Portuguese trade unions have organised a day of action to protest against the austerity measures being and the government's 2011 budget plan to cut wages for civil servants by 5 percent and freeze pensions.
Portugal is following Greece, Spain, France and Ireland in the fight against cuts with a major protest march also been planed here in London on the 26 of March. It is ironic that a crisis created by the incompetence of the banking system is being paid by the same people who had to bail the banks out.
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