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Reps come together to discuss response to cuts

7 July 2010

More than 100 senior PCS reps and officials are meeting today to discuss reaction to the most draconian public spending cuts in living memory.

The meeting comes a day after the government announced it intends to change the law to get round a High Court ruling that cuts to existing civil servants’ redundancy terms were unlawful.

The union has warned that the drastic cuts to redundancy pay, under the civil service compensation scheme, would pave the way for mass job losses that will damage the essential services that its members provide to the public.

Reps will discuss how proposed cuts to the compensation scheme fit in with the wider issues of threats to jobs, pay and pensions, and feedback will be presented to the union’s national executive committee next week to help frame how PCS responds legally, industrially and politically.

PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: “The coalition government has wasted no time in setting about dismantling the public sector piece by piece, so we’re wasting no time in planning how to fight back.

“We have always said we are willing to negotiate and reach agreement, but when jobs, pay, pensions and now civil servants’ contracts are under attack, we will have to plan for industrial, political and community campaigns on a scale not seen for decades.”

 

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