Central strike action News

The Shadow Home Secretary has told ITV News that today's police demonstration shows the "scale of damage" that the government is doing to policing.

She believes that communities will "pay the price" for the cuts introduced.

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• strike action
• Yvette Cooper

About three hundred workers from the PCS, the UCU and UNITE converged on Queen Elizabeth Hospital from different locations for a demonstration.

As one of the city's largest public sector employers they say the hospital is exactly the kind of place that will be affected by further attacks on their pay and pensions.

• Politics
• Birmingham
• unions

Thousands of workers from across the Midlands are taking industrial strike action today.

Union leaders are estimating that up to 400,000 workers will be involved in demonstrations across the country.

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• Birmingham
• strike action

Thousands of workers from across the Midlands will taking industrial strike action today.

Union leaders are estimating that up to 400,000 workers will be involved in demonstrations across the country.

Civil servants, health workers, lecturers, staff from the Ministry of Defence and immigration officers will be joining the strikes and other forms of protest across the UK.

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• telford