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Britons head to polls in key test for PM Brown ... The planned change in the pension system is the main reason. Railway traffic will stop for another 15 minutes due to the disagreement with the investigation of the railway accident in Moravany, East Bohemia, Polacek said. The accident, in which one engine-driver died, was allegedly caused by the defect of the new safety system. The engine drivers will thus join the general strike organised by the CMKOS umbrella trade union. "We do not want our members to retire after the age of 63 years," head of the railway trade union Petr Cechak said. All other trade unions will stop the strike at 2:00 p.m., but the rail strike will continue for another 15 minutes, Polacek said. The one-hour general strike will take place at 1:00 p.m.
on June 24. The CMKOS associates 32 trade unions with about 540,000 members. On the same day, the strike of medical staff and doctors will take place. The protest is also likely to cripple public transport in big towns. The trade unions want the government to reconsider the planned public budgets reform. They also want it to rewrite the pension reform and to discuss the taxes and amendment to the Labour code with them.
(Ceske Noviny)
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