The Socialist 31 January 2008

End this market madness

No more school closures!

Teachers' union calls strike ballot on pay

Anti-war protests save teachers

Labour councillors anger parents and tenants

New Labour attacking our vital benefits

Incapacity benefit cuts hit the sick

Hain resigns but stink of sleaze remains

Jail break from Gaza

Suharto: "One of the 20th century's biggest killers and greatest thieves"

US elections: The Barak Obama mirage

NHS in crisis

Debt and housing slowdown threaten Britain's time bomb economy

Student elections: Not just a 'beauty contest'!

College students seek socialist ideas

Reality of London students' debt trap

More foo than fight as rockers agree to cross picket line

How Hitler came to power

Global warming, climate change and human activities - Part 2

Burslem postal workers march back to work

Giving the real facts on Burslem strike

National Shop Stewards Network meetings

Police march for pay

PCS suspends strikes

Previous issues, etc




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PCS suspends strikes

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) strike for 31 January has been suspended as management have been forced into talks. That would have been our 19th day of strike action in less than five years.

Jane Aitchison, PCS DWP President, personal capacity

While the revenue and customs (HMRC) dispute is over jobs, our current dispute is over an imposed three-year below-inflation pay offer. We took two days of strike action on 6 and 7 December, which were very well supported.

Getting management into talks over this is no mean feat. We have delivered strike action and then secured talks over the government's policy of public-sector pay restraint.

The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) in DWP represents 120,000 staff.

The HMRC strike was called off after the union secured an agreement for a moratorium on office closures and job cuts during detailed talks with management.

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