County workers on picket lines

Wednesday 24th March 2010, 10:06AM GMT.

Shropshire workers from the public sector were joining picket lines across the county today as hundreds of thousands of civil servants staged a national strike.

In an escalation of a bitter dispute over cuts in redundancy pay, the Public and Commercial Services union said it wanted to “ratchet up” political pressure.



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