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PCS conference Delegates to the PCS civil service workers’ union conference this week in Brighton were to debate the need to resist the coming wave of public spending cuts.

The elections to the PCS national executive saw minor gains for the right wing 4themembers group.

Civil service workers were celebrating on Monday after their PCS union won a crucial legal victory against the government’s plans to slash their redundancy payments.

The PCS civil service workers’ union was still awaiting the result of its judicial review into the government’s attacks on redundancy payments.

Around 100 civil service workers lobbied the High Court in London last week before the PCS union’s judicial review against attacks on their redundancy payments.

Ballot papers for election to the PCS national executive went out last week.

A hundred members of the PCS civil service workers’ union voted unanimously for a strike ballot at lunchtime meetings in Chorlton, Manchester, on Friday of last week.

The PCS civil service workers’ union was continuing its campaign to defend the redundancy compensation payments scheme at a judicial review this week.

A national strike by 200,000 government workers hit hard on budget day last Wednesday.

Campaigning by the PCS union in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has stopped the transfer of three benefit delivery centres into the contact centre directorate.

Land Registry workers in the PCS civil service workers’ union are balloting on a proposed agreement over jobs and office closures.