Driving examiners and rural payment officers at more than 250 sites across the UK have announced a month of strikes in the first wave of sustained industrial action by civil servants.
Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency and the Rural Payments Agency will take part in a series of rolling strikes from December 13 to January 16. DVSA and RPA are two of 124 government departments and other public bodies that have voted for strike action over pay, pensions, job security and cuts to redundancy terms.
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: "This is the first wave of the hardest-hitting industrial action the Government will have faced in decades and will cause a massive amount of disruption. The government, which has spent years turning a blind eye to our pay demands, will no longer be able to ignore us.
