DON'T RIP UP OUR RIGHTS

PCS members at Makerfield Contact Centre sent a strong message today to the Cabinet Office:

              Calling All Young Members
 
Join the young members network today!
The young members network was established to give young workers a voice in the workplace ensuring we have a healthy union which has democracy at its heart, campaigning on the issues that matter, well into the future.

The network was set up in 2004 and has gained momentum since. There are 9 regions covering all civil service departments across the UK.

There are around 700 young PCS members signed up to the network. The young members’ charter is a set of key principles outlining what we stand for and can be found on our web pages.

Young member convenors gain useful training and experience in organising and representing members in the workplace and area.

The young members network objective is to give young workers the confidence, through their trade union, to make a difference – whether that’s in the workplace, community or wider.
The young members network fully support the ‘Youth Fight for Jobs’ campaign which fights for decent jobs and living conditions for young people. Its clearly not right that young people should pay for the economic crisis.
The young members network also participate in initiatives around the environment, tax justice and anti fascist campaigning.







Ask your PCS rep for an application form today

UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION NOW!

It is important that the union can contact you quickly with things like ballot results, details of industrial action action called, and decisions taken by PCS elected committees.

We cant use work emails to send out strike information and this governments ceaseless quest to remove facilities for unions and smash the rights of our members to pieces mean it is absolutely essential that PCS both at national level and at branch level have your personal email and mobile phone details.

Without PCS having this vital information , in the future you may be left isolated at the time you need the union most.

Please click the following link and update your details online now. You can also sign up for a monthly campaigns newsletter, join the PCS group on Facebook and follow PCS on Twitter to get the latest news and information.

http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/campaigns/text-and-email-alerts/union-latest.cfm

It is also vital that your membership details are correct on the PCS database, particularly your BALLOT ADDRESS. Due to the reduction or removal of messenger services from an increasing number of work places it is recommended that you use your HOME ADDRESS for ballot purposes. Please click the following link and follow these steps.

1/ select MY PERSONAL DETAILS from Left Hand column.

2/ select My addresses from TOP TABS

3/ click edit these details to change your BALLOT ADDRESS to your home address.

  

http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/member/index.cfm

AND FINALLY!

PCS Wigan Branch are working on setting up an external email distribution list to send updates and info direct to your home email. Please send your email address to us using the following email link.

pcswigan@gmail.com

NEC meeting to agree campaign activity in November

The National Executive Committee (NEC) is meeting on 7 November to consider important campaign activity over the coming weeks. 

On 14 November the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has called for a day of action and solidarity in order to mobilise the European trade union movement against austerity policies.  http://www.etuc.org/a/10446


The NEC will consider campaign activities for the day.


The NEC will also be considering a campaign plan involving a day of protest at the end of November against the coalition government's proposed review of civil service terms and conditions which threatens to cut basic entitlements such as annual leave on purely political grounds.

Further information will be issued immediately after the meeting on 7 November.

Fresh Tory attack on civil servants.

A leaked cabinet office reveals the latest vicious ideological attack being launched by the tories against hard working civil servants.

The document lays bear the full extent of the tories plans to dismantle the terms and conditions of hard working civil servants, and includes a number of family-friendly policies such as childcare, compressed hours working, flexitime, parental leave, part-time working, job sharing and term-time working.

The document also lists other policies that could be reviewed, including advances of pay, allowances, excess hours, weekend working, travelling time, eye tests and advances in money to pay for travel expenditure and subsistence payments.

The full document can be viewed here

 Cabinet document

PCS guerilla lightshow

 

 

 

 

This anti-austerity message was beamed by PCS on to the Conservative party headquarters in London! Another high-profile building will be lit up in the coming days with

 

the same message… that it’s time to say no to the government’s austerity programme, and to get ready to demonstrate on 20 October.

 

A spokesman from PCS said, “PCS is proud of its reputation for leading the fightback against brutal austerity measures"

 

The union is supporting the TUC anti-austerity marches on 20 October and proposes an alternative based on closing the £120 billion tax gap, job creation, defending public services and investing in big, socially useful projects, such as housing, renewable energy and public transport.

 

“We are challenging the government’s slash and burn approach to the public sector, every step of the way.”

Condem the Con-Dems @ O20

Austerity isn’t working!

Our country faces long-term economic problems. But our political leaders have failed to face up to them.
For the next five years or more, unless policies change the economy will not grow, incomes will not rise, and there will be almost no new jobs.
If the government keeps on with big spending cuts and austerity we face a lost decade.
Even on their own terms government policies are failing. Rather than deep, rapid spending cuts, we need to reverse our decline and build an economy that works for ordinary families.
PCS Wigan Branch along with 1000s of other branches from dozens of other Unions across the country will be desending on London on October the 20th to send a clear message to this unelected government of millionairs: "we will not pay for your crisis"!

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