Hundreds of thousands leave jobs over pensions
(NEWSER) - Britain’s public sector ground to a halt today as hundreds of thousands of workers walked off the job in protest of changes to their pension plans. Roughly a third of the country’s schools had to close, with many of the rest running on skeleton staffs, the New York Times reports. Airports, sea ports, and several other government services were affected as well, while others, like courts and unemployment services, had contingencies in place to keep their doors open. More»
