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PCS will immediately begin working towards holding a national statutory ballot on industrial action this autumn over members’ pay, pensions and redundancy terms in the UK civil service and related public sector areas.  

PCS delegates will be in Brighton next week for our annual delegate conference, but if you are a member and can’t be there in person, you can log into PCS Digital and watch a live stream of the debates.

Serious concerns about the staffing cuts and redundancies at the British Council have been raised with foreign secretary Liz Truss by a cross-party group of parliamentarians.

British Council employees across the world took strike action yesterday (24) and have begun their second and last day of action today. 

PCS members at the British Council are this week taking strike action over plans to make more than 200 workers redundant.