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More workers set to join council strike
Up to 100,000 civil servants could join 600,000 local government workers on strike in July, as 40,000 more council workers in Unite pledge to strike too.
One of the biggest outbreaks of industrial unrest for years will see tens of thousands of job centre workers, coastguards, driving examiners and other Government employees join a strike next month by council employees.
More than half a million local authority workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are staging a two-day walkout on July 16 and 17 after rejecting a 2.45% pay offer.
Science museum in strike ballot
National Science Museum staff are being balloted on strike action after voting overwhelmingly to reject below inflation pay offers for 2007-2008 and 2008-2009.
The ballot for industrial action will open on Friday May 16 and close on June 2nd
Members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) working for the National Museum of Science and Industry (NMSI) are furious that a below inflation pay offer has been imposed on them at a successful time for the museum.
Ofsted workers latest to strike over pay
Ofsted inspections across England are halted today as 1000 staff walk out in a dispute over pay.
Inspections of nurseries, children's care homes, childminding services and boarding schools will all be hit. Ofsted has imposed a below inflation pay deal along with a new pay structure, which members of UNISON and the PCS have rejected.
This is the latest public sector stoppage over sub-inflationary pay rises - real pay cuts
100,000 civil servants to strike on April 24
Workers in ten government departments and agencies will join thousands of other public and voluntary sector workers in a strike over pay.
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) stated that over 100,000 members will be on strike at the same time as other public sector workers, including teachers and lecturers in a one day strike on 24 April in protest at the government's policy to cap public sector pay to below inflation, which will result in cuts to living standards across the civil service.
Coastguards join day of strikes
As previously reported on libcom, following their first ever strike coastguards are due to walk out alongside tens of thousands of other workers on April 24 over poor pay.
The first strike in the history of the MCA on 6 March drew strong support hitting emergency and 999 distress calls and led to the closure of nearly half of the UK's 19 rescue co-ordination centres. The remainder operated on a severely reduced service and were staffed by a handful of managers.
April 24 – hundreds of thousands to walk out
On Thursday April 24 thousands of civil servants, coastguards, council workers, FE lecturers and charity workers will join a national teachers strike of 200,000.
Employer attacks on workers' pay is the main issue at stake.
Teachers in the NUT are walking out over their pay deal which was supposed to be revised when inflation rose, but the government refused: effectively cutting their wages.
Coastguards hold second strike
British coastguards took part in a second 24-hour strike last Friday 11th April over pay.
The coastguard station in Holyhead, Anglesey, was closed with calls being handled by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) in Liverpool. Milford Haven and Swansea coastguards were also be involved in the strike.
The UK-wide strike started at 7am April 11th, involving 600 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and will affect coastguard operations rooms.
Two-day DWP strike ends
Thousands of Job Centre and benefit office staff carried out a 48-hour strike this week against a new three-year pay deal.
It was the second 48-hour stoppage in protest of the imposed three-year pay deal, which works out as an average 1% a year for some staff.
700 workers out in first ever Maritime and Coastguard Agency strike
700 Maritime and Coastguard Agency workers were out on strike today, the first in the agency's history.
The strike, in protest at pay levels that have lagged hugely behind other emergency services follows other recent action against public sector pay cuts in response to similar pay cuts (Pay 2007 archive). Centres across the country remained closed, including those in Solent, Brixham, Holyhead, Belfast and London.
Department for Transport workers to strike
The Public and Commercial Services Union today announced a one day strike on 29 February involving over 8,500 members working for the Department for Transport (DfT) and five of its agencies.
The one day strike will hit driving tests, regional centres controlling the flow of motorway traffic as well as the half yearly introduction of new number plates, and is in response to a series of below inflation pay offers and widening pay gaps between the predominantly female staffed DVLA and the predominantly male DfT and related agencies.
