LOCAL government workers took part in the biggest countrywide strike for 80 years yesterday.
About 1,000 trade union members went on strike in Bromley to protest at the Government's plans for local government worker pensions.
The row centres around the plan to scrap the so-called 85 Rule under which workers whose age and length of service add up to 85 years can retire early.
It means a worker aged 60 with 25 years' service can retire before they are 65.
Bromley Unison branch secretary Glenn Kelly said: "There's no reason for a dispute to exist and for the Government to change our scheme. We were faced with no alternative but to strike."
More than one million workers went on strike yesterday second only to the General Strike of 1926 when between three and four million workers took part.
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