PCS elections: Low turnout shows union activists must organise

The defeat of PCS’s cost-of-living pay strikes dominated the election.

17 January 2024

PCS: Vote Lloyd and Moloney, but rank and file must organise to break with Broad Leftism

By PCS activists Members of the civil servants’ union PCS will vote to elect their general secretary and assistant general secretary in November. The contest is between the ruling Left Unity faction candidates Fran Heathcote for general secretary and Paul O’Conner for assistant general secretary, and Marion Lloyd (Socialist Party) and incumbent AGS John Moloney […]

14 November 2023

PCS members say no to below-inflation pay ‘rise’

PCS members follow the nurses' lead

07 July 2023

PCS: Targeted strikes are not enough

Branches have called on the NEC to bring all members out in January.

18 December 2022

PCS Conference votes to launch campaign on jobs and pay in the Autumn

By a PCS member WITHOUT WARNING, let alone consultation, Boris Johnson has announced over 90,000 job cuts in the civil service. To add insult to injury he did so through the pages of the virulently anti-worker Daily Mail, while suggesting the resultant savings would be used to cut taxes, benefiting the rich most. One in […]

31 May 2022

Covid-19 and the PCS: from workers’ rights to workers’ control

In the DWP we should veto work that sanctions or penalises claimants and demand Universal Credit is paid on the first day, in advance, not six weeks in arrears. In the Home Office – end deportations and close the detention centres

22 March 2020

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