Civil Servants to Strike

According to the BBC article 270,000 civil servants to join 48 hour strike, many of the Public and Commercial Services Union workers will partake in a strike due to the loss of up to a third of their entitlements. Members of government departments, museums, the Royal Court of Justice, as well as workers in Parliament are all expect to join in on the strike. Many Britons fear that this strike will affect their everyday lifes, as the jobs held by these civil servants help run day to day operations. The reason for the strike comes from the tearing up of contracts with low paid civil and public service workers, while contracts with bankers and other wealthier groups continued to be honored.

This article is relevant to the nature of the British class system, easily its most obvious social cleavage. Does the government respect the "higher class" more than it does the workers who keep society running smoothly? Those on the short end of the deal could possibly be questioning the legitimacy of any government contracts at all since theirs were not honored and kept, as promised.

Grade this post. 3/7/2010.

Picture credits to BBC.