Met Police (PCS) Strike Calendar

Met Police management presented a revised pay offer to staff following planned strike action by PCS members scheduled for January 15th.

The planned action aimed to replicate a previous successful industrial action that significantly impacted custody suites and 999 call handling units across London.

A meeting occurred involving Met Police and four unions, where the new pay offer was presented.

In response, PCS agreed to temporarily halt the planned strike action.

The union will now conduct consultative meetings with its membership, which will be followed by a ballot regarding the revised offer.

PCS represents over 6,800 civilian staff members within the Met Police, and this membership is currently increasing.

The union's leadership expressed that management has acknowledged the concerns of their members.

The union anticipates future constructive discussions with management following the member consultation process.

Upcoming strikes by Unite members working for the capital's Metropolitan Police have been suspended after talks resulted in an improved pay offer. Unite members at the Met working in MetCC call centre and in the force's fleet were due to walk out from 19 to 24 January in a dispute around pay. However, this has now been suspended to allow the Unite’s entire membership in the Met to vote on a new offer from the Met following talks between the force, Unite and the conciliatory service Acas. This consultative pay ballot will close on 28 January 2026.

There will be further disruption to London Metropolitan Police services later this month as workers will walk out for several days in an ongoing pay dispute. The 175 Unite members involved in the dispute work as call centre staff for Met CC and the force’s fleet as vehicle technicians and office staff servicing and dispatching vehicles such as police cars and motorbikes. These workers have been offered an inferior pay rise for 2025/26, despite Met police officers being given a 4.2 per cent pay rise in September 2025. All other constabularies across the UK have given both police officers and police staff the 4.2 per cent increase without detriment. The Met's Unite members have since rejected two provisional offers - either a below-RPI pay increase of 3.8 per cent or a 4.2 per cent offer, which is conditional on workers relinquishing their current terms and conditions.

Approximately 6,500 civilian staff at the Metropolitan Police plan to strike starting January 15th due to a dispute over the non-receipt of a London cost-of-living allowance.

Over 130 members at the London Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) will strike from January 12th to 15th over what is considered a real-terms pay reduction.

Prior industrial action by the union recently reversed a decision to close police station front counters.

Met Police civilian staff seek the same fully consolidated £1,250 London allowance afforded to their officer counterparts.

A previous strike day reportedly incurred significant staffing cover costs for the Metropolitan Police.

MOPAC members supported strike action with a large majority after rejecting two separate pay increase offers which were below inflation.

Both striking groups are scheduled to hold a demonstration on January 15th outside City Hall during the Mayor's Question Time session.

PCS members working for the Met Police are campaigning against the pulling of an agreed blended working framework and its replacement with an imposed policy which mandates at least 60% a week in an office workplace. PCS Met Police members in referencing and vetting took two weeks of strike action in February 2025, which caused backlogs for the employer, who had to use police officers to do the work. The current strike action is by 359 members working in Met Intelligence, who provide analytical reports of where crime is being reported so resources can be strategically deployed.

To deal with the impact of the strike this week, the Met has set up special 'gold units' and is using vast amounts of taxpayers' money to pay for police officers to work overtime to cover the work; this when the Met is already facing a £450 million debt/budget shortfall.

Civilian staff working for the Metropolitan Police will take two weeks of strike action after management threatened to dock their wages if they took action short of a strike.

PCS members had voted to take action short of a strike in the form of non-compliance with the new attendance policy on which the dispute is based. However management threatened to deduct a full day’s pay for any day on which a member of staff worked from home when they had been instructed to attend the office.