Various sources in the Occupied Areas are reporting that the continuing actions by the CY workers of the Occupied Lefkosa Municipality entered in to new territory today with the arrest of 23 union members, including the union president, during protests outside government buildings, including the "parliament" building.
Roads are also reported to have been blocked by the strikers who added more waste to the piles of smelly household rubbish that have plagued the streets of Occupied Nicosia for months.
Several people were injured and needed hospital treatment when police" forced their way in to the union building without "warrants".
The "police" response to today's protests is described as being heavy-handed and "brutish".
The president of the strikers is reported to have declared that the striking CYs were "...ashamed to live in "trnc"..." and that the action would be extended in to funerary burials and the water supply.
Unionists have called for a General Strike for later today, Friday 28th.