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WORKERS at the DVLA will launch a five-day strike today in the latest phase of industrial action by civil servants in a dispute over pay, pensions and jobs.
Around 600 members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) based in Swansea and Birmingham, who assess people’s ability to drive before granting them a licence, will take the action that forms part of union’s national campaign after 100,000 civil servants in 124 government departments voted for action.
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: “This latest phase of our targeted and sustained strike action comes as the government launches another attack on working people by introducing anti-union legislation.
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