The Branch has set up a Hardship fund to support members who have encountered financial hardship as a result of taking strike action.The term "financial hardship" means for example that you need to pay for a prescription but do no longer have the funds to buy it.If you wish to make a claim to the … Continue reading Important Notice regarding the Branch Hardship Fund

In May PCS members in Garston Contact Centre in the DWP Liverpool Branch voted by a majority of five and a half to one in favour of strike action to fight the closure of the office. 95% of PCS members at Garston Contact Centre supported two 1 day strikes on 16 May and 23 June … Continue reading Garston Contact Centre members take 5 days strike action to oppose office closure

Shared Services Connect Limited (SSCL) PCS members have voted by 150 to 9 in favour of accepting the 2.3% consolidated pay increase offer from SSCL. The increase will be paid at the end of October and backdated to 1 July 2014. Thank you to all of the members who voted. Further talks will be held between SSCL … Continue reading SSCL PCS members vote YES to 2.3% pay increase

I say I say I say, when is Voluntary Participation Industrial or Political Action?An all Members Briefing asked members to not participate in the DWP People Survey. Senior DWP management have protested that distributing the briefing by Departmental email was a breach of the Employee Relations Framework.The ERF forbids Industrial or Political materials to be … Continue reading Don’t participate in the 2014 People Survey

Dear Colleagues (and potential colleagues),The purpose of this post is to inform members of the PCS strike action across the Civil Service on the 15th of October 2014. The action will be coordinated with unions representing workers in the health service which have announced action on Monday, 13th October, and with unions in local government which … Continue reading

The DWP is closing onsite nurseries and ending a childcare subsidy for its workers.This move flies in the face of the family friendly policies the government claims to believe in and forces many parents to make difficult decisions about whether they can even afford to continue working.ActionPlease email your MP today asking them to take … Continue reading Save our nurseries

The BBC have picked up the three days of action in October.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29336167

The following has been supplied by PCS HQPCS to join 72 hours of action in public sectorPCS national executive met today to consider the next steps in our national dispute in the civil service and related bodies.The NEC decided that a national strike will be called on Wednesday, 15 October. The action will be coordinated with … Continue reading National strike on 15 October

The PCS DWP London Regional Committee has set up a petition to support George Thompson. The petition calls upon DWP London Regional Management to withdraw the 2 year final written warning issued to George Thompson, PCS DWP North East London Branch Secretary for issuing a press release against job cuts.The link is here. Please support the … Continue reading Support George Thompson

PCS Conference Policy calls for members to take no part in staff surveysNational union policy The NEC has met and confirmed that all PCS Groups must continue to campaign for non participation in ‘staff surveys’ as agreed by the 2013 national conference. This is because of:Widespread pressure on staff across the civil service to complete … Continue reading People Survey Boycott 2014