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Hundreds of\r\nevents have been held as part of what the organizing unions have claimed is the\r\nbiggest walkout in a generation. All strike ballots\r\nhad been in favour of the strike, and the unions expected some 3 million public\r\nsector workers could be involved. In spite of the disruption\r\ncaused, at many occasions the public showed sympathy for the strike (a few days\r\nearlier, an\r\nopinion poll commissioned by BBC News suggests over 60% of people believed\r\npublic sector workers were justified in going on strike). In Manchester for example, \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.bbc.co.uk\u002Fnews\u002Fuk-england-manchester-15943829\">an\r\nestimated 20,000 marchers had come into town\u003C\u002Fa> with one message for the\r\ngovernment – “Everyone deserves a decent\r\npension”, as one Unison poster declared. In\r\nScotland, with an estimated 300,000 went on strike, some\r\n10,000 people took to the streets in Glasgow and an estimated 7,000 workers\r\nmarched in Edinburgh. TUC confederation general secretary Brendan Barber\r\ntold a \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.bbc.co.uk\u002Fnews\u002Fuk-england-birmingham-15961407\">rally at Birmingham’s National\r\nIndoor Arena\u003C\u002Fa>: “This\r\nis an unprecedented day - 30 unions have members taking action together.” Barber added: “The brutal truth is\r\nsimply this - that the living standards of millions of low and medium-paid\r\npublic service workers are being hammered in the name of reducing the deficit.\r\nThe cuts are beginning to scythe through our public services, more and more\r\njobs are under threat, and as the pay freeze bites - while inflation roars\r\nahead - real wage cuts are making it harder than ever to make ends meet” (See also this\r\nCollective Bargaining Newsletter Year 4 April, May, June, July-August, September\r\nand October 2011).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"CM5\">English: \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.bbc.co.uk\u002Fnews\u002Fuk-england-15971714\">http:\u002F\u002Fwww.bbc.co.uk\u002Fnews\u002Fuk-england-15971714\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cbr\u002F>\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.bbc.co.uk\u002Fnews\u002Fuk-england-15954967\">http:\u002F\u002Fwww.bbc.co.uk\u002Fnews\u002Fuk-england-15954967\u003C\u002Fa>; \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.bbc.co.uk\u002Fnews\u002Fuk-15910621\">\u003Cbr\u002F>http:\u002F\u002Fwww.bbc.co.uk\u002Fnews\u002Fuk-15910621\u003C\u002Fa> \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.bbc.co.uk\u002Fnews\u002Fuk-scotland-scotland-politics-15938970\">\u003Cbr\u002F>http:\u002F\u002Fwww.bbc.co.uk\u002Fnews\u002Fuk-scotland-scotland-politics-15938970\u003C\u002Fa> \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"CM5\"> \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"discreet\">\u003Cem>This\r\narticle was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims\r\nto facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support\r\nthe work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more \r\ninformation, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam \r\nInstitute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) \u003Ca href=\"mailto:M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl\">M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl\u003C\u002Fa>. or the communications officer of the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova \u003Ca href=\"mailto:mnikolova@etui.org\">mnikolova@etui.org\u003C\u002Fa>. You may \r\nfind further information on the ETUI at \u003Ca class=\"external-link\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.etui.org\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">www.etui.org\u003C\u002Fa>,\r\n and on the AIAS at \u003Ca class=\"external-link\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.uva-aias.net\u002F39\" target=\"_blank\">www.uva-aias.net\u003C\u002Fa>.\r\n © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2011.\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\n","light",{"text":43,"link":44},"Contact us",{"title":43,"url":45,"description":43,"rel":46,"type":47,"id":48},"\u002Fabout\u002Fcontact","follow","internal",24590,[],[],[],[],[],false,"\u002Fwork\u002Fliving-wages\u002Fcontact-us","\u003Cp>Welcome to WageIndicator. Same organisation, same information, new look!\u003C\u002Fp>"]