MyCSP Dispute – PCS Vindicated
PCS Industrial Officer, Jim Knotts looks at the long-running dispute with MyCSP and argues that the jobs should be brought back in-house.
PCS members at MyCSP are entering the 18th week of their dispute over union recognition and those members should be applauded for their commitment and solidarity in the face of a hostile private sector employer. The parliamentary public accounts committee (PAC) has just published a damning report into the Cabinet Office’s handling of the privatised administration of the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
They concluded that the Cabinet Office has not demonstrated it has sufficient capacity and capability to manage the MyCSP contract effectively and has now failed on two occasions to adequately manage the transition from one supplier to another. They also said that the Cabinet Office accepts that the terms of the contract with MyCSP does not enable it to hold MyCSP to account for its performance (or lack of it). This is the true cost of privatisation for privatisation’s sake.
A company that is accountable to no one and is allowed to refuse its employees the basic right to union recognition. The PAC concluded that the Cabinet Office should set out…its overall commercial strategy for pension administration including consideration of the benefits and costs of administering the scheme in-house which vindicates PCS’s position. Please try and make it along to the MyCSP picket lines at 40 Tithebarn Street, Liverpool or Landmark House, 5 Station Road, Cheadle Hulme and show your solidarity with our striking members. Messages of support should be sent to [email protected]