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Staff to walk out at three Liverpool job centres over festive period

PCS Union members have voted in favour of a walkout this month

Liverpool Echo

First DWP strike dates announced as benefits staff walk out over Christmas

Around 200 back office staff will down tools for two whole weeks over the Christmas break - with more DWP strike dates expected to follow - in a battle for a 10% pay rise

Daily Mirror

Roads ‘could come to a standstill’ as National Highways workers go on strike

The action will coincide with planned strikes by RMT members on the railways

Evening Standard

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UK faces more transport chaos as thousands of 'angry' civil servants strike next month

Today the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) announced that action would begin in mid-December after talks with the Cabinet Office failed to yield an agreement

Daily Mirror

UK facing Christmas travel chaos as civil servants in three departments to strike

Stoppages will affect passport and border checks, driving tests and farm payments throughout Christmas

The Guardian - UK

Border Force and Home Office staff prepare to go on strike

PCS union moves to add to ‘substantial strike fund’ for dispute

The Independent UK

Ports, Border Force, driving tests and licences to be hit by strikes

The Public and Commercial Services union said action will start in mid-December and continue for a month.

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Military to cover for striking Border Force staff in 'desperate' Suella Braverman plan

Hundreds of Armed Forces personnel look set to be drafted into ports and airports after 100,000 civil servants voted to strike over pay and pensions - including in Border Force

Daily Mirror

Military set to fill in for Border Force guards during winter strikes OLD

Union bosses warn of ‘extraordinary disruption’ at airports and key ports like Dover

The Independent UK

UK civil servants in Whitehall and frontline services vote to strike

Services from passports to pensions could be affected as 100,000 PCS union members to join nurses in wave of stoppages

The Guardian - UK

PCS union: 100,000 civil servants vote for strike action in row over pay and pensions

Union gives government ultimatum: ‘Offer substantial proposals or sustained industrial action will go ahead’

The Independent UK

100,000 civil servants vote to strike from passports to DWP - full list of areas hit

The Public and Commercial Services Union asked more than 150,000 Government employees at 214 departments across the country whether to join national industrial action

Daily Mirror

Union accuses DWP of 'cynically delaying' redundancy announcement until after strike vote

The Public and Commercial Services Union said hundreds of jobs are at risk at 13 sites across the country with the Department for Work and Pensions launching a volunatary redundancy scheme

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak scraps plan to axe 91,000 civil service jobs admitting ‘top-down targets’ fail

Ban on fast-stream recruitment of graduates – imposed by Boris Johnson – also lifted

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The Independent UK

Court staff begin nine-day walkout over case management system

The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) said members working as legal advisers and court associates will strike from Saturday to October 30.

Daily Mirror

Strikes could run for 'months' if hundreds of thousands of workers back walkouts

PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka warned that disputes over pay and working conditions could run into the Spring and said people were fed up of the Government's 'callous, brutal dismissal' of workers' concerns

The Guardian - UK

Union leader urges Keir Starmer to make clear he is on side of workers

Unite’s Sharon Graham says Labour leader must not ‘stand on the sidelines’ as workers go on strike

Daily Mirror

What would a general strike mean and will there be one as unions warns of joint action

Trade union bosses have been escalating calls for mass coordinated strike action this winter, raising questions about whether a general strike could be imminent

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The Guardian - UK

UK union leaders step up warnings of synchronised strikes this winter

Bosses tell TUC congress they stand ready to coordinate action, although there are no calls for a general strike

The Independent UK

Government spent over £3billion on temporary agency staff to do civil service jobs

Ministers accused of wasting money and running down pay and conditions

Reuters

After high profile sacking, UK civil servants fear for jobs under Truss

"Speaking truth unto power" has long been the motto of Britain's civil service, but now some government workers charged with offering ministers impartial advice whatever their party are fearful of their political bosses and are keeping quiet.

Daily Mirror

Passports and drivers' licences could grind to a halt as 150,000 civil servants vote on strike

A winter of discontent looms in key departments like the DWP, DVLA and Passport Office - after the PCS union launched its biggest ever strike ballot at 214 organs of government

Evening Standard

MPs criticised for skipping queue to see Queen lying in state as David Beckham waits with public

Cleaners, security staff and caterers in Parliament are being treated ‘as second class citizens’ as they cannot jump the line, a union said

The Independent UK

MPs skipping queue to see Queen lying in state sparks criticism

Cleaners, security staff and caterers in Parliament are being treated ‘as second class citizens’ as they cannot jump the line, a union said.

The Guardian - UK

The threat to lay off King Charles’s staff while the nation mourns is despicable

My union has demanded the notification be immediately withdrawn, says Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union

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