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Interserve headquarters in Twyford near Reading in Berkshire
AGENCY workers employed by Interserve for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) will strike from May Day against the firm’s refusal to negotiate on job cuts, contract changes and sick pay.
Cleaners, messengers, print workers and porters who are members of the PCS union are set to strike on May 1 and 2.
They say that their contracts are unclear, and also claim that they have not been paid back pay from pay increases that they were owed from August 2018.
JOHN LANG recalls how Murdoch used scabbing electricians and even devised a fake newspaper to force a confrontation with printers – then sacked them all
In the final part of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explains how in 2018, after years spent rebuilding the PCS into a leading force against austerity, a damaging rupture emerged from within the union’s own left wing
