PCS union general secretary and TUC president announces first-in-a-century decision at Labour conference Union leader Mark Serwotka made a speech to Labour’s conference in Brighton this morning that Labour insiders […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]