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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.
3 March 2021
Public sector workers respond to the budget
"The financial outlook is volatile." This (under)statement, in Essex County Council's budget document for 2021, could be the strapline for the future of all local government services.
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
17 February 2021
Doing all we can to fund the anti-cuts stand at the ballot box
Socialist Party members and supporters are doing a brilliant job raising fighting fund this quarter. This has been particularly buoyed by the donations we have received to help fund the Socialist Party's
3 February 2021
HMRC: We demand a pay rise without cuts to terms and conditions
On 1 February, a multi-year pay offer was made to union members in HMRC.
3 February 2021
Save our square: we need social housing and public services
Waltham Forest Labour council in East London approved plans to build a block of unaffordable, private housing on Walthamstow town square
20 January 2021
May elections: Tories and Labour's Khan both vying to slash public services
Transport investment has been on the basis of vanity projects and expensive outsourcing
9 December 2020
HMRC pay talks - PCS needs to organise members now
Revenue and Customs (HMRC) management's business case for pay linked to contract changes has been agreed by the Treasury
2 December 2020
Unions must resist return to austerity
Chancellor Sunak's spending review should be a wake-up call to the trade union leaders. Even from the capitalists' point of view there was no immediate need to impose a pay freeze on 1.5 million public sector workers.
2 December 2020
"Devolution is a disaster" were the reported words of Boris Johnson, referring to the Scottish government and "Tony Blair's biggest mistake".
2 December 2020
Napo kickstarts fight against pay freeze
At my first meeting on the national executive committee (NEC) of probation union Napo, I put forward an emergency motion to launch a campaign against the pay freeze.
25 November 2020
Covid crisis: "We won't pay the price"
After giving Covid contracts worth billions to their cronies, the Tories announced yet another pay freeze for millions of public sector workers, and the scrapping of the planned increase in the minimum wage
Hugo Pierre, speaking at Socialism 2020, 21st November 2020
22 November 2020
4 November 2020
Why the Socialist Party is backing Hugo Pierre for Unison general secretary
On the 28 October, 1.4 million ballot papers will go out to Unison public sector union members to decide who should be the new general secretary and lead the union.
7 October 2020
Germany: "Heroes" strike to demand a pay rise
Public sector workers in Germany's hospitals, kindergartens, civil service, refuse operations, as well as public transport workers, have started 'warning strikes' in support of their wage demands.
22 July 2020
Tories using pandemic to privatise NHS more
Another £3 billion for the NHS to prepare for the coming winter, said the Tory government. NHS England had actually said it needed £10 billion.
24 June 2020
South Africa: Building jobs and living wage campaign
On 17 June, hundreds of workers marched in Johannesburg, South Africa, demanding permanent jobs and a monthly living wage of R12,500 (£580).
31 March 2020
More than ever, we need accountable union leaders
The PCS union's national elections have been suspended
16 March 2020
Coronavirus - a workers charter 2020
Coronavirus reveals the capitalist system in crisis
Workers mustn’t pay the price
Party document 16 March 2020
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Bus workers under attack and fighting back
Manchester indefinite bus strike against 'fire and rehire'
HMRC: Pay deal agreed but at what cost?
Sparks force bosses back but fight continues to stamp out deskilling
Reinstate victimised bus driver Declan Clune
IT workers walkout against 'fire and rehire'
Why we need socialists in London city hall
Stop domestic abuse service closures in Brighton
Swansea BLM protest against racist police brutality
Union fight to save musicians' livelihoods
Labour surrenders to Tories in Devon
Determined to smash the fighting fund target to fuel election challenge in May
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