Hundreds of thousands of civil servants strike over pay-offs

By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent Published: 6:20PM GMT twenty-five February 2010

Members of the Public and Commercial Services kinship will travel out for 48 hours from Mar 8.

The kinship pronounced the distinguished workers additionally embody Jobcentre staff, coastguards, courts staff and pushing exam examiners.

Two-thirds of polite servants criticize the approach Whitehall managers run Government Thousands of comparison polite servants, doctors and judges have compensate rises capped at 1.5pc Civil servants keep �90m in grant overpayments Senior officials paid �40,000 housing stipend Public zone pensions blunder: Q&A Credit break forces family groups to spin of Yuletide lights

Ministers warned that electorate will have small magnetism for the kinship for rejecting a understanding that has been supposed by alternative polite use unions.

The brawl is over plans to cut excess payouts for prolonged portion polite servants in their 50s from a limit of 6 years income to only dual years salary.

The shift is foresee to save taxpayers �500 million over 3 years.

Ministers secretly contend the stream intrigue was excessively generous, enlivening polite servants to "sit on their hands and wait for for the kitty payday" when they retire.

In talks over the changes, the Cabinet Office had offering to pledge �50,000 for all low-paid officials who were done redundant.

That was supposed by five alternative open zone unions representing 100,000 polite servants but deserted by the PCS.

Mark Serwotka, the PCS ubiquitous cabinet member pronounced some-more strikes will follow unless ministers behind down.

He said: "These cuts, that will see constant polite and open servants lose tens of thousands of pounds if they are forced out of a job, are some-more about wanton politicking than creation savings.

"With polite and open use jobs increasingly at risk, this is a asocial try to cut jobs on the poor that will in conclusion repairs the services we all rely on. The supervision needs to recognize the abyss of annoy that has been demonstrated by this list outcome and find the domestic will to come to conditions a allotment that avoids a postulated debate of industrial action."

Tessa Jowell, apportion for the Cabinet Office, said: "The open will find it formidable to assimilate the PCS stability to criticism on their own opposite a package that brings the Civil Service in to line with the rest of the open zone and still offers some-more inexhaustible conditions than most of the in isolation sector.

She combined that all Government departments have plans in place to "minimise any disruption" to members of the open caused by the strike.