17 Aug 2011
One of the business areas in the department (Director Centre TLB) is running a new project to find out what has and is still causing members of staff so much stress. Members will no doubt ask why it has taken this long.29 Jul 2011
PCS, the trade union representing the majority of civilian staff in the Ministry of Defence, has denounced the announcement of an extra 7,000 job cuts as "shameful".29 Jul 2011
Prior to the 2010 general election, the Conservative party line was that they believed we needed 25,000 less civilians in the Ministry of Defence. Once they had formed a coalition government, they hastily conducted the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), which reported in October 2010 and not surprisingly announced 25,000 civilian job losses alongside 17,000 military job cuts.26 Jul 2011
The collapse of the Defence Training Review (DTR) was welcome news following the election of the ConDem government, although our union was concerned about what other harebrained schemes might be dreamt up in the corridors of power.4 Jul 2011
Yesterday, the Permanent Secretary wrote to Ministry of Defence staff regarding public sector pensions. Many of the claims made in that e-mail are partial, misleading or just plain wrong.28 Jun 2011
Our union is asking every member to take strike action on Thursday 30 June.