Last chance to vote in MOPAC strike ballot

Members working for the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime were handed a derisory 1.5% pay offer for 2025-2026 – an offer MOPAC grudgingly increased to 2% after sustained pressure from PCS’s MOPAC branch.

This was despite MOPAC admitting it had already budgeted for a 2% pay rise, making its opening offer not just inadequate but deliberately unfair.

With the Cabinet Office setting the civil service pay remit at 3.25% for 2025 and inflation running at 3.6%, the 2% award imposed in October this year is nothing short of a real-terms pay cut.

Making sacrifices

MOPAC members are voting yes to strike action because:

‘Working and living in London as a single parent means I have to juggle raising childcare costs and food prices alongside increases in energy and water bills. Many people think the option to work from home and for the Mayor of London means I am not impacted; but the reality is that I have to avoid putting the heating on in the house this winter. Warming my home has to be sacrificed to ensure I can afford the increased cost of childcare and food prices. A better pay offer would mean I can afford to heat my home this winter.’

Working under blankets

“This winter I will see more of my colleagues working under blankets and in outdoor coats whilst working from home. Many cannot afford the increase in energy prices. It’s hard to focus on work when you’re cold.”

Vote today

On 1 December, MOPAC members will learn whether they’ve reached the 50% threshold to take strike action - an important step in the fight to push for stronger and fairer pay for 2025.

If you haven’t already voted, make sure you post your ballot paper back today.