United Kingdom was paralyzed by the largest strike decades. That there occurs

To United Kingdom on February 1 there takes place a "general" strike the civil servants demanding, among other, to raise them salaries taking into account inflation. Despite the decision of the authorities to replace some striking with military, social spheres in the country were captured by "collapse", write local mass media. According to the British congress of trade unions (the trade-union center TUC), a today's strike — the largest for the last decade. By estimates of labor unions, about 500 thousand people took part in it. It is expected that the action will cost to budget 200 million pounds sterling (about $246 million). How it was...