Pete Middleman (PCS North West Regional Secretary) has sent this leaflet detailing other aspects of the current campaign/dispute that people may not be aware of to assist in helping people focus on how important voting yes is.

The Branch remains in correspondence with the local MPs regarding the closure of the majority of the DWP Norcross Site. We have also met one of the local MPs and one of the local Council Leaders in the last few weeks. Members may have heard misinformation that the reason why DWP Shared Service are remaining … Continue reading Reply from the Employment Minister regarding the closure of the majority of the DWP Norcross Site

Some members have asked what PCS policy is in regard to the DWP Norcross partial closure and compulsory posting members.PCS policy was set out in Emergency Motion 2 (EM2) and EM3 at the 2012 Group Conference. EM2 - Norcross ClosureSupported by the PCS DWP Group Executive Committee (GEC) and carried unanimously states at point 4 (GEC … Continue reading PCS Policy – Norcross Closure

The results of the DWP industrial action ballot are below:PCS are in continuing discussions with the employer to seek a resolution to the dispute.Question: Are you prepared to take part in strike action?Number of ballot papers returned: 18,498Number of papers found to be invalid: 527Thus, total number of valid papers to be counted: 17,971Number voting … Continue reading Results of the DWP industrial action ballot.

Dear ColleaguesThe purpose of this post is to advise members of forthcoming meetings to discuss the closure of the DWP Norcross site.The meetings have been split into members on the teams that have been announced as going to Peel Park and members on the teams that have been announced as going to Warbreck.The details of … Continue reading DWP NORCROSS CLOSURE – MEMBERS’ INFORMATION MEETINGS

The following has been supplied by PCS DWP Group:DWP have today announced the closure of two more large offices. One is the Lawnswood site in Leeds, the other is Newgate House in Rochdale.Lawnswood is primarily a Disability Living Allowance site, with some Fraud staff. Newgate House is primarily a Fraud site but also has small … Continue reading DWP announce closure of two more offices

<!--[if !mso]>st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]--> The Branch has been in correspondence with the local MPs regarding the closure of the majority of the DWP Norcross Site. We have also met several of the local MPs and one of the local Council Leaders since the premature announcement in June 2012 that the DWP Norcross site was to … Continue reading Reply from the Employment Minister regarding the closure of the majority of the DWP Norcross Site

<!--[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.