There are 10
good reasons why our members are angry:
1 Pay
Pay in the DWP has been cut in real terms between 13.8% to 19.2%
Pay in the DWP has been cut in real terms between 13.8% to 19.2%
2 Pensions if you retire now
Cut between
28.8% to 34.2%, not including the Public Sector Workers’ Tax and not including
not receiving it until age 67 or 68 Also not including that Members wil get
less in Pension.
3 Jobs
3,000 Jobs
cut/ lost from the Fylde
4 The Closure of a large part of the
DWP Norcross
With up to
130 privatised Civil Servants being made compulsory redundant
5 People at DWP Norcross being asked
to work up to 2 hours a day extra
People at DWP
Norcross who may be redeployed to Peel Park are being asked to travel 2 extra
hours a day to get to Peel Park, for yet another cut in pay. They will get
excess fares, but these are taxable and that equates for some people as being
£16 a month down, and 10 hours unpaid labour per week down.
6 The future of the jobs at Warbreck
There are no
guarantees that there will be work for more than 400 people at Warbreck beyond
2017. Presently over 2000 people work there.
7 An attack on our Conditions of
Service
Including our
Annual Leave, Privilege Leave, Mobility rules, sick pay and a raft of other
issues
8 Compulsory Redundancies
The announcement
that the DWP is to make 43 administrative assistants/ administrative officers
compulsorily redundant rather than move work to them – this is a warning to all
members in the DWP
9 Scrapping our Compensation Scheme if
we are made redundant
After PCS had defeated this in Court, the Government
changed the Law.
No other
employer could enforce cuts in Employment terms by changing the Law after it
had been found to be acting unlawfully in Court.
10 Privatisation
All this is
to prepare the ground to sell us off to the Private Sector (or the Privatised
Sector) to make more money for the rich, and the other Tax Dodgers.
We did not
create the financial mess; we are not the financial speculators who created the
financial mess and resultant recession. We did not financially benefit from the
financial sector bubble that so spectacularly burst.
