The following has been supplied by PCS HQ:Employment Tribunal fees were introduced one year ago.Since then workers with an employment dispute have had to pay fees to take their case to an Employment Tribunal.As a result of these fees many people can no longer afford to use the Tribunal to seek justice in employment-related disputes. … Continue reading Employment Tribunal fees

The following has been supplied by PCS HQ:Last week PCS members in Bootle supported the first day in a 6-day strike against privatisation of MoJ shared services. The action, which includes 118 members and runs until 31 July, is part of our ongoing campaign to protect jobs and prevent offshoring in shared services, covering areas … Continue reading Save our Shared Services

Dear Colleagues (and potential colleagues)OVERTIME BAN FROM 11TH JULY TO 31ST JULY 2014.The purpose of this post is to inform members of the overtime ban following on from the PCS strike action across the Civil Service and many other Public Sector areas on the 10th July 2014 that there is now a Civil Service wide … Continue reading Civil Service-wide Overtime Ban

Organisers and Trade Union negotiators have cause to celebrate as ILO Convention C098, better known as the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention 1949, was adopted sixty five years ago (on July 1st) in Geneva, Switzerland.This protected workers in countries who were members of the International Labour Organisation, binding them to the articles in … Continue reading Happy 65th Anniversary to the Right to Organise and Collectively Bargain

PCS NW Regional Office have asked us to pass on the following message:ColleaguesPlease would you pass on this link to the website covering the petition launched to stop the potential sell off of the Highways Agency.http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/pcs_comment/index.cfm/oppose-highways-agency-sell-off-and-road-tolling If your members drive they will be very interested in this development, especially those who drive to work.We stopped the … Continue reading Stop Selling our Highways

The following details have been supplied by the PCS DWP Group:The Group Executive Committee (GEC) is continuing to implement national conference carried motion A15 which noted disciplinary action against George Thompson the DWP North East London branch secretary and called upon the union to support and publicise the case. The case has now been submitted … Continue reading Defending George Thompson – Petition

The following details have been supplied by the PCS DWP Group:DWP have announced today (15th July 2014) yet another transfer of staff across DWP Operations. This time management have announced the creation of 6 satellite contact centres to be set up on the following sites:Boston Job CentreChatham Job CentreLancaster Job CentreLuton Job CentreRedruth Job CentreSkegness … Continue reading Compulsory transfer of WSD and BD staff into Contact Centres Services (CCS)

The Following has been supplied by PCS DWP Group: To All PCS members in the DWPAll PCS members have voted to support strike action and action short of strike. Action short of a strike means an overtime ban.After the strike on 10 July there is an overtime ban from Friday 11 July to Thursday 31 July … Continue reading Support the Overtime Ban

The Following has been supplied by PCS DWP Group: To all DWP PCS members,Yesterday's action was a great success with big demonstrations all over the country. On behalf of the Group Executive Committee thanks to all members for their support.There is now an immediate opportunity to keep the pressure on through the overtime ban which begins … Continue reading Thank You

The Government has announced an independent review of Personal Independent Payment Plans. Individuals and organisations can submit information, so please highlight this amongst your contacts and encourage people to contribute.The current backlog of PIPs in the process of being assessed is 712,000.https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/321292/pip-indpendent-review-1-call-for-evidence.pdf