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CIVIL servants will be balloted for strike action after their union PCS confirmed yesterday that ministers are using the spending review from 2015 to budget for a 1 per cent pay rise.
PCS said that the government has gone back on its promise to end low pay in its own departments.
Ministers have told union negotiators that any pay rises would have to come from individual departmental savings and cuts.
The 2025 Budget shores up the PM’s political position with headline-grabbing welfare U-turns, but with no improvements on offer to declining public services or living standards, writes MICHAEL BURKE
In part IV of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY tells how austerity minister Francis Maude’s attempt to destroy the PCS Civil Service union totally backfired
Unions slam use of review bodies and long-term decline in value of wages
