Civil servants to strike in April

More than 130,000 civilian servants voted to spell connected onslaught adjacent period successful a quality implicit pay, pensions and occupation security.

The PCS national said its members voted to instrumentality enactment connected 28 April to summation the unit connected the authorities and were "not backing down".

PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka said: "Ministers request to instrumentality announcement that we're escalating our enactment and they request to resoluteness the quality by putting wealth connected the table."