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UK Workers Flex One-Day Strike Muscle Protesting Below-Inflation Raises - 07/17/08The United Kingdom saw a bit of chaos on Wednesday as hundreds of thousands of workers walked off the job. Jesse Russell reports: Anywhere from 300,000 to 500,000 civil servants walked off the job in the UK as part of a one-day strike. The walk out disrupted libraries, schools, garbage collection, sports centers and more as workers protested a plan to only raise wages by 2.45 percent, a plan that is below the rate of inflation. The workers are represented by the trade union Unison, and General Secretary Dave Prentis said the workers who walked off the job are some of the lowest paid in the government as the costs of necessities like bread and heating oil sharply increase. Posted 07/16/2008 - 5:03pm | 242 reads
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