Emergency services / Coastguard staff to strike
SHETLAND coastguard staff who are members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) are going on strike today (Wednesday).
They are taking part in the Trade Union National Day of Action, coinciding with the TUC’s ‘Protect the right to strike’ and showing their solidarity with around 100,000 colleagues across the civil service, along with teachers, university staff, bus and railway workers and others.
As the cost-of-living crisis worsens, with inflation at nearly 11 per cent, the PCS, representing staff in the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) have called this day of action in support of the campaign for a “fair wage increase of ten per cent pay rise, pensions justice, job security and no cuts in redundancy terms”.
PCS members will be holding a workplace strike and picket at the Lerwick coastguard base.
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