""While management promotes the idea of 'One Met', police staff are consistently treated as second-class on pay, promotion and job security. "Officers receive the allowance and free travel while many of our dedicated members who support them struggle to make ends meet in one of the most expensive cities in the world. "It's time to transform 'One Met' from empty rhetoric into reality, creating a workplace that guarantees fairness, equality and respect for all.""
"PA Media Metropolitan Police staff are to be balloted for strike action in a dispute over pay, with a union claiming that civilian workers in the Met are treated as "second-class citizens". The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union said about 6,500 of its members will vote in the coming weeks on whether to launch a campaign of industrial action."
About 6,500 PCS union members who work as civilian staff in the Metropolitan Police will vote on whether to take industrial action over pay. The union says members have been refused a 1,250 London allowance that is paid to police officers and describes the allowance as a symbol of inequality. PCS general secretary Fran Heathcote says police staff face disadvantages in pay, promotion and job security while officers receive the allowance and free travel. The union highlights that many civilian staff struggle with living costs in London and calls for 'One Met' to deliver fairness, equality and respect. The Met Police has been approached for comment.
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