<!--[if !mso]>st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]--> <!--[if !mso]>st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]--> The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has no intention of grounding Santa, the safety body's top official has confirmed. HSE chair Judith Hackitt was responding after a 14 December front page splash in the Daily Star headlined 'Elf and safety Santa ban' proclaimed: 'Health and safety nuts … Continue reading HSE gifts us a seasonal sanity clause

Our pay is frozen or cut, our pensions attacked, our terms and conditions attacked and our jobs are getting more stressful, redundancies are one more straw that we will not accept. There are 10 good reasons why our members are angry:1 PayPay in the DWP has been cut in real terms between 13.8% to 19.2%2 … Continue reading 10 Reasons to support the PCS Campaign to defend jobs and oppose the threatened redundancies

Blackpool Gazette have picked up the story of the change in decision for the DWP Norcross closure.The page can be viewed here.

To all members and potential members of the PCS Fylde Central Benefits and Services Branch at Norcross.Dear ColleagueDWP Norcross Continues – Announcement of 18th December 2012Members at DWP Norcross may/ should have seen the communications from the employer regarding the continuation (in part) of the DWP Norcross site, with Shared Services moving in to Tomlinson … Continue reading DWP Norcross Continues

PCS is balloting all members in the DWP for strike action and an overtime ban to oppose compulsory redundancies and for more staff.The ballot will start on 12 December and end on 10 January.Please make sure that you vote.PCS strongly recommends that you vote YES/YES.There is no justification for these redundanciesDWP has issued compulsory redundancy … Continue reading Vote YES for strike action

The government is making unprecedented cuts across the public sector and is removing people’s social, economic and civil rights. The welfare state which was established to provide social security to those unable to work is being dismantled through privatisation and £30 billion of cuts.The attacks on the welfare state by the Tory-led government are ideological … Continue reading Campaigning against welfare cuts

How we can win on payPCS members are being hammered financially by the government’s economic illiteracy that masquerades as a deficit reduction plan. PCS policy officer Enrico Tortolano outlines how the union is campaigning against pay austerity:“Soaring energy bills, increased travel costs, rising food prices, benefit and tax credit cuts, VAT increases, falling wages and … Continue reading Pay

PCS is encouraging members to support UK Uncut's 'refuge from the cuts' at branches of Starbucks on Saturday.Low paid women and their families are bearing the brunt of the government’s austerity programme. That is why UK Uncut has been working with women’s campaign groups to turn tax avoiders Starbucks into services such as crèches and … Continue reading Support for UK Uncut Starbucks protests

The PCS DWP Group Executive Committee has raised with DWP management the reference in their advice to, “staff intending to take part in these protests must agree time off with their line manager in advance”. DWP Management have agreed that this is badly worded and that it is not their intention that staff must have … Continue reading Protest Update

Strike Ballot Agreed by DWP GEC.The PCS DWP Group Executive Committee has voted unanimously today to ballot for strike action and an overtime ban to oppose unnecessary and avoidable compulsory redundancies and to secure a major increase in staffing levels in order to deliver services. It is madness for DWP to make anyone redundant, it … Continue reading More staff not less!