Pay: time to fight to win
National disaggregated strike ballots in the PCS civil service union over pay, job protection and pensions will run from 18 March to 13 May. Background: a period of unprecedented long term pay decline, with the Tories seemingly bent on imposing another poor pay round in 2024. The Government has recently acknowledged that “Civil Service average pay within grades has shown a general downward trend in real terms since 2008, due to below-inflation increases.” PCS’s own research shows that civil service median annual pay by grade has fallen by up to 38%. PCS desperately needs to win the 171 legal...