PCS Follow

The group executive committee which runs the civil service workers’ PCS union in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) met last week in Leeds to discuss the fight against job cuts.

The PCS civil service workers’ union conference in Brighton saw delegates vote to confront New Labour over job losses and national pay.

PCS and Prospect union members at the Ordnance Survey (OS) mapmakers are being balloted on industrial action as frustration mounts at the lack of a fair pay deal which is already ten months late.

Thousands of members of the PCS and Prospect civil service workers’ union in the Office for National Statistics (ONS) are balloting for strike action over job cuts and relocations.

Left unity members won the recent PCS union group executive elections in the Department for Work and Pensions. Socialist Worker supporter Dave Owens was elected.

Left candidates in the PCS civil service workers’ union won all but one of the national executive seats in the union’s recent elections.

A year long campaign for union recognition at the National Maritime Museum in south east London has ended in a stunning victory for its 500 members of staff. Staff have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the PCS and Prospect unions being recognised.

Around 85,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union struck on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) workers were taking action against 40,000 job losses that will devastate the vital services they provide. We print reports from around the picket lines

Over 2,000 PCS civil service workers’ union members struck on Friday of last week in the Learning and Skills Council, including at the Coventry headquarters. They were striking over plans to slash 1,120 jobs and management’s refusal to offer a no compulsory redundancy guarantee. The one-day strike saw a number of offices close across England and others operate on skeleton staff.

The elections for the national executive of the PCS union have begun. Socialist Worker is urging its supporters and readers to campaign and vote for the Democracy Alliance slate.

Some 950 PCS members working for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in the large processing centre at Lothians in Scotland struck on Thursday of last week over the deskilling of work.

Civil service workers in the PCS union working for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are continuing their fight against massive job cuts.