The Prison Officers Association have concluded its ballot on the new Civil Service Compensation Scheme. Out of a 31,000 membership who were eligible to vote, a turn out of just over 48% produced a massive 95% rejection of the new terms.Steve Gillan, POA General Secretary stated:
“This was a resounding rejection by the second biggest Union in the Civil Service, of the Coalition Government’s imposition of the new terms, which on the whole are detrimental to our members”.
The POA are urging the Government to re-open negotiations, otherwise they may have to resort to law for a remedy.
Steve Gillan added:
“The largest union in the Civil Service, which is the PCS, have already rejected the new arrangements, now we have. We will be discussing our options with our lawyers in the coming days. Our membership has demonstrated that they will not accept a detriment to the terms and conditions that they signed up to when they joined the Civil Service”.
We say, that is nearly 90% of all civil service members voting to reject the changes to the CSCS. It reveals the outright lies of Francis Maude, that only PCS stands against the changes, in his attempts to divide the civil service unions.
