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8 September 2021
DWP: Demand safe working and more jobs
Resistance must be built to Tory attacks on the unemployed. In their drive to ramp up their harsh welfare system, they are prepared to put everyone's safety at risk. They plan to drag every claimant back
21 July 2021
Government departments move to impose pay cuts
Only by fighting will extra money be secured for pay and permanent contracts.
7 July 2021
Safety campaign in DWP: What has happened to our ballot?
Months after a ballot on safety in Jobcentres was launched by the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union, members are left wondering whatever happened to the campaign to keep them safe.
5 May 2021
Vote 'yes' in the PCS DWP ballot
PCS ballot closes 13 May - vote Broad Left Network: Broad Left Network members are building for a strong 'yes' vote in the DWP consultative ballot for PCS Jobcentre members which starts on 5 May and runs until 21 May.
28 April 2021
PCS ballots members in Jobcentres over safety
It is evident that the government is driving ahead to reopen Jobcentres to the public with reckless haste
21 April 2021
PCS leadership ballot underway
The ballot for PCS president and national executive committee opens on 22 April and runs to 13 May. PCS is the union for government workers in the civil service and public and private sectors.
14 April 2021
Support the Broad Left Network for a democratic, fighting union leadership
The ballot for PCS president and NEC opens on 22 April
3 March 2021
HMRC: Pay deal agreed but at what cost?
On 26 February the PCS union HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) pay ballot closed. The turnout was 82.4% with 79.6% for and 20.4% against the deal.
24 February 2021
HMRC: Divisive pay deal leads to expulsions
PCS members in the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are voting on a pay deal. The deal is for a 13% pay increase over three years, but if agreed would put all staff onto a new contract
10 February 2021
PCS: Vote for rank-and-file socialist Broad Left Network candidates
PCS union elections: PCS, the union for civil service and public sector workers, has begun the 2021 elections for its president and national executive committee (NEC)
30 September 2020
PCS: No to DWP management's plans - Yes to action
PCS union members in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are reacting furiously to management's rush to book appointments in all the Jobcentres, a move especially targeted at 18-to-24 year olds
16 September 2020
PCS members in DWP reject unsafe extension of hours
77% of PCS union members have voted in favour of industrial action in a consultative ballot
19 August 2020
Vote Yes in DWP ballot! Reject longer opening hours
PCS members in all the DWP's Jobcentres and 21 Universal Credit service centres must vote Yes in the ballot which starts 17 August
5 August 2020
PCS union: Reject longer DWP opening hours
The government's headlong rush to pretend things are getting back to normal is impacting on PCS members working in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
8 July 2020
Jobcentre reopening: only union struggle will put safety first
Jobcentres have become the latest battleground between workers' desire to work in safety and employers' desire to reopen services, ready or not.
1 July 2020
Benefits system being used to force return to unsafe workplaces
As previously reported in the Socialist, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), which oversees the payment of unemployment benefit to millions, had previously eased the requirements for claiming Universal Credit
6 May 2020
Unsafe Workplace? "It's up to you" PCS tells reps and members
PCS union reps and members at Paisley Jobcentre walked out on 24 April. Following an outbreak of Covid-19 in their office, they reached an agreement allowing staff to go home
21 April 2020
DWP: Action on workers' safety, and protection of pay and conditions needed
More than two million people have claimed benefits in the last four weeks. Failed Tory austerity is impacting health care workers having insufficient PPE and testing.
31 March 2020
Fight for safety, staffing and services - Covid chaos for benefits claimants
More than half a million claims to working-age benefits such as Jobseekers' Allowance and Universal Credit have been made in the last two weeks
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