I can't believe this is being covered by CNN but not by DKOS or any of the major liberal blogs
CNN
London (CNN) -- Mass strikes began across the United Kingdom Wednesday, with up to 2 million public sector workers walking off jobs in schools, hospitals and police stations to protest proposed pension reforms.
Chaos was predicted at Heathrow airport near London, one of the world's busiest international airports, but Wednesday morning operations were more or less normal, officials said
WaPo
Eleanor Smith, president of UNISON — the country’s largest trade union which represents about 1 million health, education and law enforcement staff — said many of those joining the walkouts were striking for the first time.
“The government wants us to work longer, pay more and at the end get less. How fair is that?” said Smith, who joined a picket outside Birmingham Women’s Hospital in central England, where she works as a theater nurse.
Globe and Mail
It’s a general strike, British-style: On Wednesday, more than half the country’s public employees have walked off the job to protest the deep cuts to public-sector pay and pensions being imposed by Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative-Liberal coalition government in a major cost-cutting drive.
In practice, it means that most kids didn’t go to school today – 58 per cent of public primary and secondary schools are closed completely, and only 13 per cent are fully staffed. Hospitals are only taking emergency cases, as most nurses are on strike.
In fact, the school where Mr. Cameron and one of his top cabinet minister, Michael Gove, send their children, St. Mary Abbots Primary School in Kensington, was largely shut down, with only two classes open. [emphasis by me for humour]