More than 130,000 civil servants will strike today as a wave of industrial action continues to sweep Britain, Report informs referring to Daily Mail.
Members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) in 132 Government departments will walk out in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions - after tens of thousands of teachers forced schools to close by going on picket lines yesterday.
Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS, accused ministers of 'bullying' civil servants as it emerged that Health Secretary Steve Barclay has been accused of 'bad behaviour' towards staff in the Department of Health and Social Care. It comes after Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab dramatically quit when a probe found he had upset staff.
Meanwhile, teachers are set to strike on May 2, with fears growing that pupils face more disruption in the autumn term as head teachers are balloted on launching more walkouts then.
And the RMT has announced a new strike to coincide with the Eurovision Song Contest final in Liverpool on May 13.
The union said its campaign of industrial action shows no sign of abating, with its members on strike next week at the Passport Office, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), and Care Quality Commission.
The union this week announced a 15-day strike at HMRC in the same dispute. It added that its recent research showed that one in five DWP workers claimed benefits and one in 14 DWP offices had their own foodbanks.
It was announced last night that the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) will hold a formal postal ballot of its members in England over pay, funding, workload and wellbeing.
It comes after NAHT members overwhelmingly rejected the recent pay offer from the Government amid concerns that the deal was 'unaffordable'.
Overall, 64 percent of NAHT members in England responded to the union's online consultative ballot, with 90 percent voting to reject the offer and 78 percent saying they would be prepared to vote for industrial action.
All four education unions – the NAHT, the National Education Union (NEU), the NASUWT teaching union and the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) – have rejected the pay offer.