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Outsourced cleaners strike at Foreign Office in East Kilbride
Members of the PCS union on the picket line outside the Passport Office in Glasgow, April 3, 2023

STRIKING cleaning and catering workers at the Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) in East Kilbride have announced a further wave of action as long-running pay and conditions dispute continues.

Demanding improvements to pay, sick pay and annual leave entitlements, the workers — employed by outsourcing giant OCS and represented by the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) — have already walked out this week, challenging Foreign Secretary David Lammy to intervene and make good on Labour’s promise to deliver “the biggest wave of in-sourcing of public services for a generation.”

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