The following article appeared on the Blackpool Citizen newspaper website on Sunday:
Last day for Lytham civil servants
By Tyrone Marshall
The last civil servants based at Moorland Road in Lytham will leave the site for the final time tomorrow.
More than 2,500 people used to work for the Department for Work and Pensions, at the site. The local Public and Commercial Services Union fear more job cuts are to follow.
Branch secretary Duncan Griffiths said: "Over 1500 jobs have been cut and the remaining members want an end to all the job cuts, uncertainty and additional workloads that they inherit. Instead they have been threatened by the prospect of further drastic levels of job cuts."
"The Lytham site will not have any DWP staff based there after April 21 and the Norcross site is around a third empty."
Last day for Lytham civil servants
By Tyrone Marshall
The last civil servants based at Moorland Road in Lytham will leave the site for the final time tomorrow.
More than 2,500 people used to work for the Department for Work and Pensions, at the site. The local Public and Commercial Services Union fear more job cuts are to follow.
Branch secretary Duncan Griffiths said: "Over 1500 jobs have been cut and the remaining members want an end to all the job cuts, uncertainty and additional workloads that they inherit. Instead they have been threatened by the prospect of further drastic levels of job cuts.""The Lytham site will not have any DWP staff based there after April 21 and the Norcross site is around a third empty."
