Yesterday the PCS President Janice Godrich visited my workplace to speak at a meeting of PCS members and address their concerns on the Government’s recent proposed changes to the civil service compensation scheme (CSCS). The new plans would radically reduce the compensation that would be paid to civil servants if they were made redundant.
Janice explained [...]
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Janice Godrich Comes to Shropshire
Comments Off CherryPie on Sep 30th 2009
A recent study into Civil Service pay by Income Data Services (IDS) further exposes the myth that civil servants are paid more than their counterparts in the private sector. The study reveals that there are gaps of more than £5000 between the Civil Service and the private sector.
The report compares the median salaries of four [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Sep 17th 2009
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Women Chainmakers Festival 2009
On Saturday 12th September I attended the 5th Women’s Chainmakers Festival with friends. The event took place at the Black Country Living Museum, Dudley and is held annually to commemorate the struggle of the women chainmakers to earn a decent living wage. This year’s festival celebrated the 99th anniversary of their success.
In 1910 the women [...]
13 Comments CherryPie on Sep 15th 2009
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More Fun from Moo
On and off for a number of months there have been technical problems with my local PCS site which meant I had to investigate temporary solutions to host the posts.
During the process the inevitable happened and I revamped and updated the style of the page. Well it is still a work in progress really [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 6th 2009
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Media Myths & the Civil Service Again
Last Friday the Government announced plans to radically reduce the compensation paid to civil servants who are made redundant. The proposals are published by the Cabinet Office and are described as “reform” of the civil service compensation scheme. The proposals actually represent a cut in contractual rights to a decent redundancy compensation at a time [...]
21 Comments CherryPie on Aug 4th 2009
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The Day of Two Regional Meetings
The day started off well, I got up in plenty of time which is unusual for me. I was ready far too soon but decided to walk down to the station early to get cash and pay some money in at the bank.
It turns out that was the right decision because there was a bit [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jul 23rd 2009
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Floozy in the Jacuzzi
I had a brief meeting in the PCS Regional office this afternoon. We were discussing the latest newsletter, which by default and inaction (from the rest of the editorial team) was left to me to collect the latest articles.
I thought I was going to be taught how to produce/collate the newsletter. I was quite [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Jul 9th 2009
