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11-Mar-08 10:10 [Pay and Reward]
DWP staff to strike Staff at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are set to go on strike following a dispute over pay and employee reward.
Next Monday and Tuesday up to 80,000 staff will be walking of the government's biggest department following the objections of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union to the three-year pay offer.
Mark Serwotka, general secretary, said: "The budget is an ideal opportunity for the government to address its policy which is driving down pay across the civil service."
He added that two per cent pay cap is affecting some of the lowest paid in the public sector who are "seeing their pay cut in real terms as a result".
The union has claimed that the pay offer will result in 40 per cent of staff receiving no rise in their wage this year.
Jobcentres, benefit offices and pension centres are all set to be affected by the strike.
The DWP also runs the child support agency, disability and carers service and the rent service.
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