"It means civil and public servants will be taking strike action from today until the end of April, with workers in the Passport Office on strike for five weeks until May 6," the PCS union said in a statement.
“Our members are not backing down in this dispute," PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka said. "Ministers need to take notice that we’re escalating our action, and they need to resolve the dispute by putting money on the table."
Earlier this month,
thousands of civil servants across several government
departments staged a series of walkouts alongside waves of other
employees, including railway workers, doctors and teachers in
demand of better pay rises to cope with a cost-of-living crisis.
(Reporting by Muvija M; writing by Farouq Suleiman; editing by
Mark Heinrich and Leslie Adler)