At this years annual conference the Public & Commercial Services Union (PCS) launched a booklet that provides information on the threats and consequences of privatising public services. The document builds on a series of forums that took place during 2009/10.
These forums examined and exposed many past failures of the privatisation of public services and made [...]
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PCS on Privatisation
6 Comments CherryPie on Sep 2nd 2010
Collated info on the CSCS (7th March 2010):
In August 2009 the government announced plans to reform the Civil Service Compensation scheme in such a way that it made it look the Trade Unions had agreed to the terms. Although the Trade Unions and the cabinet office had been in negotiations since the previous autumn no [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 2nd 2010
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The Government Scrap £750m Border Security Contract
The Government has recently ended its £750m border security contract with a Raytheon-led consortium and said it had no confidence in the U.S. company.
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£755m UK border contract scrapped
By Lorraine Turner
Friday, 23 July 2010
The Government ended its £750m border security contract with a consortium led by Raytheon yesterday, saying it had no confidence in the [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 26th 2010
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One More Meeting
I had yet another meeting today which I won’t dwell on too much except to say it was in my lunch hour, it was about the proposed public sector cuts and the person who had asked me for a lift to the meeting was trying to dictate to me what time I would leave to [...]
No Comments CherryPie on Jun 22nd 2010
Yesterday we had our first PCS regional meeting for about three months. What with the general election and the campaign to save the Civil Service Compensation Scheme (CSCS) we hadn’t found time to get together before now.
For some reason I got rather confused and caught the train an hour earlier than I needed to. [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 18th 2010
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My Afternoon Off
On the half day that I had free between the two conferences I decided to visit the Royal Pavilion. To save time I asked for directions at the hotel reception and found my way there quite easily although it was further than I thought. The pavilion looked rather packed so I decided just to enjoy [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on May 27th 2010
Wednesday morning saw the start of this year’s PCS Annual Delegates Conference. The president Janice Godrich opened the conference and apologised for the fact that Mark Serwotka was unable to attend the conference this year.
Her speech outlined the current political situation regarding the labour legacy and what would come next from the Con-Lib alliance. [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on May 26th 2010
