Labour Caves in to Civil Service Union With Huge Foreign Office Pay Rise – Guido Fawkes

Labour Caves in to Civil Service Union With Huge Foreign Office Pay Rise

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It’s yet another win for the unions in Labour’s Britain. After months of strike action stretching from October to February, Foreign Office security staff have walked away with a whopping 13% pay rise. More than double the average pay rise for the private sector last year of 5.6%…

Civil service union PCS had pressed pause on strike action by outsourced security staff at OCS, ISS and G4S across key departments last month – including the Cabinet Office, No10, FCDO, DBT, and DSIT – as “intensive talks” kicked off. Foreign Office G4S staff managed to bag a bumper pay rise…

GMB’s regional organiser Andre Marques was quick to gloat: “This is a great win for security guards on the FCDO contract.” Some staff were apparently on minimum wage before the rise, so naturally the unions spun it as a matter of “fairness and dignity.” Now with one victory under their belts, the unions will no doubt continue to push for more across the other departments. Cutting back blob spend unsurprisingly proving fruitless when the unions have Labour firmly over a barrel…