Public sector workers hold strike

Mar 9 2010

The Scottish Parliament has suspended business as thousands of public sector workers joined a second day of UK-wide strike action.

Holyrood cancelled its usual committee meetings while courts, job centres, tax offices, museums and government were affected by the industrial action.

The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union is unhappy at changes to civil servants' redundancy terms. Pickets were held across the country, including Parliament, where members lobbied MSPs. The union said about 90% of its 33,000 members took part in the strike in Scotland.