Then a Civil Service wide overtime ban
from 11th May to 30th June
The purpose of this post is to inform members of the strike action on the 10th May 2012 to be followed by a Civil Service wide overtime ban from 10th May to 30th June 2012.
PCS has done everything possible to resolve the disputes over Pensions, the Civil Service Compensation Scheme, the Pay Freeze (and two more years of extreme pay restraint) however to date there has not been an acceptable outcome from the Government.
We have already witnessed over two thousand five hundred job losses from the Fylde economy due to the job cuts in the area and even more are now in jeopardy and many members are facing being made redundant, we have seen our pay frozen and the Government has announced another two years of extreme pay restraint (and unlike other areas of the Public Sector our Pay Progression isn’t separately funded meaning that we are treated even more unfairly than other public servants), our Pensions are under attack (we are being expected to pay more for our pensions, work longer and receive less) and our redundancy terms have been cut so that it is cheaper to get rid of us.
We are being asked to pay for the financial mess created by the bankers and the financial speculators and spivs, with our jobs, our pay, our pensions and our conditions of service.
The financial mess was none of our making. It’s their financial mess make them pay for it.
It is time for members to show that they oppose the notion of being forced to pay for the excesses of the spivs.
Our reasonable demands are:
- No detrimental changes to our pensions and our redundancy payments
- Application and strengthening on the protocols to avoid redundancy
- An end to the pay freeze and a fair pay rise for all members
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