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11 July 2008

Reply to the SWP attacks on the PCS leadership in the Department for Work and Pensions

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9 July 2008

DWP strikes bring talks

Following five days of industrial action in just over six months taken by Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) members in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), management have finally come back to the negotiating table. Katrine Williams, DWP group executive member, writes in a personal capacity.

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2 July 2008

Fight Labour's welfare privatisation

JAMES PURNELL, secretary of state for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), has announced that he intends to let private sector companies cherry pick whatever DWP services they wanted to provide, writes Dave Reid.

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25 April 2008

Reports of the 24 April strikes

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23 April 2008

Why DWP workers are striking

I'M ON strike on 24 April with hundreds of thousands of other workers across the public sector, writes By a DWP worker.

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16 April 2008

'We're striking against low pay'

Birmingham council workers strike on 5 February 2008, photo S O Neill

Birmingham council workers strike on 5 February 2008. PCS and teachers will join them on 24 April. Photo S O'Neill


On 24 April almost half a million public-sector workers will strike a blow against the government's policy of public-sector pay restraint, writes Jane Aitchison, civil service union PCS, Department for Work and Pensions group president, personal capacity.

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16 April 2008

Editorial: 24 April strikes: step forward in pay battle

THE NATIONAL Union of Teachers (NUT) was the first public-sector union to decide to take strike action on Thursday 24 April over the government's pay limit policy, and now nearly 400,000 public-sector workers are due to strike...

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19 March 2008

Anger and strength in the DWP workplaces

DWP members strike on 17 - 18 march 2008

DWP members strike on 17 - 18 march 2008

ON 17 and 18 March, members of the civil service union PCS in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were on strike for the second time against the imposition of a three year pay offer. Regional reports.

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12 March 2008

Fight for a living wage!

DWP staff on strike 17-18 March: Civil service union PCS members in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are livid that management have refused to engage in pay talks, writes Katrine Williams, PCS DWP Wales secretary, personal capacity.

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4 March 2008

Unite for a living wage

PCS on strike 1 May 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

PCS on strike 1 May 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

No pay freeze: The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) has organised a national lobby of parliament on 11 March, bringing together all the PCS groups in dispute over pay and to coordinate political pressure against the public-sector, writes Katrine Williams, PCS DWP Wales secretary, personal capacity

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