PCS reacted angrily to yesterday's Indepedent Budget Review report calling for up to 60,000 job cuts, pay freezes, privatisation of public services, and attacks on pensions and sick absence in Scotland.
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In response to attacks by the so-called Tax Payers Alliance on the cost of Scottish Government trade union facility time, Lynn Henderson, Scottish secretary of the PCS Union, said: "The partnership works well on both sides and I think represents very good value for money when you look at what it delivers."23 Jun 2010
PCS slammed Scotland's finance minister's signal that he will follow Tory chancellor Osborne's lead and attack low-paid public sector workers.22 Jun 2010
The coalition government Chancellor will today announce in his first budget some of the most severe cuts in public spending ordinary workers have ever had to face.18 May 2010
The Public and Commercial Services union welcomes the commitment made by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance to honour the no compulsory redundancy agreement reached with unions in devolved government department and agencies.5 May 2010
Voters in Glasgow are being asked by representatives of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) to support a campaign against cuts to civil service redundancy terms. On Wednesday 5 May a battle bus will visit some of the main Government offices in Glasgow city centre including the Ministry of Defence, Scottish Government, Scottish Enterprise, DVLA, Passport service and DWP to highlight the union's opposition to drastic cuts to the civil service compensation scheme, which governs payments in the event of redundancy or early retirement.