Blogs

Playwright Ed Waugh explains the inspiration for his play The Cramlington Train Wreckers about the 1926 General Strike, which due to trade union support, including PCS and NIPSA, will be performed at L/Derry Playhouse on 8 July and The Waterfront Hall, Belfast, on 9, July, before transferring to Newcastle Theatre Royal on 12 July.

Andrew, a partially retired civil servant at the National Highways, explains how Capita’s misadministration of the civil service pensions scheme has caused him extreme stress and financial hardship.

With multiple extreme temperature spells already recorded this year and further hot periods predicted, excessive heat is no longer a short-term issue. Rising global temperatures mean extreme heat events are an ongoing, serious workplace hazard that requires annual preparation.

We need to come together and make the case for social security, for our NHS, for education, and against war, PCS General Secretary Fran Heathcote told an international conference against war in London on Saturday