Fujitsu IT support workers who protect HMRC systems to go on strike

Industrial action over pay beginning on Wednesday could affect processing of self-assessment tax returns and is unrelated to Post Office scandal

Staff at Fujitsu, the technology firm at the centre of the Post Office Horizon scandal, are due to go on strike tomorrow, which their trade union said could disrupt HM Revenue and Customs at the busiest time of year for tax collection.

About 300 staff, most of whom work in IT support for HMRC at sites in Telford and Stratford, east London, will go on strike in protest at a pay offer that the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) said was 10 times less what Fujitsu is offering staff in Japan.