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The biggest walkout in a generation
Public sector takes on pay and pension cuts

by Conrad Landin
and Luke James

STRIKING workers will rally today in what could be the largest walkout since 1926, demanding an end to government-imposed pay freezes and attacks on pensions.

Nurses, firefighters, transport workers, teachers, local government clerks and many more will join picket lines a day after Tories threatened to impose new anti-union laws if they win the next election.

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