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Civil Servants To Take Industrial Action On Budget Day

21 March 2010 - 10:17pm
Press Release: Civil and public servants who are members of the Public & Commercial Services Union (PCS) across the UK will be walking out for a third day of strike action on budget day,...
Categories: local, midlands

PCS Midlands Rally

18 March 2010 - 10:52pm
On Wednesday 24 March a Midlands Region rally is taking place in the centre of Birmingham.  The rally is in defence of the Civil Service Compensation Scheme. The assembly place for the rally is at...
Categories: local, midlands

PCS Members to Take Strike Action on Budget Day

18 March 2010 - 8:57pm
The government have ignored PCS offers to resolve the dispute by negotiations rather than strike action. This has led to PCS members planning further industrial action on budget day next week: Legal...
Categories: local, midlands

Region’s Workers Prepare to Strike

17 March 2010 - 11:58pm
The Shropshire Star report that civil servants will be taking part in a national strike on budget day next week: Hundreds of civil servants in Shropshire and Mid Wales will join national strikes on...
Categories: local, midlands

MP Launches Campaign to Secure RAF Base Jobs

17 March 2010 - 6:34pm
Shropshire MP for the Wrekin, Mark Pritchard has launched a campaign on facebook calling for jobs to be secured at RAF Cosford.  He says that Shropshire’s collective voice needs to be heard to...
Categories: local, midlands

Cosford Staff Demoralised by Delay

17 March 2010 - 5:57pm
Yesterday the Shropshire Star reported that Cosford Staff are highly demoralised after hearing the announcement that  project Barona was to be delayed for at least two years. It will leave no...
Categories: local, midlands

Concern for £1bn bid for MoD Work

16 March 2010 - 9:23pm
The government are shortly to announce whether or not BAE systems, who have a site in Telford have been awarded a £1 billion contract to build armoured reconnaissance vehicles for the British...
Categories: local, midlands

Plan to Move Troops to Cosford Shelved

16 March 2010 - 9:04pm
Yesterday the Shropshire Star reported that a proposed move of troops from Germany to the airbase in Cosford had been shelved: PLANS TO move more than 2,500 troops from Germany to RAF Cosford have...
Categories: local, midlands

Civil Service Compensation Scheme - Further Industrial Action

15 March 2010 - 7:56pm
Further action: all out on Budget Day - 24 March Please note that the date for the proposed industrial action has changed from 19 March to 24 March.  We have had successful action so we now need to...
Categories: local, midlands

Local MP Lends his Support

15 March 2010 - 7:21pm
Mark Pritchard MP for the Wrekin has signed EDM 251 to show his support of the PCS campaign to reach a negotiated settlement regarding the Civil service Compensation Scheme.
Categories: local, midlands

PCS Industrial Action Day 2

9 March 2010 - 4:28pm
The second day of industrial action in support of the Civil Service Compensation Scheme was well supported by PCS members in Shropshire. The latest photographs of the picket lines can be found...
Categories: local, midlands

Hundreds of Civil Servants on Strike

8 March 2010 - 7:35pm
Today, hundreds of civil servants across Shropshire launched a 48-hour strike joining the 270,000 that are expected to strike around the country in a row over redundancy pay.  This is the biggest...
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PCS Members Set for Industrial Action

5 March 2010 - 11:44pm
Yesterday’s edition of the Shropshire Star reports  on the proposed strike action by PCS members.  The industrial action is set to take place on Monday and Tuesday next week and could see as...
Categories: local, midlands

Shropshire MPs Back Civil Service Unions Demands For A Negotiated Settlement

5 March 2010 - 8:36am
Press Release: Up to 270,000 civil and public servants from across the UK are set to launch a month of industrial action with a 48 hour strike on 8 and 9 March in a dispute over unilateral changes to...
Categories: local, midlands

PCS Lobby Parliament

4 March 2010 - 10:38pm
Yesterday around 100 representatives of PCS, including a strong delegation from Shropshire, and from across the UK descended on Parliament to lobby MPs over cuts to the redundancy terms for civil and...
Categories: local, midlands