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11 April 2018
PCS elections: Vote for Democracy Alliance candidates!
Ballot papers for the PCS civil service union national executive committee and group elections will start arriving on 20 April
24 January 2018
PCS executive agrees next steps in pay campaign
On 31 January PCS members from across the UK civil service will participate in pay day protests over public sector pay restraint which has seen a 20% cut in wages since 2010. These protests come on the back of our fantastic consultative ballot result.
6 December 2017
Driving examiners walkout hits first day of new test
PCS members at Wakefield Driving Test Centre began two days of strike action on 4 December against attacks on their terms and conditions of work as part of a national dispute
29 November 2017
PCS union says no to pay misery
Other public sector unions are considering their position, with a number proposing to hold similar consultative ballots. This is to be welcomed - and they need to get on with it
1 November 2017
PCS pay cap ballot closes soon
The civil servants' union PCS is stepping up its pay campaign by holding a consultative ballot, timed to coincide with the autumn budget
18 October 2017
Conference on state spies: who's watching who?
It is clear undercover surveillance of trade unionists and left activists has taken place - contrary to the myth that it couldn't happen in Britain.
18 October 2017
Balloting members on the pay cap
The civil servants' union PCS is stepping up its pay campaign by holding a consultative ballot
9 August 2017
Coordinated action needed to break pay restraint
The misery of austerity for millions of workers is set to continue under the Tories. Chancellor Phillip Hammond has defended the 1% pay cap and claimed that public sector workers are overpaid
25 July 2017
Court victory for PCS and all trade unions
A High Court ruling that stated it was "unlawful" for the government to exclude the PCS union from negotiations
19 April 2017
Benefits workers oppose 'rape clause' and two-child limit
The prospect of explaining this inhumane process to women who have already experienced horrific trauma is unacceptable
19 April 2017
PCS ballot papers out: vote Democracy Alliance
PCS executive committee elections: It is vital that local reps act quickly to persuade members to vote for the Democracy Alliance slate
22 March 2017
End the seven-year public sector pay cap!
If the pay cap continues to the end of the decade, average civil service pay will fall in value by more than 20%
14 March 2017
State surveillance of unions: PCS assistant head demands inquiry
Secret government files released under the 30-year rule show that Margaret Thatcher's government directly meddled in the internal affairs of civil servants' union CPSA, the predecessor of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union.
8 March 2017
Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) workers took another day of strike action on 1 March after the disgraceful sacking of ten of their colleagues by email last month. The PCS and Unite unions are now demanding the reinstatement of these workers.
15 February 2017
PCS union pledges to fight Jobcentre job losses
Reports from PCS campaigning in Llanelli and Sheffield
15 February 2017
"Disgraceful" treatment of sacked EHRC workers
Ten government equality staff were sacked by email and had to clear their desks
1 February 2017
Trade Union Act: Strategy needed to defeat anti-union laws and lead the fightback
John McInally looks at how the TUC reacted to the trade union laws and what comes next.
23 November 2016
Lessons of the 'N30' 2011 pension strike
The fifth anniversary of the public sector pension strike allows an opportunity to reflect on the most significant and defining trade union struggle of the recent period.
9 November 2016
Courts and tribunal services face huge cuts
Huge changes are afoot in the civil service that will leave jobs slashed and public services a husk of their former selves. Given that 86,000 jobs have already been axed from the civil service over the past five years, this may seem like old news but the scale and scope of the Tories' austerity-driven changes are only now being revealed.
9 November 2016
Action needed to defend workers at the sharp end of prisons crisis
The latest national statistics on safety in our prison system were released recently. These quarterly figures have been breaking records and setting new "unprecedented highs" systematically since 2010 - a year which 'coincidentally' ties in with the culling of 7,000 prison officers' jobs.
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