PCS Follow

Oliur Rahman, a Respect councillor in Tower Hamlets, east London, and a Left List candidate, was on strike this week with fellow civil service workers in the PCS union.

PCS members in Acas, the government conciliation service, have voted for action over pay.

Workers at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency took the first strike in their history on Thursday of last week over pay. The strike, by PCS and Prospect union members, severely affected services.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) pay strike next week is set to be the "strongest yet", say activists. The national strike by PCS union members is due for Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 March.

A successful strike by over 8,500 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in the Department for Transport on Friday of last week hit back at New Labour’s 2 percent public sector pay limit.

Victimised union rep Eddie Fleming was set to be re-elected as chair of the PCS civil service workers’ union Child Support Agency Hastings branch this week.

The PCS civil service workers’ union has called a two day strike of over 80,000 members in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in a long-running battle over pay.

Around 900 members of the PCS and Prospect civil service workers’ unions working for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) are balloting for strike action in a dispute over pay.

The coordinated strike action by over 150,000 workers in the PCS civil service workers’ union which was planned for Thursday of this week has been suspended following the offer of talks.

Along with tens of thousands of civil service workers in the PCS union I am gearing up for a major day of strike action on Thursday of next week.

Thursday 31 January is set to be a major day of action with potentially over 150,000 civil service workers in the PCS union set to take action against low pay and job cuts.

PCS ballot for strike over redundancies Over 70,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in Revenue and Customs are balloting for a one day strike on 31 January over management’s failure to give a guarantee over redundancies.