Civil servants set to strike on Budget day

About 100,000 civilian servants are acceptable to onslaught connected the time the chancellor unveils the Spring Budget, the Public and Commercial Services national has said.

Mark Serwotka, wide caput of the PCS, said members would locomotion retired connected 15 March arsenic portion of an ongoing enactment with the authorities implicit wage and conditions.

The PCS has been calling for a 10% wage rise, amended pensions, occupation information and nary cuts to redundancy terms.

The authorities has been contacted for comment.

The PCS represents thousands of workers who enactment successful authorities departments arsenic good arsenic workers astatine organisations specified arsenic Ofsted, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, and Border Force.

The national said its members from 123 authorities departments would instrumentality portion successful the concern action, which see unit astatine the Department for Education, Department of Health and Social Care and the Home Office.

Some 100,000 civilian servants antecedently walked retired connected February 1.

Mr Serwotka said PCS members were "suffering a wholly unacceptable diminution successful their pay".

"Rishi Sunak doesn't look to recognize that the much helium ignores our members' demands for a wage emergence to get them done the cost-of-living crisis, the much aggravated and much determined helium makes them," helium said.

He said the premier curate could "end this quality time if helium puts much wealth connected the table".

"If helium refuses to bash that, much enactment is inevitable," Mr Serwotka added.

The Spring Budget successful March volition spot Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, who is successful complaint of the government's finances, outline to the House of Commons his plans for taxation and spending.

The authorities has antecedently offered civilian servants a 2% to 3% wage rise, but national bosses person been calling for a emergence of 10%, a akin level to the complaint of wide ostentation successful the UK, which is astatine a 40-year high.

Price rises person been squeezing household budgets and determination has been a question of strikes crossed the UK successful sectors ranging from healthcare to railways successful caller months.