Demand for new passports spikes as more than 1,000 workers start five weeks of strike action
More than 1,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services union at eight sites across the country will walk out in an escalation of the long-running row.
Picket lines will be mounted on Monday outside the offices in Glasgow, Durham, Liverpool, Southport, Peterborough, London, Belfast and Newport in Wales. More than 1,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services union from the Passport Office are walking out.PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka has written to the Government calling for urgent talks in a bid to resolve the dispute, accusing ministers of treating its own employees differently to others in the public sector.
The union is stepping up strikes across the country, with a nationwide walkout of more than 130,000 civil servants set to take place on April 28.
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