Revenue workers in strike over cuts

Up to 3,000 West Midlands revenue workers are expected to join a national strike over cuts they say will seriously damage efforts to clamp down on Jimmy Carr style tax avoidance schemes.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) offices in Brierley Hill, Wolverhampton and Birmingham are among those that will be hit.

More than 55,000 staff are due to walk out nationally on Monday over government plans to axe a further 10,000 jobs at HMRC offices.

Between 300 and 350 workers at the contact and enquiry centres at the HMRC offices at The Waterfront, Brierley Hill, are likely to strike, along with up to 200 at the offices in Deansgate, Wolverhampton, and 650 in Birmingham.

The action is in protest at the job cuts, which the unions say come on top of 30,000 more since 2005.