UNION leaders drove a “battle bus” through the constituency of a Government minister yesterday as part of a campaign against cuts in civil servants’ redundancy pay which will lead to a strike during next week’s Budget.

More than 200,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union will walk out next Wednesday – the first ever strike on Budget Day.

Union leaders took to the streets of Cabinet Office minister Tessa Jowell’s Dulwich constituency in south-east London as part of the build-up to next week’s strike.

Ms Jowell has been leading the Government’s case over cuts to redundancy pay, which the union maintains will cost civil servants tens of thousands of pounds.

The union has already held a 48-hour strike and is planning further industrial, political and legal action unless the dispute is settled.

Mark Serwotka, the union’s general secretary, said: “PCS members will not stand by and allow the Government to make it easier and cheaper for whoever forms the next government to cut civil and public servants.”

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