The PCS union has announced two weeks of strike action in protest at plans to close a Department for Work and Pensions office in Lincoln.
The union said 80 members of staff are at serious risk of redundancy as a result of the department’s plan to close the Lincoln City Hall Service and Support Centre in May 2026.
PCS members who are based at the centre will take strike action from 4 November to 17 November, following a ballot in which they voted by 86% for strike action on a turnout of 62%.
According to the union, the majority of staff are low-paid AOs with very little prospect of being able to relocate into other DWP or civil service jobs.
The union also said it believes that the decision to close the site “may be the tip of the office-closure iceberg in DWP, with thousands of members working in other so-called 'transitional sites' facing a similar prospect to their colleagues in Lincoln”.
PCS general secretary Fran Heathcote said: “After giving decades of dedicated service to the DWP, many of our members in the Lincoln Service Centre are now being cast aside with little remorse.
"Through no fault of their own, they face a desperate search for a good job in the Lincoln area.
“Yet they will fight this callous decision with all they have to show the DWP that it must maintain a service centre presence in Lincoln for the benefit of both the community and the committed local workforce."
A DWP spokesperson said: "The closure of Lincoln City Hall Service and Support Centre will have no impact on Lincoln Jobcentre, which remains fully operational, nor on the vital services we deliver to customers.
“We continue to engage with trade union representatives to support colleagues, with redeployment opportunities wherever possible.”