The head of the UK civil service has written to all civil servants urging them not to vote for industrial action. The move comes as the biggest civil service union, PCS, begins a ballot of all its 300,000 members. The union says that the government now wants annual staff cuts of 5% a year over the next five years on top of the 100,000 job reductions demanded by the Gershon efficiency review. PCS also points out that the government has set a pay limit of 2% this year when inflation is already running at over 3%. The union is asking members to support industrial action in order to strengthen its hand in forthcoming negotiations.
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