page_title: J30 Protests
section_title: East Anglia
hierarchical_section_title: J30 Protests / East Anglia
caption_attribution_description: English: NUT ATL UCU PCS strike rally outside the Forum in Norwich against draconian government cuts in their pension conditions
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: A joint NUT, ATL, UCU, PCS strike rally took place outside The Forum in Norwich against "draconian" government cuts in their pension conditions. Norwich International Airport's passport control workers mostly planned to ignore the strike not expecting strikes on the 30th.
  Peterborough Trades Union Council claimed 1,000 people joined the local strike and rally in Peterborough city, which was one of the largest the city has ever seen. The protests were over the Government's proposals to alter their pensions. The unions involved included the UNISON, National Union of Teachers and the Public and Commercial Services Union.
  Between 400 and 600 members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), University and College Union (UCU) and the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) held a protest rally in Cambridge. A total of 8 South Cambridgeshire district schools near the Hertfordshire border were closed.
caption: A joint NUT, ATL, UCU, PCS strike rally took place outside The Forum in Norwich against cuts in their pension conditions.
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