Union leaders plan mass strike
Sunday 20 January 2013
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EmailLeaders of the Unite, PCS, POA and UCU unions will meet in Liverpool this Saturday to take steps towards a general strike against austerity.
The Merseyside TUC conference will look at the practicalities of a regional strike after the issue was agreed at TUC Congress.
Unite leader Len McCluskey said: "Any form of resistance that makes this government take a step back is positive."
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