1 September 2010
Civil service jobs under the cosh
Last week the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced the lost of almost 400 jobs from the Pension Service and Jobcentres. A PCS Member in the North East writes.
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18 August 2010
Jobs under threat at Ministry of Justice
Thousands of jobs at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) are under threat. The Con-Dem government has announced that £2 billion will be axed from the total MoJ budget of £9 billion. This is the equivalent of...
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18 August 2010
Workplace news in brief
London buses: The London Bus Campaign will stage a rally outside City Hall on Wednesday 15 September to oppose cuts in services, fare increases and reductions in contract prices, writes Andy Beadle.
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9 August 2010
Hastings CSA - Civil Service trade unionist sacked
PCS union branch secretary at CSA Hastings, Sam Buckley, has recently become the fifth branch officer to be sacked on trumped up charges since November 2007...
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PCS members striking against Labour's cuts, photo Paul Mattsson |
21 July 2010
PCS: a strategy to stop the cuts
The PCS civil servants union's national executive committee (NEC) has met to discuss how to respond to the Tory/Liberal coalition government's cuts and privatisation programme, writes John McInally national vice-president Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), personal capacity.
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21 July 2010
TUC refuses national demo
After weeks of vacillation the TUC has finally agreed NOT to call a national demo against the cuts this year, writes Bill Mullins, Socialist Party industrial organiser.
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21 July 2010
Stop the courts closures
The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) announcement of an 'estate rationalisation consultation,' threatening the closure of 103 magistrates' courts and 54 county courts, commencing on 23 June until 15 September, comes as no surprise to MOJ workers, writes Kevin Greenway, Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) national executive (NEC), personal capacity..
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Staff and students unite in protest at Sussex university, photo Socialist Students |
7 July 2010
Mass action can stop cuts
No apology. No concern. No regret. Sitting comfortably and calmly in his Newsnight chair Michael Gove, education minister, had no qualms about claiming that cuts to frontline services are "unavoidable". Gove merely blamed the previous government. Now young people leaving university cannot get a decent job...
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PCS members striking against Labour's cuts, photo Paul Mattsson |
7 July 2010
PCS will fight new attack on redundancy pay
On 6 July Tory minister Francis Maude announced new legislation to attack civil service workers' redundancy pay, writes John McInally.
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24 June 2010
Yeovil public meeting: Join the Fight Back against Job Cuts, Pay cuts, Public sector cuts
PUBLIC MEETING - Thursday 24 June 2010 - 7.30pm:
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