A large crowd gathered in Southend for a march and rally in support of postal and rail staff who are on strike.
Southend and District Trades Union Council held its Enough is Enough rally and march today from 10.30am.
The event started with at CWU picket line at 10:30am and then marched to the High Street for speeches.
There were various speeches with plenty of supporters holding placards and waves too.
Luke Elgar, 30, a Southend postman and national executive council member for the communications worker union said: "The turn out probably didn't exceeded our own expectations but it's exceeded a lot of people's expectation.
"I think it demonstrates exactly the anger in the country in light of the fact that no matter what sort of crisis we face it seems its the working people who have to front it up and have to suffer while the corporate of Britain seem to not take a hit but seem to be doubling or tripling their wealth.
"I think the whole range is activity it important, it's about showing solidarity with all the strikers. I think postal workers feel completely undervalued, I think they feel they are treated as cannon fodder just for the corporates to double their money."
It comes after Essex rail passengers were warned not to travel today unless "absolutely necessary" as strike action is set to cause severe disruption.
There will be a reduced c2c service in south Essex today from 07.30am to 6.30pm due to nationwide industrial action.
Just two trains will run per hour from Fenchurch Street to Shoebury via Laindon as well as from Fenchurch Street to Pitsea via Rainham.
No trains will run via Ockendon or Chafford Hundred.
There will also be no c2c trains available after the West Ham match.
Greater Anglia will be running a heavily reduced service of one train per hour between London Liverpool Street and Norwich, Colchester and Southend Victoria. The Communication Workers Union announced that the action in October and November will be a mixture of single days and rolling action across Royal Mail Group’s network.
The union said it will have a “dramatic impact” and will cover peak mail periods such as Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the Christmas build-up.
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