Job Cuts In The Civil Service

This Conference commends the Civil Service members of PCS of whom over 250,000 took strike action on 5th November last year in defence of jobs and pensions and to protect the services they provide. Conference condemns the proposals of the Chancellor to cut over 100,000 jobs in the Civil Service without regard to the effect this will have on locally provided services, especially to those in our society most in need and expresses its solidarity with PCS and all of its members involved in this struggle. In particular, Conference expresses its deep concern not only about the effect that compulsory redundancies or compulsory redeployment will have in disrupting family life and threatening the security of Civil Service workers, many thousands of whom are scandalously low paid, but also in the circumspect nature of the attacks by this Government who have once again employed false and misleading tactics to make attacks on the trade union movement. Conference pledges its full support to all public service trade unions within the Civil Service and their members and instructs the Executive Council to assist them in campaigns to defend jobs and services.