Who’s on strike TODAY? Thousands of civil servants walk out as DWP staff in Liverpool and Swansea down tools on February 25
- Civil servants in Swansea and Liverpool continue their strikes today
- The DWP and DVLA protests are the latest in months of demonstrations
Civil servants in Swansea, Birmingham and Liverpool will continue their strikes today over their working conditions and wages against inflation as the UK continues to reel from strike action.
The demonstrations come after a week which has seen ambulance staff in Northern Ireland and airport workers also strike off for better deals.
March looks set to be dominated by protests too- with a host of strike action planned across the public and private sector ranging from Tube staff to Amazon workers.
The pickets are just the latest in a series of protests that have dogged Britain in recent months since the ’12 strikes of Christmas’ – which saw rail workers, staff, nurses, ambulance staff, teachers, security guards handling cash, cleaners, porters, driving examiners, airport workers, rural payments officers and civil servants all strike off.
This action was followed in the new year by mass protest on February 1, dubbed Walkout Wednesday, which saw 500,000 workers including teachers, lecturers, civil servants, train workers, bus drivers, Border Force agents and security guards all down their tools in the biggest day of industrial action in a decade.
February and March will see a host of strike action across the public and private sector
Here’s who’s striking today across the UK and why.
Civil service – UK
A host of civil servants who are part of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) will continue their walk out today which will continue into the weekend.
Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) employees at various job centres are taking their 15th day of job action over pay, pensions, job security and redundancy terms.
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) staff in Swansea and Birmingham are also staging a stoppage.
After taking five days of job action last month they are striking for six days.
DVLA staff in Swansea and Birmingham are striking
What’s to come?
Rail workers will stage another series of nationwide strikes next month in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.
The Rail, Maritime and Transport union said their industrial action will start on March 16 after ’employers refused to put any new offers on the table’.
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: ‘Rail employers are not being given a fresh mandate by the government to offer our members a new deal on pay, conditions and job security.
‘Therefore, our members will now take sustained and targeted industrial action over the next few months.’
Junior doctors have also announced they will stage a 72-hour walk out in March over pay and working conditions. The date of this picket has not yet been decided.
In a statement, the BMA said: ‘While workload and waiting lists are at record highs, junior doctors’ pay has been cut by more than a quarter since 2008,’ the BMA said.
‘A crippling cost-of-living crisis, burnout and well below inflation pay rises risk driving hard working doctors out of their profession at a time when we need them more than ever.’
Ambulance staff will also take strike action next month on March 6 and March 20.
GMB and Unite union members from the West Midlands, North West, North East and East Midlands will all picket on those dates.
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