As many as 1.5 Million government workers, members of 11 unions, went on strike on Tuesday in protest of a governemt decision to reduce their retirement benefits, a change which would take effect in October. The strike closed thousands of schools, libraries and leisure centres, disrupted communters , and reduced some facilities to emergency only staffing. The benefits change, would effect the "85 year rule," of the Local Government Pension scheme, which allows government employees to retire at 60 as long as the sum of their age and their years of employment sum to 85 or greater. According to union representitives , the new retirement plan is targeted at lower paid employees, leaving higher paid employees to enjoy the same benefits as before. The participating unions point out that this is likely to be the largest strike in Britain since 1926.
As many as 1.5 million government workers, members of 11 unions, went on strike on Tuesday in protest of a government decision to reduce their retirement benefits, a change which would take effect in October. The strike closed thousands of schools, libraries and leisure centres, disrupted commuters , and reduced some facilities to emergency only staffing. The benefits change, would effect the "85 year rule," of the Local Government Pension scheme, which allows government employees to retire at 60 as long as the sum of their age and their years of employment sum to 85 or greater. According to union representatives , the new retirement plan is targeted at lower paid employees, leaving higher paid employees to enjoy the same benefits as before. The participating unions point out this is likely to be the largest strike in Britain since 1926.
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