The TUC has criticised the government’s trade union watchdog for blocking a union’s ‘sensible action’ to stand up for women members by stopping sexual harassment. The union body was commenting after the watchdog, the Certification Officer, forced the Musicians’ Union to restore the membership of a someone expelled from the union after a succession of … Continue reading Government’s union watchdog blocks harassment action

please see below leaflets we are issuing outside of the departments land as we have been further restricted with advertising the ballot. Please can all members vote and stand up to the current restrictions and cuts in our wages. Austerity still lives on for civil servants and the government needs to be told enough is … Continue reading Ballot leaflets

You will be receiving your ballot papers shortly in the envelope shown with the leaflet explaining   Please vote and return ASAP, you will then receive an email to ask if you are happy for PCS to be made aware you voted, this will allow us to see how we are doing towards the 50% … Continue reading Ballot 2019 please read

XXXXXXXXX (MP) XXXXXXXXX (CONSTITUENCY) XXXXXXXXXX (ADDRESS)   Date , 2019   Dear ___________MP   I am writing to you as a constituent, but also as a member of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), to ask that you meet with me to discuss my unions current pay campaign. As a civil servant I have … Continue reading Write to your MP

international womans day balance for better    This year marks the centenary of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act in Britain, which opened all ‘civil professions or vocations’, including the civil service and legal profession, to women. The first women civil servants took up post some 50 years earlier but were restricted to specific roles, predominately … Continue reading International Woman’s Month

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AGM 2019

Up to 700 Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union members working in Universal Credit in the West Midlands have voted overwhelmingly for strike action over high workloads and too few staff. The union said the vote means two days of strike action will take place in March at Universal Credit centres in Walsall and Wolverhampton. … Continue reading Overworked Universal Credit workers back strike action

OFFICER ELECTION ADDRESSES 2019