One of the biggest Public Sector strikes in recent history has hit Britain today, with as many as 750,000 workers staging a 24-hour protest over changes to their pensions.
Workers from schools, colleges, airports, ports, courts and prisons have all refused to show up for work in what some union officials are calling "the best supported strike we have ever seen". This action is the result of new Government plans to change public sector pensions which they claim are currently costing the taxpayer too much money as life spans continue to increase. However, workers' unions believe that the changes are completely unjustified and will force their members to work well in to their 60's and then receive a pension too small to comfortably live on.
Chaos and Closures
Schools are one of the worst affected sectors, as roughly one third have had to close today, whilst another third will be partly closed. This equates to about 12,000 schools around the UK being affected, leaving hundreds of thousands of children at home for the day.
