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Civil service workers in the PCS union met in central London on Thursday of last week to discuss their current ballot against job cuts. Chancellor Gordon Brown wants to slash 104,000 jobs across the civil service.

Some 9,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in the department for work and pensions (DWP) are set to be balloted from Monday 5 September to take strike action over job cuts.

Civil service workers in the PCS union are facing a crucial few months in their battle for jobs and pensions.

Hundreds of civil service workers in the Prospect and PCS unions at English Heritage struck on Tuesday against an insulting pay offer.

The PCS civil service workers’ union held a highly successful conference in Brighton last week.

Members of the PCS civil service workers’ union were meeting at our annual conference in Brighton this week.

A left ‘no’ to Europe The position trade unionists should take on the EU constitution will be a live debate at next week’s annual delegate conference of the PCS civil service workers’ union.

Civil service workers in the PCS union in London are moving towards further action against job losses. Chancellor Gordon Brown wants to slash 104,000 jobs across the civil service.

Civil service workers in the Prospect and PCS unions at the National Museum of Science and Industry struck on Wednesday of last week. The strike is over pay and underfunding. Their action closed the Science Museum in London and disrupted the National Railway Museum in York and the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford.

Some 1.25 million union members could strike on 23 March. The civil service workers’ PCS union and Unison local government members are balloting for discontinuous action — which would allow a series of strikes — so they could join education unions for futher strikes in April without reballoting

A MEETING of PCS civil service workers’ union reps in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) last week voted in favour of a deal in our pay dispute. This will now be put to the membership, with the union recommending acceptance. The pay offer is over 4 percent for each year of the deal and is weighted towards the lowest paid. But there are still some major problems and PCS members should reject the deal. The DWP will still have more people on poverty pay than many departments. The main problem is that there will still be an appraisal system based on quotas.

ACTIVISTS IN the PCS civil service workers union in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were set to meet on Friday of this week to discuss a new pay offer in our long running dispute. Some 90,000 workers struck for a total of six days last year against poverty pay and a discriminatory appraisal system.