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30 November 2011updated 17 Jan 2012 2:51pm

Why we are right to strike

There will be more to come if the government doesn't start meeting the needs of ordinary people.

By Mark Serwotka

Two days before the largest strike in a generation, I addressed a packed hall of trade union members in Glasgow. They were united and determined to resist this government’s raid on their pensions – and that was before they’d heard George Osborne’s autumn statement.

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