ONS Civil Servants Vote to Strike Over Mandatory Return to Office

Civil servants at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have voted to strike after being told to work in the office for at least 40 percent of the time. The Public and Commercial Services (PSC) Union said on Thursday that it had “challenged the need for the new policy ” with its sister unions, and that it had written to the employer to seek urgent talks to resolve the dispute. PSC union began balloting its 1,200 PSC members at the ONS in Newport, Titchfield, London, Darlington, Manchester, and Edinburgh three weeks ago. On Thursday, the union said almost three quarters of its members (73.45 percent) at the ONS had voted in favour of strike, and 83.84 percent supported action short of strike, on a 50 percent turn out....