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.

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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.

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31 March 2021

London - We need socialists into City Hall

The government is hellbent on making working-class people pay the bill for Covid

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31 March 2021

Donate now to fuel our election campaigns

Across England and Wales, Socialist Party members are already busy campaigning and getting the anti-austerity socialist message out to as wide an audience as possible through the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition election campaigns

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24 March 2021

Lessons of the 2011 pensions strike: when workers showed their power

In 2011, trade unionists demonstrated in their hundreds of thousands and then took strike action in defence of their pensions and against public service cuts

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24 March 2021

Battle for a fighting, anti-austerity mayor

Liverpool has a rich history of councillors being prepared to fight

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24 March 2021

Help fund the Socialist Party's stand as part of TUSC

Socialist Party members are already out campaigning for Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidates ahead of May's elections

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10 March 2021

Tories keep bailing out bosses, while piling pain on workers and public services

Reading the headlines about Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak's budget, some working-class people may have let out a small sigh of relief that at least the furlough scheme and the £20 increase in Universal Credit are continuing for a few more months

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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2 December 2020

Where is devolution heading?

"Devolution is a disaster" were the reported words of Boris Johnson, referring to the Scottish government and "Tony Blair's biggest mistake".

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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.

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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

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