Workers in Glasgow are among those at eight sites walking out in an escalation of the long-running row
Passport Office workers are beginning a five-week strike in the increasingly bitter civil service dispute over jobs, pay, pensions and conditions.
Picket lines will be mounted on Monday outside the offices in Glasgow, Durham, Liverpool, Southport, Peterborough, London, Belfast and Newport in Wales. He has accused ministers of treating its own employees differently to others in the public sector after negotiations were held with unions representing health workers and teachers. The union is stepping up strikes, with a nationwide walkout of more than 130,000 civil servants planned for April 28.
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