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March 27, 2006
Everybody Out!!
Tomorrow I'm on strike. Well not just me, there will in fact be 1½ million of us across the country in dispute over central government's proposed changes to the Local Government Pension Scheme.
So we're downing tools (in my case pen and calculator) in an effort to force them to agree to protect the pensions of existing council workers against the massive changes that will take effect by 2013. Well it worked for the Civil Service!
At the time of the last all-out strike, in 2002, I was an active union steward and spent the day on the picket line. Tomorrow I'll probably just spend the day doing housework. I don't think I have the heart for the fight anymore. Our working conditions have been gradually eroded over the last five years, we don't enjoy anything like the job security we did when I first joined the Council a mere 12 years ago. No-one seems to have much fight in them anymore and the unions don't have the power they once did. Let's hope, this time, there really is strength in numbers.
Posted by lilliebet at March 27, 2006 07:45 PM
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Comments
How did it go? Was there Power to the People?
Posted by: Z at April 5, 2006 05:54 PM
Hmmph! Not yet. Another strike is planned for next month, two days this time, I'm not sure my bank manager will be pleased. But then his pension's probably well sorted.
Posted by: lilliebet at April 5, 2006 07:11 PM
Good luck.
Posted by: Z at April 8, 2006 03:17 PM