‘ It is not local authority pensions that has left a big hole in government coffers’
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Ambulance staff in London among first on picket lines this morning
More than 400,000 on strike
Hundreds of thousands join the action
Millions of ordinary working people make history today
Sheffield lays claim to one of the most unusual pickets of the day
UNISON women are striking for decent pensions
Thousands of strikers, demonstrators and activists gather at Castle Park in Bristol.
Nurses describe moment they went on strike
Picket lines began in darkness at Bristol’s Frenchay Hospital, where UNISON members joined forces with Unite and GMB in protest.
Sheffield NHS workers feel the chill of the pensions proposals
UNISON NHS workers were striking from dawn outside London’s Guy’s and St Thomas’s hospitals
‘We are getting wonderful support’
As a community psychiatric nurse living in Swindon, Paul Gore proudly states that today he is sstriking for the first time ever’
Bristol City Council workers were out on strike from 6am to defend their pensions