The Daily Mirror covered an interesting article about Francis Maude claiming £20k expenses for a second home. The full article can be viewed here.

PCS urges all DWP staff to go to RM and check how their pay has been affected by the Government pay and pensions policy over the past 6 years since the economic crash. The two example below show clearly how increased pension contributions and the pay freeze have left us worse off as inflation soars … Continue reading Check how little your pay has gone up in the last 6 years

The Branch has set up a Hardship fund to support members who have encountered financial hardship as a result of taking strike action.The term "financial hardship" means for example that you need to pay for a prescription but do no longer have the funds to buy it.If you wish to make a claim to the … Continue reading Important Notice regarding the Branch Hardship Fund

In May PCS members in Garston Contact Centre in the DWP Liverpool Branch voted by a majority of five and a half to one in favour of strike action to fight the closure of the office. 95% of PCS members at Garston Contact Centre supported two 1 day strikes on 16 May and 23 June … Continue reading Garston Contact Centre members take 5 days strike action to oppose office closure

Shared Services Connect Limited (SSCL) PCS members have voted by 150 to 9 in favour of accepting the 2.3% consolidated pay increase offer from SSCL. The increase will be paid at the end of October and backdated to 1 July 2014. Thank you to all of the members who voted. Further talks will be held between SSCL … Continue reading SSCL PCS members vote YES to 2.3% pay increase

I say I say I say, when is Voluntary Participation Industrial or Political Action?An all Members Briefing asked members to not participate in the DWP People Survey. Senior DWP management have protested that distributing the briefing by Departmental email was a breach of the Employee Relations Framework.The ERF forbids Industrial or Political materials to be … Continue reading Don’t participate in the 2014 People Survey

Dear Colleagues (and potential colleagues),The purpose of this post is to inform members of the PCS strike action across the Civil Service on the 15th of October 2014. The action will be coordinated with unions representing workers in the health service which have announced action on Monday, 13th October, and with unions in local government which … Continue reading

The DWP is closing onsite nurseries and ending a childcare subsidy for its workers.This move flies in the face of the family friendly policies the government claims to believe in and forces many parents to make difficult decisions about whether they can even afford to continue working.ActionPlease email your MP today asking them to take … Continue reading Save our nurseries

The BBC have picked up the three days of action in October.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29336167

The following has been supplied by PCS HQPCS to join 72 hours of action in public sectorPCS national executive met today to consider the next steps in our national dispute in the civil service and related bodies.The NEC decided that a national strike will be called on Wednesday, 15 October. The action will be coordinated with … Continue reading National strike on 15 October