Defend 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:
1) 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%
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.
3) Jobs: Over 3,000 Jobs cut/lost from the Fylde in the Civil Service
4) The Closure of a large part of the
DWP Norcross: With
scores of privatised Civil Servants being made compulsorily redundant
5) 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.
6) An attack on our Conditions of
Service: Including
our Annual Leave, Privilege Leave, Mobility rules, sick pay and a raft of other
issues
7) 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. 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. More privatisation is now threatened; as over 200 members in Shared
Services at DWP Norcross face being privatised.
8) 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.
9) The future of the jobs at Warbreck:
There are no
guarantees that there will be work for more than 500 people at Warbreck beyond
2018 (the time-frame for the end of the PIP reassessment work). Presently over
2000 people work there.
Don't forget the overtime ban until June 20th
