Stockport Universal Credit workers’ strike to go ahead end of August
Strike scheduled for 28 and 29 August A two-day strike action by members of the PCS union working at Stockport’s Universal Credit centre is scheduled to proceed late this month […]
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HMRC staff to strike from midday today over office closures
HMRC staff take strike action today over office closures at Ealing Tax workers in the PCS union will take strike action from midday in their battle to prevent office closures. […]
Universally DISCreditED – one of UK’s most deprived areas plans for Labour govt and benefits justice
Huyton in the Knowsley borough on Merseyside hosted PCS chief Mark Serwotka, Unite’s Sheila Coleman, Unison’s Paula Barker and others for an important seminar on the government’s consciously cruel Universal […]
DWP/CLG: prove you’re a victim of domestic abuse – and we’ll still call you intentionally homeless
The first part of this article is an extract from an excellent but shocking article by Alex Tiffin over at the Universal Credit Sufferer blog – reproduced with permission, read […]
McVey screw-up costs thousands of DWP staff meagre pay-rise, with insult on top of injury
A screw-up – at best – by Work & Pensions (DWP) Secretary Esther McVey means that tens of thousands of DWP employees will be deprived of their paltry 1% annual […]
WRAG/sanctions: the definitive answer (as much as there is one)
As promised last night, the SKWAWKBOX has been looking further into conflicting reports from DWP insiders concerning the WRAG (work-related activity group) category into which the government, more or less […]
I’m not in a union. Don’t work in the public sector. Why I’ll be at the TUC’s ‘Future that Works’ march on 20 Oct
I’m not a member of any union and never have been. I don’t work in the public sector, and never have – although I’m married to a nurse. I work […]
Osborne’s strike ‘ban’ plan – vilest Tory hypocrisy (yet again)
Last week, the Daily Mail trailed plans by George Osborne to introduce ‘tough new strike laws to prevent militant unions holding Britain to ransom’. Osborne – supposedly ‘outraged’ by plans by […]