ABOUT 30,000 civil servants in the North-East are to take part in a national one-day strike on Friday, November 5.
Picket lines will be set up across the region and will include staff at the Department for Education and Skills, at Mowden Hall, Darlington and the Department of Work and Pensions, Land Registry and Crown Prosecution Service, in Durham City.
It has been organised by Britain's largest civil service union, the Public and Commercial Services Union, over Government plans to reform their work.
They are protesting over the "disgraceful" cuts of more than 100,000 jobs nationally.
Union members had previously voted by 72,780 to 40,142 to take strike action in a turnout of 42 per cent.
Officials said workers not only faced losing their jobs but changes to their terms and conditions, sick absence arrangements and the prospect of working longer to receive their pension.
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