Where? In London. Saw only a blip about this on MSM. This is major NEWS!
Why the silence in the USA about this? Fear of a bigger OWS movement maybe?
Britons Strike Over Extended Austerity Measures
LONDON — Hundreds of thousands of public employees walked off their jobs in schools, hospitals, airports, courtrooms, libraries, museums and government offices on Wednesday, as British workers became the latest in Europe to demonstrate mass fury at government austerity measures.
The one-day strike was biggest here since the 1970s, the era that brought forth the Winter of Discontent, with waves of labor disputes that all but crippled the country. This time, the immediate issue was Prime Minister David Cameron’s proposal to require public employees to work for more years and pay more toward their pensions each month.
But the strikers’ anger goes far deeper, and as they passed government buildings in Whitehall, some chanted, “We strike right back!” — a reference to the Conservative-led government’s budget-cutting measures, which some feel amount to a war on lower-income workers. Many strikers said that the policy of decreasing welfare benefits and tax credits while also making huge cuts across the board in all government departments had left them struggling at a time of rapidly rising prices.
Dylan Ratigan led off yesterday on his show and Michael Moore mentioned it on his web site, but I didn't notice it on the major cable news.
I know the Fed sent lots of money to Europe, but where'd the money come from? And we already know the banks KEEP and hoard it.
Maybe its time for OWS to encourage a one day strike here.