National civil service strike looms
The PCS public services union has called on the government to negotiate over its 2% pay limit or face a campaign of industrial action across the civil service. Unless the union receives a positive response from the government then a one-day national strike will go ahead on 10 November. This will be immediately followed by a civil service-wide overtime ban and then a campaign of targeted industrial action across a range of different services leading into 2009. Read more at > PCS (EN)