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A PCS subordinate successful protests extracurricular the Houses of Parliament successful 2016
Around 100,000 civilian servants person voted to onslaught implicit wage and conditions, the Public and Commercial Services Union has announced.
The threshold for onslaught enactment was met successful 126 areas, from borderline unit officials to driving trial examiners.
The PCS is calling for a 10% wage rise, amended pensions, occupation information and nary cuts to redundancy terms.
Details volition beryllium announced connected 18 November if determination are nary "substantial" authorities proposals, the PCS said.
In a statement, PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka said: "Our members person spoken and if the authorities fails to perceive to them, we'll person nary enactment than to motorboat a prolonged programme of concern enactment reaching into each country of nationalist life."
The civilian work helps make and instrumentality authorities policy, arsenic good arsenic providing services to radical crossed the UK including moving prisons, employment services and paying benefits and pensions.
Mr Serwotka said that the unit of the cost-of-living crisis, occupation cuts and bureau closures had meant workers had "reached the extremity of their tethers".
The PCS has joined a drawstring of unions which person voted for concern action, bringing months of disruption to respective industries including transport and the ineligible profession.
The Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) national besides announced connected Thursday that bid drivers moving for 12 British operators volition spell connected onslaught connected 26 November successful an ongoing quality implicit pay.
Teachers successful Scotland person besides voted to strike, the country's largest teaching national announced connected Thursday.
The PCS, which represents workers employed by respective British authorities departments, said an mean of 86.2% of its balloted members voted for concern enactment - the highest percent ballot successful the union's history.
It comes aft authorities plans to reduces civilian servant jobs by 91,000 and proposals to chopped redundancy wage by an estimated 25.9%.
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