page_title: J30 Protests
section_title: Greater London
hierarchical_section_title: J30 Protests / Greater London
caption_attribution_description: English: Striking teachers and public sector workers march down the Kingsway, London, flanked by police on June 30, 2011[1][2].
context_page_description: The J30 Protests were a one-day strike held in the United Kingdom on 30 June 2011. The strike was held by public sector workers in an effort to protest the government's planned uncoventional changes to pension plans and retirement policies, including raising the retirement age from 60 to 66 and the replacing of final salary pension schemes with a career-average system. The Driving Standards Agency had recently announced that it was to launch a localised trial to determine whether delivering examiners from non-established test centres could help with growing pupil demand, starting in Warrington, Wiltshire, Ayrshire, Wales and Dumbarton.
  In the one-day strike, pickets and a series of anti-cuts rallies by the National Union of Teachers, Association of Teachers and Lecturers, University and College Union and the Public and Commercial Services Union went ahead largely as planned. Over 11,000 schools in England were affected by the strike, according to the data released by the Department for Education. Nearly 400 schools were closed in greater Birmingham and the Black Country, with another 70 partially shut.
context_section_description: The main march and Trades Union events were in central London on the 30th and attracted 15,000 to 20,000 people to their cause. At one point public service employees marched past Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster during their rally. There were marches and picket lines across London including at the Old Bailey. Camden Town and Marylebone saw a few Camden Council employees hold a local strike and picket over the council's employment terms.  There were queues at Border Control in Heathrow Airport's Terminal Five as some of the immigration and customs staff joined the strike. Pickets targeted the head office of the department for Communities and Local Government in central London and stopped around 20 people from crossing one of the picket lines at Eland House.
  There were 35 arrests in central London and 2 in outer London.  Arrests were made in Whitehall as police and protesters clashed.
caption: Striking teachers and public sector workers march down the Kingsway, London, flanked by police on 30 June 2011.
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