Post Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:15 pm

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In the biggest strike since the historic general strike of 1926, over a million local government workers struck in defence of their pensions yesterday, March 28th. This was undoubtedly the largest and most solid public sector strike ever in Britain.

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atuuschaaw
Post Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:56 am

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Seems the Brit style Biz-U is no different than the North American Biz-U!

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But from the outset, the leadership of the 11 unions involved in the dispute sought to demobilize any active participation by workers...more


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SharynS
Post Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:12 am

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north american labour dudes have been spending much time on the global road. Making things "bigger" one could presume. It's nice to see their shit doesn't sell quite as well on the foriegn market.

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