Land Registry workers announce five-day strike
They will be joined by a new wave of DVLA workers, says PCS
More than 350 Land Registry workers in Birkenhead, Coventry, Croydon, Durham, Fylde, Gloucester, Hull, Leicester, Nottingham, Peterborough, Plymouth, Swansea, Telford and Weymouth will take action from February 27 to March 3.
They will be joined by 14 DVLA employees working in ‘stores’, in a variety of roles including driving forklift trucks to move office supplies and important printed material across the department’s Swansea site.
The strikes are the latest escalation in the union’s national strike in 123 government departments over pay, pensions, redundancy terms and job security.
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: “As long as the government shows no sign of resolving this dispute, we’ll show no signs to stopping strike action.
“Ministers seem able to find money for just about everything other than giving their own employees a decent pay rise. PCS members have had enough of being taken for granted.”
PCS members are this week on strike at the DWP, British Museum, DVLAand Animal and Plant Health Agency.
And an estimated 1,000 Border Force officials will begin strike action on Friday (February 17) in Dover, Calais, Coquelles and Dunkirk.
100,000 PCS members will be taking strike action on Budget Day, March 15.