Staff at Merseyside passport offices are to stage five weeks of strike action.
The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union has confirmed more than a thousand workers across England, Scotland and Wales are to leave their posts for industrial action. Staff from Liverpool and Southport will be joined by those working in Durham, Glasgow, London, Newport and Peterborough from April 3 to May 5.
The action is an escalation of the union’s long-running dispute over pay, pensions, redundancy terms and job security and is likely to have a significant impact on the delivery of passports as the summer approaches. It is the latest strike action by members of the PCS Union, with Home Office workers out on the picket on Wednesday in Liverpool city centre and Bootle.
