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The national delegate conference of Left Unity met in Gateshead last Saturday. It is the socialist grouping which has a majority on most of the leading committees in the civil service workers’ PCS union.

Why is the PCS union planning to ballot over 280,000 members for strikes in the new year?

Over 280,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union are gearing up for a major battle in the new year over job cuts, pay restraint and privatisation.

Members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have voted by nine to one (18,758 to 2,081) to accept management’s offer to end our jobs, rights and services campaign.

Members of the PCS civil service workers’ union at the National Gallery in central London struck on Wednesday of last week.

A strike by some 2,500 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union on Friday of last week severely disrupted the Identity and Passport Service (IPS).

Around 100 trade unionists from the Unison, Amicus, PCS, UCU, NUT, T&G and GMB unions demonstrated outside the meeting room of Newcastle Trusts headquarters on Wednesday of last week. They were protesting at the summary suspension of NHS activist Yunus Bakhsh.

Over 90,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union were set to vote on a deal to end their long-running dispute over job cuts, rights and services from Wednesday of this week.

Workers took part in unofficial walkouts in Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Norwich on Wednesday of last week after a PCS civil service workers’ union activist was demoted.

The ballot of PCS civil service workers’ union members in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in response to management’s offer in our campaign against job cuts has been delayed yet again.

Mark Serwotka, the general secretary of the PCS civil service workers’ union, said in the debate on public services, "While the government wants to cut a 100,000 civil servants’ jobs it is spending £32.2 billion on consultants.

Over 1,500 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) struck for the second time on Monday over job cuts.