PCS ballot


The PCS civil service union is urging up to 120,000 civil servants to vote Yes in a ballot on strike action over pay. The ballot will run until 29 April.


The union has calculated that the average civil servant, on a salary of £26,000, is now worse off by a massive £2,110 a year. 


Average civil service pay has fallen in value by comparison with the local government, health and education sectors by 11.4%.


“Put your money where your mouth is”, PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka told the UK’s most senior civil servant Sir Mark Sedwill in response to the Treasury’s 1% pay offer for 2019.


Serwotka lambasted the cabinet secretary for sending an email urging civil servants “to stick at” as “the country faces a difficult period”.


“The hypocrisy of this is truly breathtaking,” he said. “If he really thinks you’re doing such a great job he needs to do something about the disgraceful 1% pay offer he is planning for you to have this year.”

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