Civil service workers announces new strike dates

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Civil servants have threatened to take further industrial action after union leaders branded the government's latest pay offer "insulting".

Dave Penman, the general secretary of the FDA union, which also represents employees of the civil service, says he begged the government to not go ahead with its recommendation and it has "chosen a path that will inevitably lead to a deepening of an already damaging conflict".

Civil service workers will walk out on 10 May and 7 June after the government announced a 4.5% pay rise, with scope for an extra 0.5% "targeted at lower pay bands" if they deemed it necessary..

For the latest on UK strikes and more:
https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-nursing-union-to-reveal-pay-deal-ballot-result-as-junior-doctors-strike-enters-final-day-12593360

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