Please see the attached link to the PCS website coverage of the most recent debate in Parliament on the proposed office closures on 16 March. The full debate can be found using the link in the article “during the backbench debate…” http://www.pcs.org.uk/news/mps-attack-dwp-closure-plans-ahead-of-pcs-lobb

To:       Branch Secretaries, Chairs and Organisers CC:      Regional Committee, PCS Liverpool Staff Date: 17/03/2017 NW/RB/049/17   As discussed at our team meeting, please send this email out to your DWP Networks Regional members / Region asking them to contact their MP. Fight DWP Office Closures - National Lobby of Parliament 1-4pm Tuesday 28 March House … Continue reading Fight DWP Office Closures – National Lobby of Parliament

The TUC has ripped apart the latest attempt by a right-wing lobby group to claim paid release for union reps comes at a cost. TUC national organiser Carl Roper said the annually regurgitated claim by the Taxpayers’ Alliance that union volunteers are a drain on the public purse and taxpayers gets picked up uncritically by … Continue reading Union reps are good for workers and employers

The following details have been supplied by the TUC: New official figures showing a sharp rise in the number of workers on zero hours contracts demonstrate the need for an urgent reform of employment law, the TUC has said. Commenting on figures published this week by the Office for National Statistics, which show that the … Continue reading Zero hours contracts treat workers like ‘disposable labour’

As soon as the office closures were announced, the PCS DWP Group Executive Committee identified 11 ‘hotspot’ offices where there was the greatest risk of a significant number of redundancies resulting from the proposed office closures. These are Cumnock, Poole, Barrow, Annesley, Llanelli, Porth, Wembley, Bishop Auckland, Coatbridge, Holborn House Preston and Warrington Birchwood. PCS … Continue reading PCS Opposes the Office Closures

Trade unions and employers are dealing with an increasingly diverse workforce. There are higher numbers of women and people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities in the workforce than ever before. The population is aging, with many women intending to stay in work for longer and many trying to juggle work with caring responsibilities. … Continue reading PCS Women in the Workplace

The Branch Executive Committee has requested that all members contact their MPs or local councillors regarding the situation of public transport provision to Peel Park from April 2017. At the link below is an model letter to MPs and one to local councillors. Please feel free to use these letters, adapt them to fit your … Continue reading Peel Park Bus – Can you Help?

Break the 1% pay cap – tell the government: It's time to pay up PCS has irrefutable evidence of the damaging effects of civil service pay policy which shows that the value of earnings since 2010 has fallen further than the value of pay in the rest of the public sector, and in the economy … Continue reading Do not support these campaigns from your work email

Please click the link below to see the following flyer regarding the plans to close 103 offices, including 74 jobcentres: Click Here

The following details have been supplied by the TUC: An inquiry into work dress codes has exposed “widespread discrimination” against women, MPs have said. The investigation was prompted by a petition, being debated by MPs, that called for a ban on requiring women to wear high heels at work. MPs said they were “shocked” by … Continue reading MPs ‘shocked’ by women’s dress code stories