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Scottish revenue and customs staff strike again
SCOTS working for HM Revenue and Customs returned to the picket lines again yesterday over further cuts at the beleaguered agency.
The PCS members’ walkout union comprised part of rolling strike action in a bid to head off Con-Dem cuts that would see the department’s workforce more than halved in the space of a decade.
PM David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne have repeatedly promised to crack down on “aggressive” tax avoidance and shore up Britain’s public-sector budget.
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