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Boot out civil service cuts MEMBERS OF the PCS civil service workers’ union in Merseyside protested outside Sefton council’s meeting on Thursday of last week demanding that they act to stop job losses. Gordon Brown’s plans to axe 104,000 civil service jobs will hit 4,000 workers across Merseyside.

THE NEXT 12 months will be very important for the PCS civil service workers’ union. The government is planning to push through 104,000 job cuts in the civil service and attack workers’ pensions.

A 300-strong demonstration against the loss of 104,000 civil service jobs took place in Dunfermline, Gordon Brown’s constituency, last Saturday. The protest was organised by the PCS civil service workers’ union.

OVER 100 PCS civil service workers’ union activists attended the conference of the Left Unity group last Saturday in Manchester.

CIVIL SERVICE workers in the PCS union want to step up the action in their dispute over 104,000 job cuts, and attacks on pensions and sick pay.

THE RECENT highly successful strike by 265,000 members of the PCS union against cuts to jobs, sick pay and pensions shocked the government.

THE STRIKE by hundreds of thousands of civil service workers in the PCS union on 5 November against job cuts and attacks on pensions and sick pay was incredibly successful. Far more people struck than the government anticipated.

Workers IN the PCS civil service workers’ union at the British Library in London and Boston Spa have reached the end of their tether.

The battle for the future of the civil service has begun.

MANAGEMENT IN the Department for Work and Pensions were recently shocked by a five to one vote for indefinite strike at the Stratford social security office in east London.

THE BALLOT of 290,000 civil service workers in the PCS union is set to end on Friday of this week.

A CAMPAIGN in defence of leading PCS civil service workers’ union activist Charlie McDonald has forced bosses to back off.