If you are planning on having a passport interview or getting an application today or for the next 3 days – bad luck, the passport workers are on strike. Around 3000 of them are on strike across 7 passport offices and 68 interview offices. The closure is due to industrial action over government plans to cap public sector pay and close offices.
Public and Commercial Services Union general secretary Mark Serwotka said: "It is disgraceful that long serving passport staff should receive no pay rise for the fifth year in a row and that efficient hardworking staff should be rewarded with a pay cut in real terms. With food, fuel and housing costs soaring, the government's policy of below inflation pay has further incensed the workforce uncertain about their future but passionate about the service they provide."
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