PCS steps up pressure against HMRC anti-union plot

PCS is stepping up the pressure on HMRC over senior management's anti-union plot by involving Europe's largest federation of public service unions, the TUC and our parliamentary group.

While we were trying to negotiate in good faith with the chief executive Lin Homer over our jobs and staffing campaign, a secret management document was brought to our attention which shows a plan to undermine and marginalise PCS. 

HMRC unilaterally walked away from talks aimed at resolving our ongoing dispute, and removed facility time from some of our most senior reps.

On Friday we wrote to PCS members in HMRC and published a transcript of the secret paper we have seen outlining the anti-union plot by their employer.

Now Jan Willem Goudriaan, general secretary of the 8million-strong European Federation of Public Service Unions, has offered to intervene on behalf of PCS and write to Ms Homer and there is a growing alliance willing to act for us, including TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady and our cross-party parliamentary group, chaired by Labour MP John McDonnell. This will include raising questions in the House of Commons.

We remain ready to discuss jobs, performance management and privatisation but we will not be bullied into signing up to damaging cuts. We are still prepared to go to the conciliation service Acas to try to resolve the dispute, something that Ms Homer has previously rejected.

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