1.5million set to strike today over pensions

Workers across more than nine different unions are set to strike today over an attack on the local government pension scheme, with the Labour government planning to increase the age workers can retire at.

You can read the background to the strike here on libcom.org news:
http://libcom.org/news/article.php/uk-pensions-strike-170306

You can also check out our new in-depth feature on the pensions crisis, currently under construction here:
http://libcom.org/pensions

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