After the successful industrial action combating the Governments reprehensible attack on the CSCS – a term and condition of service that the Government intend to unilaterally alter to all staff’s detriment, a move that heralds a fresh round of job loses and privatisations – the Civil Service are all out on Budget Day Wednesday 24th March.Some members have wondered why communication has been low on this, it is because our management would discipline the local reps if we used facility to communicate industrial action. The flyers we put round Tomlinson House today were printed privately and distributed in reps own time. This is also why we cannot email such things as voting figures round the membership, a question we have been asked, except on a one on one basis when directly requested. However the figures are there for all to see on the PCS homepage.
Many thanks to all those who took part in the 8th and 9th action. We hope you’ll join us in unity again to send a message to Tessa Jowell that she cannot tear our contracts up like this. Lets face it, the answer to why are the very bankers who led us to financial ruin were not having their obscene bonuses removed was… They have contracts. Tessa, so do we. Lord Ashcroft may be a very naughty boy but the Government won’t tackle his obscene disregard of UK tax law as it is “retrospective”. But the attack on the CSCS is retrospective.
The idea that all civil service unions bar PCS have agreed the changes is actually a misrepresentation of the truth. There are other unions opposing these changes also but, remember this. We represent 80% of the civil service.
One Out – All Out.
