<!--[if !mso]>st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]--> The Fylde Central Benefits and Services Branch priority over the forthcoming period will be to ensure that the collective campaigning work continues (job cuts, site closures, pensions, pay etc). We issued a circular about this is November 2012.We are aware that members have many employment law issues surrounding the job cuts, … Continue reading Local Legal Option – Another Option

Nick Griffin Must Go!Unite Against Fascism Blackpool Meeting Friday 17th January , 6.00pmBlackpool Town Hall, Committee Room ESpeakers include:Gordon Marsden MPPaul Jenkins [North West Regional Organiser, UAF]At the European Elections on 22nd May, fascist BNP leader Nick Griffin only needs around 7.5% of the vote to keep his seat as Member of the European Parliament … Continue reading Unite Against Fascism Blackpool Meeting

The following has been supplied by Blackpool Against the Cuts:Public Meeting is Defence of the NHS Wednesday 22nd January - 7.30pmThe Ruskin Hotel, Albert Road, BlackpoolGuest speaker: Dr David Wrigley, plus other speakers.Please make every effort to attend.We need your support.  Blackpool against the cutsThe NHS has always been funded by us the tax payer and … Continue reading Public Meeting is Deffence of the NHS

The following details have been supplied by PCS DWP Group:Do you know any ex-FTA Members that this might apply to?In February 2013 PCS took DWP to an Employment Tribunal (ET) to secure redundancy compensation for our ex-Fixed Term Appointment (FTA) members who were dismissed without compensation when their FTA contracts were ended after two or … Continue reading FTA Redundancy Compensation

The following has been supplied by the PCS Equality, Pay and Policy Department:The TUC Black Workers’ Conference will be held on Friday 11 April to Sunday 13 April 2014.The venue will be TUC, Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS.PCS uses ‘black’ in the political context to encompass members from African, Caribbean, Asian, Chinese, … Continue reading TUC BLACK WORKERS’ CONFERENCE 2014 – NOMINATIONS TO PCS DELEGATION

Just a brief update regarding the legal challenge against the employer’s decision to not pay members Workforce Management Redeployment Package travelling time (or TOIL), or additional family costs due to the closure of the majority of the DWP Norcross site, despite members being asked to/ having to travel beyond their reasonable daily travelling time.On Wednesday … Continue reading Legal Challenge against non payment of Workforce Management Redeployment Package

The following has been received from NW Unite Against Facism:Over 70 people attended the North West UAF Regional Conference in Liverpool on Sunday 2nd December, which was supported by North West TUC, Unite the union, CWU, UCU NW Region and Lancashire NUT.The conference pushed forward the campaign (launched last year with the support of NW … Continue reading NW UAF: Euro 2014: Nick Griffin Must Go!

The following has been supplied by PCS HQ: To All DWP branches,Management at Ofqual the examinations qualifications regulator have sacked PCS branch chair Sofia Azam. PCS believe that this is a clear case of trade union victimisation and is balloting Ofqual members for action.The PCS branch has been involved in re-grading negotiations over the last year. It … Continue reading Defend Sofia Azam

SATURDAY 18th JANUARY 2014The PCS North West region has been asked to run the above seminar.  This is a pilot seminar to ascertain the possibility of holding yearly regional equality seminars to encourage newer reps and members to become more active within the Union. Although this is quite late notice you will have seen the … Continue reading PCS NORTH WEST DISABLED MEMBERS SEMINAR