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Over 100 members of Left Unity, the broad left within the PCS civil service workers’ union, met in Manchester last Saturday for its annual conference.

PCS civil service workers’ union members have voted overwhelmingly to create a political fund. Some 80 percent of those voting were in favour.

Over 7,800 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in magistrate’s courts across England and Wales are balloting on strikes over pay.

The civil service workers’ PCS union is among those sending a national delegation to the conference.

Socialist Worker supporters in the PCS civil service workers’ union met last Saturday to discuss the framework of the proposed pensions deal agreed between the TUC and the New Labour government.

Telford rally Around 400 trade unionists packed into a lunchtime rally in Telford last week to protest against the threat to 1,400 local civil service jobs.

Workers in the PCS union in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) were to strike on Friday this week over pay disparities in the department.

Women PCS civil service workers’ union members at a job centre in Oxford recently protested against threats to cuts nursery subsidies.

The battle for jobs in the civil service is set to move on to a new stage as PCS union leaders in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) look likely to ballot their members for a national strike.

PCS Union members in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) have voted for strike action, and for action short of a strike, in a ballot over pay.

Members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in London last week voted overwhelmingly to strike over job cuts.

Around 160 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union struck aginst job cuts in Nottingham on Monday. The workers at the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) headquarters are angry about plans to cut 50 posts.