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N30 strikes in Wrexham.

Michael Harrison | 30.11.2011 19:11

Today (Wednesday, 30 November) the nation wide pension strikes were carried out, here is how it went in Wrexham, Wales.









Today (Wednesday, 30 November) the nation wide public sector strikes were carried out by many of the big unions, The unions that took part in these strikes were Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), Unison, Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), GMB (Trade Union), The University and College Union (UCU) and NASUWT (National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers).

It is estimated that today 700 union members turned up to the Wrexham strikes, They were striking agaist the governments plans to cut public sector workers pensions, as one union member said to me "work longer for less the money".
Today there was about 17 picket lines then they all joined up on in Queens Square at about noon to hear from 2 speakers, after the speakers finished rallying the strikers they marched around town until they got to Hill Street, The march ended with everyone (as many as they could fit) going into Grove Park Little Theatre to hear from some other speakers.
Sadly i was not able to go into the theatre so my rally ended then. So to sum up the day, it all went very well with a good turn out and lots of noise made.

Michael Harrison
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