Covid: DVLA staff to vote on strike action after cases

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Staff at the DVLA headquarters, which has seen more than 500 Covid cases since September, are to be balloted for strike action.

The PCS union said the DVLA had been "forcing" staff to go into the Swansea office despite the infections.

It comes after MP Geraint Davies called for the UK government to reduce the number of workers at the centre.

Boris Johnson said at Prime Minister's Questions all staff who can work from home, were working from home.

The DVLA rejected claims it is "an unsafe place to work".

The ballot will be open from 18 February until 11 March, the union said.

Both Mr Davies and the PCS Union said 250 people were working on the site last March, but that number is now in the thousands.

It was announced last month that one member of staff had died with coronavirus.

PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: "It is a scandal that DVLA have insisted over 2,000 staff members come into work every day,
despite having the biggest outbreak of Covid in an office workplace within the UK."

He added management had shown a "cruel indifference" to staff's concerns.

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