RMT: solidarity with striking PCS civil service workers (9.3.10)

Up to 270,000 civil and public servants from across the UK held a successful 48-hour walkout over cuts to redundancy terms on March 8 and 9, 2010.

RMT general secretary Bob Crow joined other trade union leaders at a strike rally in central London following a protest march through the capital.

The dispute is over changes to the civil service compensation scheme which will see staff robbed of up to a third of their entitlements and see loyal civil and public servants lose tens of thousands of pounds if they are forced out of a job. The union fears that the government wants to make it easier for whoever wins the general election to cut low paid civil and public servants on the cheap.

video introduced by GEOFF MARTIN
filmed and edited by CHRIS KASRILS

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[fatboi99]

Bob crow is a legend, some of the other union bosses could learn alot from him.

[tomg84]

Public sector workers standing up for your rights. Don't let any government bully us again.

[MrHistoryman45]

Good to see workers resisting at last. This needs to be just the start of it. At the sham election which is to take place in Britain this year all the 3 main parties aided by their media stooges will talk non stop about cuts to services. In fact their rhetoric is designed to take attention away from the fact the financial crisis has been caused by failed banks, whose failed leaders continue to pay themselves obscene bonuses. There are many alternatives to cuts for a start TAX THE RICH!