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. [...]
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Meetings, Shopping and High Court Rulings
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 18th 2010
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PCS Annual Delegates Conference 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
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Zooming In…
… on that courtyard garden from yesterday’s post.
In the brief moments when I was back at the hotel, I noticed that the courtyard was used by businessmen for team-working. It was interesting to look down on them and wonder what they were doing.
You can also see towards the back of the photo that overall [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on May 26th 2010
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A Room with a View
For the duration of the conference we were staying in the Jurys Inn which is very convenient for the railway station but as I mentioned before, it is a short walk from the town.
Booking in was almost as chaotic as last year, but after a while a manager took charge and managed to speed up [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on May 25th 2010
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MoD Group Conference 2010
This year the MoD Group Conference was held in the Holiday Inn which was a long trek from the Group hotel. Business started at 9 in the morning and finished at 5.30 in the evening with an hour for lunch. Once again I was on the Standing Orders Committee which ensures the conference [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on May 24th 2010
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Time to Relax
The journey by rail to Brighton wasn’t too bad despite the engineering works. We managed to avoid having to change to a bus half way through the last leg of the journey, although we were rather alarmed when the train stopped and then appeared to be heading back in the direction it had just [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on May 22nd 2010
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Live from the PCS Conference 2010
Follow me live from Brighton, reporting on the MoD group and main PCS conference. You can also view the latest the comments on my Twitter feed more easily in in my sidebar if you scroll down a little.
We meet in Brighton just after the 6 May general election, but we know that whoever is leading [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on May 16th 2010
