Public and Commercial Services Union

"The government needs to pay heed to the growing chorus of opposition to its plans for welfare reform. The plans are regressive and will lead to the removal of the state safety net and the introduction of the free market, where the only motive is profit for the few and not help for the many. As recession bites these are the wrong proposals at the wrong time."
Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary 

"We fully support the campaign. Our aim is an adequate income for all, and we do not believe the welfare reform proposals can achieve this, in fact we see many aspects of them as an attack on human rights."
Eileen Devaney, national co-ordinator of the UK Coalition Against Poverty

"The government should be concentrating on cushioning the blow to those losing their livelihoods by raising benefit levels to avoid the inevitable descent into misery that unemployment brings. Redundant workers coming into our offices cannot believe that £60.50 per week is all they are going to get on jobseekers allowance."
Colin Hampton, National Unemployed Centres Combine

• Read our joint statement calling for welfare for all
• Read a call for jobseekers allowance to rise by £15 per week - Guardian website
• Read our vice president, John McInally's article in the Guardian online

For information and to sign up to the campaign email welfare@pcs.org.uk