DWP, DEFRA and Environment Agency, MOJ and MOD: Save our shared services
As part of the government’s drive to privatise large parts of the civil service, it is outsourcing ‘shared services’ that provide support such as IT, pay and payroll, procurement, and Finance.
On 4 March a government joint venture with French Multinational Steria, known as SSCL, announced it was to close three shared service offices in Cardiff, Leeds and Sheffield, make over 500 jobs redundant and offshore more than 200 jobs to India.
This announcement affects members in DWP, DEFRA and Environment Agency offices. We are concerned that other departments could follow suit, with MoJ already planning to join one of two already outsourced shared services contracts.
On Wednesday 2 April we are holding a drop-in briefing for MPs in parliament. Make sure your MP knows to attend this by emailing them today.
Environment agency job cuts
We are asking all members to lobby their MPs to sign an Early Day Motion against job cuts. In support of our colleagues at the EA, please urge your local MP to sign Early Day Motion 947. Please use your personal email address when signing this petition. You can find out who your local MP is here.
TUC Fair Pay Fortnight: Monday 24 March – Friday 4 April (see below) PCS is supporting Fair Pay Fortnight and organising events on 1 April. Sister unions have also committed to workplace activities during the FPF including in local government (Unison, GMB, Unite), also on 1 April, and health service on 3 April. Trades councils have also been asked to organise town based events and you are therefore encouraged to make contact and get involved. For more information on this TUC led campaign visit TUC Fair Pay Fortnight
TUC National Demonstration – ‘Britain Needs A Pay Rise’: Saturday 18 October. This autumn the TUC is to organise a mass demonstration in London under the banner of Britain Needs a Pay Rise. It will begin with a march through central London, culminating in a rally in Hyde Park. This will be the fourth march that the TUC has organised since the coalition came to power. The first – the March for the Alternative – in March 2011 saw 500,000 people attending a huge march and rally in London. With people facing the biggest squeeze on their incomes since Victorian times, and official figures out last month showing that wages have fallen in real terms every year since 2010, the TUC believes that as growth returns to the UK economy, everyone should get to share in the recovery.
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