UK transport faces month of strikes

June 4th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

The Friday strike by driving examiners will be followed by a series of other short strikes by the staff in the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.

The week-long action will be followed by walkouts by personnel at the Department for Transport headquarters and a number of agencies including Highways and Driving Standards.

The PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said the strikes are a reaction to the government’s persistence with its “entirely unnecessary” austerity measures and pension and pay cuts.

“With unemployment high and our communities suffering as a result of the Government’s cuts, ministers should be providing all the help they can to local economies that are crying out for support and investment.,” Serwotka said.

“Instead they’re ploughing on with entirely unnecessary and unpopular cuts to vital transport services. These strikes across the whole range of transport services form a major part of our ongoing fight against cuts to pensions, jobs and pay.,” he added.

The strikes over pension changes are now spreading across almost all parts of the British public sector while police officers, teachers and border agency staff, among others, have already taken action.

This comes as a range of unions and agencies have also announced nationwide or local strikes over the pay and pension changes as well as austerity cuts including workers at HM Revenue and Customs who voted last week to take industrial action over announced job cuts.

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