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Join me on the picket lines, says kitchen assistant Wendy Harris

Thousands of tax workers in the PCS union are walking out this week in a series of 24 hour regional strikes. Workers in the London, South East and South West regions walked out this morning, Wednesday.

Some 50,000 tax workers at HMRC offices around Britain began a week of rolling strikes on Monday of this week.

One of the biggest strikes for decades is set for Thursday 10 July.

Up to 20,000 people marched against austerity in central London today, Saturday, in a loud and lively protest called by the People's Assembly.

The chaos in Passport Offices is deepening as a backlog of hundreds of thousands of documents pile up due to job cuts.

Local government workers are up for a fight at the Unison union's conference, and civil service workers are protesting outside their workplaces

The PCS civil service workers’ union was set to begin consulting its 250,000 members on Thursday of this week for a mandate to join the 10 July strike.

Campaigners from across Britain met in Manchester last Saturday to organise against Tory attacks on benefits. More than 80 people attended the national meeting of the Anti Bedroom Tax and Benefit Justice Federation.

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Hundreds of workers in Shared Services and the Ministry of Justice are being balloted over job losses, office closures and offshoring.

Shop workers at the British Museum in London struck for two hours last Saturday. It was the second two-hour strike for the PCS union members, who are fighting for the London Living Wage.