Delays to driving licences as DVLA staff announce 15 days of strikes

There will likely be delays to driving licences being processed and automobile tax reminders as DVLA workers have introduced 15 days of strike motion subsequent month.

Members of the PCS union have stated they’ll stroll out between 11 and 25 June.

Announcing the motion, a union spokesman stated: “The workers print materials for DVLA and other government departments, meaning no vehicle tax reminders will be printed, and there will be backlogs for driving licences and tachographs.

“When this personnel took strike motion in February, the print machines remained switched off.”

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Mark Serwotka, the union’s normal secretary, stated: “Managers struggled last time and they’ll struggle this time. We’re not afraid to turn up the pressure on ministers to achieve our reasonable demands – a fair pay rise to help our members through the cost-of-living crisis and beyond.”

The forms across the DVLA has struggled for the reason that pandemic.

MPs have heard that – since April 2020 – three million individuals have experienced delays with their driving licences.

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s system to course of purposes for licences is “slow, inefficient and in need of major improvement”, the cross-party Public Accounts Committee stated.

Members of the PCS union, which incorporates many civil servants and authorities departments, have been embarking on a sequence of business actions for the reason that finish of final yr.

This contains greater than 100,000 individuals hanging in March when Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his funds.

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The union is currently weighing up whether or not to name for extra nationwide motion, which might embody the Passport Office and Border Force, in addition to the DVLA.

The DVLA has been approached for remark.