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Workplace and TU campaigns / DWP
11 April 2012
DWP tells young people to bail out big business
When I last visited the Jobcentre I was given two letters. I was told I should attach them to any CVs or job applications I sent out, writes a job seeker.
29 February 2012
Interview with a jobcentre worker
What workfare really means: Workfare is a catch-all term used to describe the various unpaid work schemes the government operates through the Department for Work and Pensions
8 February 2012
Exploiting the unemployed to line the pockets of big business
The introduction of the government's flagship welfare service the Work Programme has been criticised recently in a National Audit Office (NAO) report, writes Katrine Williams, PCS Wales chair.
14 December 2011
Public sector pensions - where now?
The high court ruled on 2 December that the government was entitled to switch the measure of inflation used for calculating pensions etc from the traditionally higher retail prices index (RPI) to the consumer prices index (CPI), writes Fran Heathcote, PCS DWP national organiser, personal capacity.
28 October 2011
Madness to close jobcentres says PCS
The Public and Commercial Services union has condemned plans to close 19 jobcentres across the UK as unemployment rises, announced by the Department for Work and Pensions today...
28 September 2011
My impressions of the Work Programme
A year of countless hopeful, un-replied-to applications and a few disappointing interviews. My sense of dread in the jobcentre was even greater than usual with the prospect of the Work Programme...
1 August 2011
Overwhelming vote for action over IT offshoring plan
IT workers who maintain the records of millions of people for the Department for Work and Pensions have voted for industrial action over plans to offshore their work, the Public and Commercial Services union has announced...
25 May 2011
Atos Origin - profiting from pain
Disabled people are extremely angry with Steve Cram for accepting the post of 'ambassador' for big business privatisers Atos Origin in their capacity as IT partner for the London 2012 Olympics, writes Les Woodward, Remploy Trade Union National Convenor.
PCS pickets at Cobalt Park Jobcentre Plus call centre, photo Elaine Brunskill
18 April 2011
Enthusiastic support for PCS call centres strike
More reports added 19.4.11. Thousands of call centre workers supported the strike by the PCS union in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on 18 April over inhuman working conditions and a bad service to benefit claimants
PCS strike placard
13 April 2011
Jobcentre Plus call centre strike
We are not numbers! Jane Aitchison, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) PCS president, explains why PCS members are striking in all Jobcentre Plus call centres on 18 April
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