Public and Commercial Services Union

Capita and PCS have been reviewing the working relationship on the DWP record storage contract and have agreed to work together to strengthen that relationship.

Capita managers and PCS representatives have worked together for a long period and agreed a framework agreement detailing how we would work together in future.

In line with the PCS/ Capita strategic agreement it also confirms collective bargaining for all employees below team leader level.

The agreement was signed by Terry Mosley, operations director for Capita and Graham Steel, PCS senior national officer on Tuesday 10 February 2009.

The signing was the opening event on 2 days of joint training held for PCS representatives and managers on the contract so that they understood what the framework meant and could work together to make it happen.

Welcoming the framework Capita national officer Wynne Parry says “This is a very good start to a long process of helping our two organisations work together more effectively.

"We are particularly pleased that the framework commits us to work together on learning and on employee well being and I firmly believe that we can do much together to enhance the job satisfaction of workers on the contract.”

Alf Leech is a PCS representative at the Heywood site.

He tells PCS “We have worked really hard to get this agreement and I am proud that we have been able to agree to extend collective bargaining to groups of members who had not been included before. There is lots more hard work ahead however and PCS will do all it can to make peoples lives at work that much better.”