East Kilbride tax workers prepare for 18-day strike over pay

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Tax workers at HMRC East Kilbride are sending out a strong message by ramping up strike action over pay and pensions.Members of the PCS union are set to begin 18 days of walkouts this week - set to finish on June 2.The sanction follows industrial action in March which saw PCS members across the UK picketing in their tens of thousands in the union's biggest strike for years.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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At HMRC East Kilbride, phone lines were inaccessible, webchat was unavailable, and tax was not being collected. Now, in what the union says is "an escalation of our targeted strike action," workers hope to send a powerful message to the government that they have had enough of being poorly treated on pay, pensions and job security.Joined by colleagues in Benton Park View, Newcastle, EK tax workers are fighting as part of the national campaign over pay, pensions, job security and redundancy terms which began in November last year.All PCS members working in personal taxation operations on employer service in East Kilbride and Benton Park View are to strike from May 10-12, May 15-19, May 22-26, May 29-31 May and on June 1 and 2.The action follows a five-week strike by passport workers that