Sentences with phrase «pcs civil service union»

Doug is the son of the former general secretary of the Scottish TUC, Campbell Christie, who died in 2011 and he is the nephew of Leslie Christie, ex-leader of the NUCPS, a forerunner of the PCS civil service union.

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«Peaceful protest and civil disobedience have a long and proud history in this country, and are a perfectly legitimate response to plans that no - one voted for and no - one wants,» Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), said.

ENDS Notes - For information and interview requests contact PCS national press officer Richard Simcox on 020 7801 2747 or 07833 978216 - The Public and Commercial Services union represents civil and public servants in central government.

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PCS is the largest civil service trade union with over 300,000 members working in all government departments, agencies, non-departmental public bodies and related private sector employers.

In the past few months, the leaders of all the public sector unions threatened a mass strike of three million workers over pensions, while this week the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union balloted members on industrial action over civil service job cuts.

PCS is a campaigning union, with a central focus on protecting public service jobs, services and issues affecting the civil service.

The union's case is that by failing to gain the consent of PCS, the largest civil service union, the government had no authority to impose detrimental changes to the civil service compensation scheme, which governs payments in the event of redundancy or early retirement.

He spoke out as sources at the civil service PCS union, which joined teachers on strike in June in a row over the Government's pension reforms, said its national executive had agreed to hold another one - day walkout in the autumn.

About 280,000 civil servants will be balloted on strike action today as the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union protests against job losses and outsourcing.

We have decided to mount a legal challenge with other unions representing civil servants and hold a strike ballot of over 270,000 PCS members working in civil and public services.

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Ministers had promised to instruct officials to meet PCS and other civil service unions to discuss PCS concerns when they announced plans in July to cut the terms of the compensation scheme.

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The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) launched a judicial review after the government revised the Civil Service Compensation Scheme (CSCS) with a view to saving # 500m over three years.

Delivering judgment in R (on the application of PCS) v Minister for the Civil Service, Sales J quashed the amended CSCS on the grounds the government failed to obtain the union's consent, as required by the Superannuation Act 1972, s 2 (3).