Civil Servants' Strike Hits Offices and Prisons

Birmingham Post (April 14, 2004)

Author: Emma Pinch

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An estimated 3,000 workers in job centres, benefit offices and prisons across the West Midlands went on strike yesterday to protest over pay.

Union leaders representing workers at the Department for Work and Pensions and the Prison Service estimated up to 80 per cent of their members in affected offices were taking part in the 48-hour walk- out.

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Civil Servants' Strike Hits Offices and Prisons

Most of the 15 job centres in Birmingham city centre were closed to the public along with the Birmingham Pensions Service ...

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