Tax and welfare staff in Bradford are set to strike over cuts to pay, pensions, jobs and working conditions.
The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union has announced that job centre and benefit office workers from the Department for Work and Pensions and staff from HM Revenue and Customs will walk out on Monday.
They will hold a rally in the memorial gardens next to City Hall at noon. It is part of a week of strike action planned by more than 30,000 workers across the country.
PCS Yorkshire and Humber regional secretary Juanita Charles said: “Like their colleagues across the civil service, our members in these two key departments refuse to stand by and watch while the government cuts their living standards, their jobs and the vital public services they provide.”
The strike action comes as the union is campaigning to stop government plans to close all 281 of HMRC’s walk-in tax advice centres.
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