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Firefighters to swell the ranks of July 10 strikers

FIREFIGHTERS will swell the ranks of two million other public-sector workers when they walk out next Thursday, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced yesterday.

The firefighters’ action will be the latest in their long-running dispute with the government over pensions.

Unions Unite, Unison, civil servants' PCS and teachers NUT are already committed to the biggest mass strike in England and Wales in decades.

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