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    Need a new passport?

    HMPO going on strike for 5 weeks. If you need a passport, get an appointment in ASAP.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/travel...-b2302753.html

    Passport Office workers are to strike for five weeks in an escalation of a dispute over jobs, pay and conditions.

    More than 1,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union working in Passport Offices in England, Scotland and Wales will take part in the action from April 3 to May 5.

    Those working in Durham, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Newport, Peterborough and Southport will walk out from April 3 to May 5 while those in Belfast will strike from April 7 to May 5.

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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    HMPO going on strike for 5 weeks. If you need a passport, get an appointment in ASAP.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/travel...-b2302753.html

    Passport Office workers are to strike for five weeks in an escalation of a dispute over jobs, pay and conditions.

    More than 1,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union working in Passport Offices in England, Scotland and Wales will take part in the action from April 3 to May 5.

    Those working in Durham, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Newport, Peterborough and Southport will walk out from April 3 to May 5 while those in Belfast will strike from April 7 to May 5.
    We must be paying them too much if they can afford to have 5 weeks unpaid leave...
    Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.

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      #3
      Originally posted by Zigenare View Post

      We must be paying them too much if they can afford to have 5 weeks unpaid leave...
      The civil service instead of giving over time give people time off in lieu.

      So as they don't have enough staff in the Passport Office and people have worked over time if they all take their time off at the same time then....
      "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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        #4
        Part of the point of paying Union fees is that they pay you when there's a strike. Sounds like the Union has cash to burn if they're not using TOIL

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          #5
          Originally posted by Zigenare View Post

          We must be paying them too much if they can afford to have 5 weeks unpaid leave...
          We're not paying them.
          Originally posted by MaryPoppins
          I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
          Originally posted by vetran
          Urine is quite nourishing

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            #6
            Originally posted by d000hg View Post

            We're not paying them.
            Not directly but as The Home Office is funded by HM Treasury I would venture that the Civil Servants in the Passport Office who turn up and draw a salary are indeed paid by those of us that are subject to taxation within the UK.


            Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.

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