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May 11th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Hundreds of prison officers walked out of work on Thursday as part of wildcat strike action in protest at the government’s pension reform plans.
Prisoners were placed in lockdown as officers joined hundreds of thousands of other public sector employees including police, lecturers, court staff and other civil servants.
In London, on-duty police officers were placed in the odd position of policing 20,000 of their off-duty colleagues.
Police officers from every force in England and Wales donned black baseball caps with the words “Cuts are criminal”, in a protest that brought parts of the capital to a standstill.
Union leaders said more than 400,000 workers across the country took some form of industrial action as part of the protests, which they said would continue for the rest of the year.
At a rally in Westminster the government was accused of lying about the effect of the changes, while union leaders pledged to continue organizing more strikes as soon as next month.
“Today has been a fantastic success and there will be more strikes in June, at the end of the summer, the winter, next spring and on and on and on”, said Len McCluskey, general secretary of Unite union.
Mark Serwotka, leader of the Public and Commercial Services union, added government claims that some people would be better off after the reforms were a lie.
Prison officers started their unannounced protest meetings at 7am against government plans to link their normal pension age to the state pension age. It is only the second time they have gone on strike. The Prison Officers Association (POA) said more than 80 percent of its members took part in the meetings outside jails.
The government said that the walkout was unlawful and threatened the union with legal action unless the prison officers returned to work.
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