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Britain's Strike over Extended Austerity Measures: "We're being made to pay for the mistakes of others"

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                                                                        Lefteris Pitarakis, Associated Press

 

Students demonstrated during march Wednesday in central London. About a third of local Government employees stayed off the job for the day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

London, Glasgow and other British cities aren't New York, L.A., Philadelphia et al and their occupy movements or Madison, Wisconsin last winter when public service workers demonstrated against Governor Walker and his attempt to end collective bargaining, but you'd never know it as hundreds of thousands of British public sector employees took to the streets protesting the extended austerity measures against them by the conservative led British government.

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