Hundreds of thousands of civil service workers in the PCS union are taking part in a consultative ballot about the next stage in their action against 100,000 job cuts, low pay and privatisation.
Over 250,000 members of the PCS civil service workers' union are taking part in a consultative ballot to decide the next step in their dispute over job cuts, low pay and privatisation.
Around 120 members of the PCS union at the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman in London were set to strike on Wednesday of this week over restructuring.
The national executive of the PCS union agreed last week to hold a consultative ballot of 270,000 members on whether to stage further strikes over attacks on services, privatisation, job cuts and pay.
Members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have overwhelmingly rejected a below-inflation pay offer.
Around 200 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union packed into a meeting at the Carer’s Allowance unit in Preston last week to discuss the government’s pay offer to workers in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
Around 100,000 workers in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have just received a below inflation pay offer. The PCS civil service workers’ union group executive in the DWP has rejected the offer and members are balloting over it until 10 September.
The PCS civil service workers’ union is in the middle of a huge consultation process, discussing the next stage of its campaign against 100,000 job losses, low pay and privatisation.
The appeal to trade unionists launched by Jane Loftus, president of the CWU postal workers’ union, and Sue Bond, vice president of the PCS civil service workers’ union, is winning wide support.
Mark Serwotka, the general secretary of the PCS civil service workers’ union, is appealing to his members to show solidarity with postal workers who are on strike this Friday.
