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Ten reasons to support the PCS Action to defend pay
jobs, pensions and conditions of service.Background: Our pay is frozen or cut, our pensions attacked, our terms and conditions attacked and our jobs are getting more stressful, redundancies are one more straw that we will not accept.
There are TEN good reasons why members are angry and should support the action:
- Pay: Pay in the Civil Service has been cut in real terms since 2007 with below inflation pay rises, and pay freezes. In the DWP has been cut in real terms between 13.8% and 19.2%
- 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 will get less in Pension.
- Jobs: Over 3,000 Jobs cut/lost from the Fylde in the Civil Service
- The Closure of a large part of the DWP Norcross: With up to 130 privatised Civil Servants being made compulsorily redundant
- 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.
- An attack on our Conditions of Service: Including our Annual Leave, Privilege Leave, Mobility rules, sick pay and a raft of other issues
- 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 Tax Dodgers. It is the case that 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. We should not be expected to pay for someone else’s mess.
- 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.
- The future of the jobs at Warbreck: There are no guarantees that there will be work for more than 400 people at Warbreck beyond 2018. Presently over 2000 people work there.
- Compulsory Redundancies: The recent announcement that the DWP was to make 43 administrative assistants/ administrative officers compulsorily redundant is a warning to all members. This was defeated by the threat of Industrial Action, but the threat remains to us all in the future.
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