More than one million public sector workers went on strike in
The strike, the biggest since Prime Minister David Cameron's coalition government took power in 2010, involves a wide range of workers from teachers and civil servants to street sweepers and park attendants.
A string of protests is planned around
As part of a push to balance public finances, Cameron's centre right-led coalition government froze public sector salaries in 2010 for two years and has since limited pay rises to one percent a year.
Unions say this means that salaries cannot keep up with rising living costs and that "enough is enough".
Despite the strikes, the government said it expected "the majority of hard-working public servants to turn up for work across the country".
Cameron has attacked the low turnout in the union ballots which led to the strikes and vowed to introduce legislation to ensure a minimum number of people take part in a ballot for it to be legal.
"How can it possibly be right for our children's education to be disrupted by trade unions acting in that way? It is time to legislate and it will be in the Conservative manifesto," he told the House of Commons Wednesday.
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