The government have ignored PCS offers to resolve the dispute by negotiations rather than strike action. This has led to PCS members planning further industrial action on budget day next week:
Legal and Strategy Update – 18th March
The NEC meets on Thursday 25 March to plan the CSCS campaign through April. A factor [...]
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2 Comments CherryPie on Mar 18th 2010
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
Clarence Darrow
22 Comments CherryPie on Mar 14th 2010
In the run up to the General Election there will be a lot of spin in the media on how the public sector is draining financial resources at the expense of the taxpayer.
The TUC in conjunction with Trade Unionists have produced a couple of leaflets that explain/debunk the myths that surround public sector spending, pensions [...]
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PCS Members Vote for Strike Action
On 2nd February 2010 the revised terms and conditions of the Civil Service Compensation Scheme were published. You will note the spin in the papers and on the civil service website that 5 unions agreed to the new terms:
These reflect the outcome of further discussions with the unions and have been agreed between the Cabinet [...]
32 Comments CherryPie on Feb 25th 2010
The February edition of PCS Defender publishes a letter about the media distortion regarding MoD pay, pensions, bonuses and civil servants in general. The letter was written to Conservative defence spokesperson Liam Fox MP by a PCS member. The letter sums up how a great many civil servants feel about the media frenzy that is [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 10th 2010
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Media Myths – MoD Budget
A recent edition of DefenceFocus featured an interview with Jon Thompson, MoD Director General of Finance, who oversees the MoD’s £35 billion budget. Within the interview he exposes some of the myths portrayed in the media:
DF: How much media coverage about the MoD’s coffers is true?
JT: Some of it is not accurate. It’s [...]
1 Comment CherryPie on Jan 31st 2010
No doubt most of you will have read the recent reports in the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail stating that MoD civil servants have earned in excess of £47 million in bonuses in the last six months. The Telegraph starts the article with this sensational comment:
Civil servants at the Ministry of Defence have [...]
15 Comments CherryPie on Nov 14th 2009
