Border Force and Home Office staff prepare to go on strike

PCS union moves to add to ‘substantial strike fund’ for dispute

(PA)

Civil servants at the Home Office, Border Force and two other government departments will begin a month of industrial action from mid-December.

The PCS trade union said on Friday it had built up a “substantial strike fund” and was raising more cash to cover the dispute.

Workers, including those in the Department for Transport and Defra, will take action in a bid to stop their wages from plunging in real terms.