Mass public sector strikes threat over 2% pay policy - The Guardian 22nd May 2008

Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers may stage a series of one-day strikes this summer to protest against Gordon Brown's policy of holding pay rises at 2%. Civil servants, teachers, lecturers, local government workers and firefighters and some ambulance workers are to vote on industrial action over the next two months. Last night Brendan Barber, the TUC general secretary, warned that the government faced "difficult industrial disputes with public service unions determined to battle hard to defend living standards".

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