DVLA staff plan strike action in Beverley
WORKERS facing redundancy at Beverley's closure-threatened DVLA office are expected to join a national walk-out on Friday.
A two-hour strike from 3pm will involve 1,200 staff at the DVLA's 39 offices, including 16 at Beverley.
It will kick-start a month of rolling strikes among the Public and Commercial Services union's 8,000 Department for Transport (DfT) members.
The new wave of action across the DfT is designed to complement ongoing national industrial action being taken by the union against cuts to pensions, jobs and pay, which included a strike across the civil service, health and education sectors on May 10.
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As well as putting jobs at risk, the unions says the DVLA closures would wipe out the face-to-face services the offices provide to the public and motor traders.
PCS union general secretary Mark Serwotka said: "With unemployment high and our communities suffering as a result of the Government's cuts, ministers should be providing all the help they can to local economies that are crying out for support and investment.
"Instead they're ploughing on with entirely unnecessary and unpopular cuts to vital transport services. These strikes across the whole range of transport services form a major part of our ongoing fight against cuts to pensions, jobs and pay."
Comments
by smartguy1
Thursday, May 31 2012, 9:39PM
“It will still take as long to get served even though they are on strike. It use to amaze me when I went in there how scruffy the staff were. Not been in there for years thankfully but wonder if it has improved. Long queues, scruffy staff. How can you work in an office and be allowed to wear jeans.”
by chipspicenice
Wednesday, May 30 2012, 7:35PM
“HA HA!”
by opinionhated
Wednesday, May 30 2012, 7:12PM
“It's only VERY busy at car tax month end/new car reg time. It's a bit like petrol queues - pick your moment and the place is empty. Join the sheep and queue 'til dawn.
They don't do anything you can't do online so that's the end of them.
Progress they call it.”
by PurpleParrot
Wednesday, May 30 2012, 5:44PM
“Bloated, culling, redundancy, good grief, have you ever been to this place? It's generally so full, the queues go out into the foyer and to the street door. I'm all for trimming certain parts of the CS but I've never seen this place when it's not heaving; it does serve a very large area.”
by David_Nivea
Wednesday, May 30 2012, 12:52PM
“The bloated civil service needs culling. Online access to services will lead to more of this in future yet no-one deals with it, preferring the antiquated notion of strikes.
Anyway, I'm sure that £80K pa Mr. Serwotka is looking forward to his taxpayer-funded pension of around £65,000 a year when he retires.
Alright eh, Comrades?”