Civil service workers, like all public sector workers, face endemic low pay – contrary to government and media propaganda. A quarter of the PCS union’s members are on £15,000 a year or less.
The conference of the PCS civil service workers’ union in Brighton last week reaffirmed the union’s commitment to the battles over public sector pay and against the fascist British National Party (BNP) – see pages 2 and 5.
Up to 100 people marched through Hastings last Saturday to protest against the sacking of Eddie Fleming, a PCS civil service workers’ union rep, by management at the Hastings Child Support Agency office.
Over 80,000 civil service workers in the PCS union struck a blow against Gordon Brown’s public sector pay freeze when they took strike action on Monday and Tuesday of this week.