Our members working in shared services for DWP and DEFRA are taking the action to protect jobs and services and to safeguard the personal data of thousands of their fellow workers.
The staff involved face privatisation on 1 November with the threat of site closures, redundancies and off-shoring to follow.
In addition all members in DWP and DEFRA face having their private data off-shored along with those of tens of thousands of other civil servants.
UKSBS (the shared services arm of BIS) is also scheduled to become part of Shared Services Connected Limited (SSCL) - the private company involved - from 2015. SSCL is expected to bid for further civil service work in the future.
This current round of shared services privatisation follows on from the privatisation of DFT shared services in June this year.
