Tax office cleaners to stage strike in campaign for £10 an hour minimum wage

Tax office cleaners to stage strike in campaign for £10 an hour minimum wage Credit: PA.

Cleaners at HM Revenue and Customs offices are to stage a 48-hour strike in a dispute over pay and conditions.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) employed by ISS in Bootle and Liverpool will walk out on July 15 and 16.

The union is campaigning for £10 an hour minimum wage and equivalent terms and conditions for cleaners to other to HMRC staff.

PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: "Cleaners do a vital job keeping HMRC in Liverpool and Bootle functioning, yet they are not paid a decent wage or treated properly at work.

"All contracted out workers must be bought back in house, paid civil service wages and given civil service terms and conditions."