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THOUSANDS of tax office workers returned to the picket lines yesterday amid widespread anger at further job cuts for the beleaguered agency.
About 15,000 trade unionists working for Revenue and Customs in Scotland and the north-east began a rolling strike action yesterday in a bid to head off Con-Dem cuts that would see the department’s workforce more than halved in a decade.
The Coalition has enraged public-sector unions and social-justice campaigners by ravaging HMRC with swingeing job cuts despite the tough talk on tax enforcement.
It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK
