Approximately 1.5 million local civil servants (according to trade unions) were on strike Tuesday throughout Great Britain, to protest against a reform of their retirement pensions, which they consider inequitable compared to what civil servants of the central administration receive. (Réf. 06299)
This 24 hours strike gathered a number of participants in the streets which was never reached since the general strike of 1926, according to the figures given by trade unions. This reference must be interpreted in the British context, rather calm on the social scene during a long part of the post-war period (except the Seventies and the beginning of the Eighties), and where the number of working days lost per annum, because of a strike, is very low since the middle of the Eighties. This...
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