PCS Follow

No doubt readers of Socialist Review are aware of the PCS dispute with the civil service and associated employers with the latest national strike which took place on 1 May.

The threat of strike action by the PCS civil service workers’ union in Milton Keynes has won a victory against job cuts.

The ballot opens this week for the elections to the national executive of the PCS civil service workers’ union.

The PCS civil service workers’ union has called a national strike of over 250,000 members in its fight against 104,000 job cuts, low pay and privatisation.

Chancellor Gordon Brown has declared war on the pay of every public sector worker. That’s why 20,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union were set to strike on Friday of this week.

Thousands of PCS members are set to strike on Friday of next week as the next stage of their union’s campaign.

Tuesday 1 May is set to see a major strike in defence of public services as the PCS civil service workers’ union steps up its action against job cuts, low pay and privatisation.

Members of the PCS union working for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency have voted by over 80 percent to reject management’s 2006 pay offer.

Thousands of members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in the Ministry of Defence and the Identity and Passport Service are currently taking part in a consultative ballot to strike on Friday 30 March over pay.

Activists in the PCS civil service workers’ union are organising to make Tuesday 1 May the next national strike in their dispute over 104,000 job cuts, pay and privatisation.

Organising For Fighting Unions (OFFU) will hold a major rally in London on 1 May – the same day that a quarter of a million civil service workers in the PCS union are likely to strike.

The national executive of the PCS civil service workers’ union agreed a proposed calendar of events last week to take forward the fight over job cuts and pay.