The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) of the U.K. will have a strike vote in the coming weeks with regards to the British government’s 1% pay raise cap on public sector wages which was put in place in 2010. Pressure from civil servants to lift the limit on wage increases has steadily risen and it is reported from sources at Downing Street that Prime Minister Theresa May is working on plans to discard this limit. The PCS stated that public sector workers demand at least a 5% raise in wages as the current limit prevents civil servants’ wages from even keeping up with consumer price inflation. Should the nearly 200,000 polled members of the PCS vote to strike, it would be the union’s first nationwide strike in three years.
See "British civil servants' union calls nationwide strike ballot", David Milliken, Reuters, September 6, 2017