Campaign Activity - GET ACTIVE in 2012
Here you can find the latest information on Local, National and International campaigns supported by PCS North Staffordshire.
Defend public sector pensions
PCS members along with other members in the public sector are being asked to pay more for their pension, work longer and get less. PCS members recently overwhelmingly rejected the government’s pensions proposals in a consultative ballot. In order to put pressure on the government to positively engage and enter into genuine negotiations with unions we want all members to take part in co-ordinated political lobbying. Please take a minute to write to your MP to ask for their support to re-open the negotiations on pensions.
SAVE REMPLOY FACTORIES
The decision to close the North Staffordshire Remploy facility with the loss of 114 jobs – 104 of which are for disabled people – is an attack on some of the most vulnerable people in our society. Remploy was initially set up in 1946 to provide employment opportunities for people with disabilities, many of them injured servicemen returning from the war. Please sign the Petition to Protect the 36 Factories and 1,752 Jobs due to be cut across the country: http://www.saveremployfactories.co.uk/
Save the Equality and Human Rights Commission
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is threatened with massive cuts of up to 55 per cent to its budget. Please join our campaign to save the EHRC by emailing your MP to ask them to maintain current funding to the EHRC and help protect society from inequality in these difficult times. Email your MP today
and asking them to sign early day motion 2848 and support the campaign.
PROTECT THE FORESTRY COMMISSION – NEW
More than a year after the government announced its U-turn on selling off the public forest estate, there is still no clarity over either the future of the public forest estate or guarantee of protection of jobs for the workers employed in the Forestry Commission.
Please email your MP and ask them to sign EDM 2925 which calls for the forestry Commission to remain in public ownership and also for it to be adequately resourced to be able to remunerate its employees and to continue to deliver a service up to the level of public expectation.
STOP SECRET LOBBYING – 38 Degrees Network.
David Cameron has come up with weak rules that won’t the kind of secret lobbying that damages our democracy – we can push him to go much further and ban secret lobbying, if we speak up together now. SIGN THE PETITION
Save messenger service jobs at Jobcentres
PCS have launched a campaign to save messenger service jobs at Jobcentres. Balfour Beatty, who employ the messengers, have been instructed by the Department for Work and Pensions to make savings on its contract. They are seeking to do so by cutting about 250 office service assistants (OSAs) at jobcentre plus offices across the UK. PCS members are arguing that this is a false economy as it will only result in staff who currently deliver vital services in jobcentres becoming their customers. Please write to your MP and ask them to support our campaign to save messenger jobs.
Office closures in HMRC
HMRC has announced another wave of office closures in its bid to cut 10,000 jobs over four years. With over £120 billion of tax that is avoided, evaded or uncollected it makes no sense to keep cutting jobs and services in the very department responsible for cutting this tax gap. Please take a moment to email your MP to invite them to a briefing PCS is holding in Parliament on 17 April.
