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🚨🚨 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬!!🚨🚨
100,000 Public and Commercial Services (PCS) members in 124 government departments and other bodies* will take strike action on 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟏.
More to follow.
#PCSonStrike
#BlameTheGovt
#RightToStrike
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What's "grossly offensive" is how the Tory Govt treats its own staff.
We have highlighted an excerpt from a response from 𝗧𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗣 𝗝𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘀 to one of
@pcs_union
members.
📢 All out tomorrow 1 Feb 📢
Pls RT ✊
#RightToStrike
#BlameTheGovt
#pcsonstrike
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“We’re not asking for a luxurious life, we just want to pay our bills’
Well done to Jack Ogden, Branch Secretary, PCS Home office, Greater Manchester branch.
Jack tells the BBC why PCS members are on strike today
#PCSonStrike
#BlameTheGovt
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PCS seriously considering taking legal action to prevent our members being forced to carry out unlawful acts.
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Trade unions have a long & proud history of standing with oppressed people around the world.
PCS is affiliated to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Please get involved in local events & demos this weekend.
Please find more information here:
@PSCupdates
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🚨🚨 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀! 🚨🚨
100,000++ Public and Commercial Services (PCS) members in 123 government departments will walk out on 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟭𝟱 as strike action escalates
More to follow.
#PCSonStrike
#BlameTheGovt
#RightToStrike
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PCS strike ballot results: Massive yes vote for strikes.
The legal turnout threshold of 50% has been achieved in many areas allowing for major industrial action.
#PCSballot
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MASSIVE picket outside the Home Office HQ in London. Whether your picket looks like this or only has one person, PCS members are doing us proud today.
#PCSonstrike
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Thank you, Jeremy, for your enduring solidarity.
Civil servants were told to accept real-terms cuts to pay and pensions.
Today, they are unified and defiant in their response.
Solidarity with all
@pcs_union
members. I'll see you on the picket line.
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First
#PCS
picket line pic of today is from 04.30am at the Border Force in Hull. Solidarity.
#PCSonStrike
#1FebStrike
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Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell pledging the next Labour government will end outsourcing. Thanks for the solidarity
@johnmcdonnellMP
#LivingWage
#PCSstrike
🤝🤝🤝
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📍📍 ✊✊✊
Defend the Right to Strike – Emergency Protest.
@The_TUC
has organised a protest on Monday 22 May, when the Strikes Bill returns to the House of Commons for the final vote
Read all about it here 👇👇
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Good luck today everyone! Have a great strike day and don’t forget to send in your picket line pics.
Solidarity ✊✊
#PCSonStrike
#WalkoutWednesday
#BlameTheGov
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Solidarity to all striking workers.
500,000 public sector working have been left with no other choice but to withdraw their labour today.
See you on the picket lines!
@ucu
@NEUnion
@RMTunion
@ASLEFunion
✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊
#feb1strike
#pcsonstrike
#RightToStrike
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Sending full solidarity to our PCS Union members starting strike action this morning at:
British Library
Government Digital Services
HM Passport Office
Animal and Plant Health Agency
See you on the picket lines
#pcsonstrike
#BlameTheGovt
More details :
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We recognise that the public will be inconvenienced by PCS civil service members going on strike. But if you are feeling angry, blame the government which has undervalued its own workers for many years and could choose to end these strikes.
#BlameTheGovt
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"We, the working class movement led by the trade unions, are on the move. And you know what?
We are going to win."
@jeremycorbyn
sends a message of solidarity to all striking
@pcs_union
members
#pcsonstrike
#HeartUnionsWeek
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🚨 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀!
Mark Serwotka to retire as PCS General Secretary - “It’s been an honour and a privilege to serve as PCS general secretary for 23 years.”
Read more:
👇👇👇
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Liverpool!
HM Passport Office NW picket line still strong and spirits high.
Sending solidarity your way ✊✊
#pcsonstrike
#BlameTheGovt
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We recognise that the public will be inconvenienced by our civil service members going on strike. But if you're feeling angry, blame the government which has undervalued its own workers for many years and could choose to end these strikes.
#PCSonStrike
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Fantastic message of support to PCS Union members from Mick Lynch 
Solidarity to all PCS strikers ✊✊
#PCSonStrike
#BlameTheGovt
@The_TUC
@RMTunion
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🚨 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀!
More than 400 HMRC workers are to take 18 days’ strike action in a move likely to cause significant problems for businesses across the UK.
They’ll walk out from May 10-12, 15-19, 22-26, 29-31 & June 1-2.
More to follow
#PCSonstrike
#BlameTheGovt
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#PCSonStrike
🎥🎥
“Ten years of being more and more worse off……. People have had enough”
@jeremycorbyn
#BlameTheGovt
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Another big turn out on the picket line from HM Passport Office, Liverpool
Solidarity ✊
#pcsonstrike
#BlameTheGovt
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🚨🚨𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀!
👇👇👇
@pcs_union
and Government Talks Update:
"This is a completely, unacceptable announcement that the Government have made today" - Mark Serwotka, PCS General Secretary - Watch 👇
#pcsonstrike
#BlameTheGovt
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Every time we've asked for
@johnmcdonnellMP
's support we've had it. He's the most vocal and active defender of workers' rights we've known
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"I retire today after 23 years as general secretary in the knowledge that, working with PCS reps at all levels and our dedicated PCS staff, we have built PCS into a campaigning, fighting union."
Read Mark's full message:
#PCS
#MarkSerwotka
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Mark Serwotka throws his support behind
@RLong_Bailey
and
@RichardBurgon
. Our Interserve strikers at FCO also get a mention along with the union's letter to Mark Sedwill. 💪💪💪
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Tens of thousands assembling for the trade union march in London. We will be live from the march very shortly on our Facebook page
#pcsonstrike
#feb1strike
#RightToStrike
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🚨🚨𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀! 🚨🚨
33,000 more PCS Union members return a massive 𝗬𝗘𝗦 𝗩𝗢𝗧𝗘 and will join the Big PCS Walkout on 15 March.
Well done everyone for all the hard work and dedication.
#PCSonStrike
#BlameTheGovt
#WalkoutWednesday
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What a thing of beauty.... 💖
The British Library and The British Museum join forces.
"What do we want?"
"Fair Pay!"
"When do we want it?"
"Now!"
#PCSonStrike
#BlameTheGovt
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What do you call it when Ministers applaud your work, sing your praises on TV but offer you a real-terms pay cut during a global pandemic? 🤔🤔🤔
Answers in the thread ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Big shout out and solidarity to all the striking workers outside Doncaster Job Centre this morning.
DWP on strike!
#BlameTheGovt
#PCSonStrike
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We recognise that the public will be inconvenienced by
#PCS
civil service members going on strike. But if you are feeling angry, blame the government which has undervalued its own workers for many years and could choose to end these strikes.
#BlameTheGovt
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Our first Passport office picket line pic comes in from Durham.
Brilliant, cheery picket line and two well dressed picket line pooches!
Solidarity ✊
#pcsonstrike
#BlameTheGovt
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#PCSonStrike
📢📢📢
Today sees the first wave of
@pcs_union
Industrial Action. Please send messages of solidarity to our members & reps in DVSA & Rural Payments Agency (RPA) who are braving harsh weather on their picket lines this morning.
Picket lines:
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“What do we want? 10%!
When do we want it? Now!
Rishi Sunak here us say, we need you to raise our pay!”
PCS striking members outside the Cabinet Office, 1 Horse Guards Road, London
#pcsonstrike
#feb1strike
#BlameTheGovt
#RightToStrike
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We recognise that the public will be inconvenienced by our civil service members going on strike. But if you are feeling angry, blame the government which has undervalued its own workers for many years and could choose to end these strikes.
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“Civil servants are among those who keep our society running, it’s not the millionaires or the billionaires, it’s you”
@NadiaWhittomeMP
sending a message of solidarity to PCS members
#pcsonstrike
#feb1strike
#BlameTheGovt
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Got to love a good old fashioned, homemade placard.
Get your markers out! Looking forward to seeing more on
#WalkoutWednesday
15 March
#pcsonstrike
#BlameTheGovt
#RightToStrike
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A very proud picket line at HM Passport Office, Peterborough
Solidarity
#pcsonstrike
#BlameTheGovt
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Big
#PCS
shout out to everyone getting ready for their picket lines this morning. This is going to be big!
@ucu
@NEUnion
@RMTunion
@ASLEFunion
#feb1strike
#pcsonstrike
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“How can we have civil servants using food banks? The system is broken, let’s fix it”
@IanByrneMP
on the PCS picket line
#pcsonstrike
#BlameTheGovt
#WalkoutWednesday
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A big shout out and massive solidarity to all PCS Union members striking today at
HM Passport office
British Museum
British Library
Solidarity ✊✊✊
#pcsonstrike
#BlameTheGovt
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Fran Heathcote, PCS GS and Charlotte Church calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza at the Palestine rally outside the US embassy today.
🇵🇸
#Cease_fire_In_Gaza_Now
#solidarity
Note: PCS conference voted to support PSC and we shall continue to do so.
@charlottechurch
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British Library on Strike!
“What do we want?”
“Fair pay”
“When do we want it?”
“NOW!”
#pcsonstrike
#BlameTheGovt
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PCS has been approached by the Cabinet Office with an invitation to meet and discuss all the issues in the UK civil service and related areas dispute.
#PCSonStrike
#BlameTheGovt
Read all about it 👇👇👇
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“I’m facing an unprecedented cut and attack on my standard of living” - Robert Eagleton, Department for Work and Pensions
#PCSonStrike
#PaydayWalkout
#BlameTheGovt
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Picket line babies rocking their beanies. HMRC* (left) and DEFRA* (right). *Note not their real names...
#BlameTheGovt
#PCSonStrike
#PaydayWalkout
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Brilliant turnout in Swansea this morning. DVLA members out on strike.
#pcsonstrike
#HeartUnion
❤️
#BlameTheGov
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PCS recognises how difficult & tough the lockdown has been for members in the past few weeks.We are outraged that there appears to be different rules for senior government advisors than for our members & the public.The cabinet office must conduct an enquiry into this injustice.
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"5% won't pay our rent, Rishi!"
Solidarity to Peterborough passport office.
Proudly rocking the PCS ponchos!
#pcsonstrike
#BlameTheGovt
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PCS has condemned announcements by government departments this week that civil servants who are office workers will be required to attend workplaces for a minimum of 60% of their working time.
Read more:
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🚨🚨 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 🚨🚨
More than 1,000 PCS members working in the Passport Offices in England, Scotland and Wales are to take 5 weeks’ strike action.
More here:
#PCSonStrike
#BlameTheGovt
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'there is unprecedented opposition to this policy within the Home Office. Priti Patel should not deport a single person before the full legality of this policy has been tested by the courts in July' PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka
@BBCr4today
#Rwanda
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I'm not prepared any longer to sit back and watch a Tory Government and Johnson destroy the lives of working people -
@DaveWardGS
tells
#TUC2021
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They’re getting ready for the picket line.
A big shout out to HM Passport Office, Southport. Picket rota being drafted 👊
Solidarity ✊✊
#PCSonStrike
#BlameTheGovt
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We're delighted to announce Mark Serwotka has had a successful heart transplant
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“PCS members are doing a brave thing today because it’s not right that they’re not being paid fairly, they’ve been forced into this strike action”
@RichardBurgon
MP sending a message of solidarity to PCS members
#PCSonStrike
#BlameTheGovt
#feb1strike
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🚨Breaking!
The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union is to launch a national strike ballot of almost 150,000 members in 171 government departments.
Full details:
#PCSonStrike
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PCS members employed by ISS to clean HMRC offices on Merseyside are set to strike 💪 for the whole of August as part of their long-running campaign for the living wage and fair conditions of service.
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PCS General Secretary, Fran Heathcote extends solidarity to Husam Zomlot, Ambassador of Palestine to the UK
#Solidarity
#PCS
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81 on the picket line at 101 Old Hall Street, Passport Office, Liverpool.
Brilliant turn from both members and public supporters. Big thanks to
@IanByrneMP
for stopping by to show support.
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🚨🚨 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀!
👇👇👇👇
Mark Serwotka to meet with Cabinet Office.
The
@pcs_union
general secretary will be meeting with the Cabinet Office tomorrow morning - 14 April
Keep an eye on our social media platforms for updates.
#PCSonStrike
#BlameTheGovt
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An early morning solidarity shout out to all the strikers getting ready for their picket lines this morning. Together we can win!
#PCSonStrike
#WalkoutWednesday
#BlameTheGovt
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British Museum strike kicked off today, fantastic picket line and big support for the action. We’re about to find out if the Museum is closed.
Solidarity ✊✊
#heartunions
#JoinAUnion
#pcsonstrike
#BlameTheGov
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“We’re very clear we’ve got a common enemy and that enemy is the Government. They’re telling you there is no money, they’re lying” - Carlos Barros,
@RMTunion
#PaydayWalkout
#pcsonstrike
#BlameTheGovt
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Whitehall is striking this morning. PCS picket outside the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport HQ at 100 Parliament Street
#PCSonstrike
#1febstrike
Photo by
@andyaitchison
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All set up and ready to go at Manchester Airport, lot's of car horn beeping in support.
Home office members from Border Force taking strike action today.
Solidarity
#PCSonStrike
#BlameTheGovt
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“What do we want?”
“Fair pay!”
“When do we want it?”
“Now!”
#BritishLibrary
#PCSonStrike
#BlameTheGovt
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PCS accuses UK government of having "blood on its hands" over migrant deaths
Read all about it 👇👇👇
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🚨Breaking
Civil servants working at the Home Office (including Border Force Officers and Passport Officers) are to receive up to a 13% pay rise after campaign by
@pcs_union
Read all about it👇👇
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"9% of our Civil Servants are claiming benefits because of low pay. Some of these, the people who administer those benefits; 8% said they've used a food bank and I just wonder what action you are taking minister, to resolve this dispute?" -
@johnmcdonnellMP
#PCSonStrike
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"It's about time we stood up to the awful demonisation of our civil servants by right wing conservative politicians who have spoke with such disrespect about them" -
@RichardBurgon
sends a message of solidarity to PCS members
#pcsonstrike
#BlameTheGovt
#WalkoutWednesday
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Doncaster DWP strikers back out and strong today.
Solidarity everyone!!
#PCSonStrike
#BlameTheGovt
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PCS members taking their message directly to the Cabinet Office this morning
#PCSonstrike
#1febstrike
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A big shout out to Wendell who is standing strong at Greenford driving test centre picket line.
We are all with you in spirit, Wendell. ✊✊
#PCSonStrike
#BlameTheGovt
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Boris Johnson goes out of his way to praise the peerless civil service in his resignation speech. The same peerless civil service that he wanted to cut by 91,000 jobs.
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Day 2 and it’s another 5am start on the border force picket like at the Eurotunnel:
Big solidarity to you ✊✊
#pcsonstrike
#heartunions
❤️
#BlameTheGov
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“Britain is broken and this is a crisis rooted in austerity from 2010.” - Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary makes a rousing speech at the start of
#TUC23
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'We sort your holidays but can't afford our own' is a strong message from the Belfast Passport Office.
#BlameTheGovt
#PCSonStrike
#PaydayWalkout
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Everton Job Centre out on their picket line.
It's a cold and rainy morning so thanks to Collette for proving toast at Downing Street
#PCSonStrike
#BlameTheGovt
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Another great turn out on the Passport Office picket line in Liverpool
Solidarity ✊✊
#pcsonstrike
#BlameTheGovt
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📢📢📢
PCS will demand employers in the civil service and related areas at least match the pay rises of between 5-7% offered this week to more than one million public sector workers, including teachers, police, senior civil servants and doctors.
👇👇👇
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