Civil servants will this afternoon walk out of their workplaces in protest at cuts to their pay, pensions and conditions.
PCS members at most government departments, except HM Revenue and Customs, the Home Office and UK Border Agency, will take the action as part of a three-month campaign which started with a national strike on Budget day.
Around 55,000 of the union’s members in HMRC will hold a half-day strike on Monday morning. A planned strike in the Home Office and UKBA on Monday has been postponed.
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: “These walkouts, following our strike on budget day, are part of an ongoing campaign of industrial action and protests to put pressure on a government that is refusing to even talk to us.
“Civil and public servants are working harder than ever to provide the services we all rely on but, instead of rewarding them, the government is imposing cuts to their pay, raiding their pensions and trying to rip up their basic working conditions.
“We have asked for talks but ministers and senior officials have refused, so we are taking action to oppose and shine a light on what are deeply unfair and unnecessary cuts to the living standards of hard-working public servants.”
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