Thousands of lower-paid civil servants are today staging a strike in protest over the Government's controversial pension levy. The general secretary of the Civil and Public Services Union (CPSU) has said there has been a 100 per cent turnout of his members in today's one-day strike against the Government's pension levy.
Blair Horan said that 13,000 people are involved in the action, which has affected civil service departments as well as revenue commissioners, and social welfare and passport offices around the country.
Mr Horan said that the pension levy was particularly unfair to lower-paid civil servants who are represented by his union, and that it was important to make that statement today.
Mr Horan said that the CPSU would be staging further protests from the March 9th against the pension levy but that these would be on a more regional basis and would not involve all-out strikes. Read More
Courtesy: Irish Times
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