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18 March 2020
PCS union demands better deal for benefits claimants
The government has announced new support for claimants who contract, or have to stay at home due to, Covid-19
12 February 2020
Nottingham: death of vulnerable claimant
A vigil was held in Nottingham on 7 February to remember Errol Graham, who died when the Department for Work and Payments (DWP) stopped his benefit
12 February 2020
Cesar Zanin, a part-time NHS worker living in temporary accommodation and bringing up a six-year-old daughter, didn't know where their next meal was coming from after the DWP stopped his Universal Credit without warning
29 January 2020
PCS union elections: Nominate candidates fighting austerity and for union democracy
When I stood to be general secretary nearly 10,000 PCS union members voted for my campaign, to rebuild a fighting democratic union.
15 January 2020
A meeting called in the name of the PCS Broad Left Network takes place in Manchester on 18 January. The main business will be to agree a programme and candidates to contest the 2020 elections in the PCS
16 October 2019
Marion is on the election ballot paper, having won 39 nominations
2 October 2019
PCS general secretary election - Support Marion Lloyd
For a proven track record of fighting for members' interests
Drivers and passenger assistants employed by Hackney council in the Special Education Needs Service have won a victory
11 September 2019
22 May 2019
Short stories of workplace struggles including DWP and blood courier strikes and the NSSN conference.
1 May 2019
Build a universal safety net - abolish Universal Credit!
Thousands of Universal Credit claimants are not getting the money they are entitled to - and desperately need - without even knowing.
3 April 2019
PCS elections: Support socialist candidates
National elections in the PCS civil servants' union start on 16 April and finish 9 May. They are for the national executive committee (NEC), which is elected annually, and the assistant general secretary (AGS) position - elected for a five-year term
3 April 2019
End Tory cold cruelty: life under austerity in Merthyr
Scrap Universal Credit now: Merthyr has received a bad press as the "benefit capital of Britain". The Mirror newspaper pointed out the average male life expectancy on one of the estates is lower than Haiti's. But it's a friendly town.
13 March 2019
Tories out. Scrap Universal Credit. Fight for living wages and welfare!
Universal Credit is hardly out of the news. The suffering and anxiety it has caused is immeasurable - so much so that even some Tory MPs have been forced to highlight problems with its implementation.
23 January 2019
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist's editors. Disability benefits nightmare; disappearing hospitals
2 January 2019
New Year. Same Universal Credit misery. Scrap it now!
Christmas was far from merry for many - we need a living wage and welfare system!
28 November 2018
End "poverty, ill health and despair":a benefits adviser speaks out against the cuts
I have worked, since leaving college - 22 years - solely in benefits. I have witnessed the systematic destruction of a support system meant to help those who need it most, creating a widespread situation
7 November 2018
Back Chris Baugh and Marion Lloyd for a fighting, democratic, lay-led union
This month votes take place to decide the PCS Left Unity candidates for the union's 2019 elections.
24 October 2018
PCS legal win - build further pressure from below to defeat the Tories
The PCS civil service union has won £3 million in damages following the union's challenge to the attempts by the Tory government to cut off its financial support from the DWP
5 September 2018
DWP: PCS union builds fightback on pay
Management didn't even write to the Treasury to make a case for much-needed extra money to fund a pay rise
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