Strike begins Monday 🔴 Passport Office workers in Glasgow will launch a five-week strike on Monday in the increasingly bitter civil service dispute over jobs, pay, pensions and conditions.
Picket lines will be mounted outside the offices in Glasgow, Durham, Liverpool, Southport, Peterborough, London, Belfast and Newport in Wales.The union said those taking action will be supported by a strike fund.
He has accused ministers of treating its own employees differently to others in the public sector after negotiations were held with unions representing health workers and teachers. The Home Office said the Passport Office has already processed more than 2.7 million applications this year, adding over 99.7% of standard applications are being processed within 10 weeks, with the majority of those delivered to customers well under this timescale.
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