PCS Euston Branch

The PCS campaign against the new Performance Management regime is gathering momentum. Initially we’re just asking members to give their manager the objection letter. Following our recent...

On Tuesday 7th May we’re going to the theatre!

This year’s mandating meeting is being held from 2.00pm – 4.00pm in the Conference Room. This is the meeting where members decide how the branch delegates will vote on motions at the Group and...

Into the Fire is a film from Reel News about the situation facing refugees and migrants arriving in Greece and the rise of the far-right Golden Dawn party. Into the Fire was crowd-released yesterday:...

Following the publication of BB116 (pdf) we are holding a members’ meeting to explain the PCS response and the contents of the Branch Briefing. Lorna Merry, PCS R&C Group Vice President, will be...

What do you get when you take a policy which even the DWP decided was unworkable and inflict it on the whole Civil Service? Disgruntled, demoralised, despondent staff. That’s what. The latest...

Ricky Tomlinson was one of the speakers at the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom launch rally in London on 23rd March 2013. His address focuses on the Shrewsbury 24 campaign, which seeks justice for...

These are brief notes of yesterday’s Branch Executive Committee (BEC) meeting to give an idea of what was discussed. These aren’t agreed minutes, which will be issued once agreed at next month’s...

Lin Homer, who was dumped on HMRC after making a right old mess of the UK Border Agency (UKBA) issued a statement on the HMRC intranet yesterday (05/04/2013) about the PCS industrial action on...

Today (4th April) I had the immense pleasure of attending a session about the new Performance Management procedures being introduced to HMRC and all Civil Service departments. I must be clear that...

It’s not often that we post a Branch Briefing here but time’s too short to write about Monday. We’ve already created a whole load of work for the employer and got them flustered so,...

Jon Bigger, a PCS rep in the Home Office, has been made redundant despite being perfectly capable of doing his job and, on many occasions, the only applicant for positions at his grade. PCS believe...

Some of you may have seen today’s Hotseat question to Mike Falvey about pensions, specifically the disparity in benefits for varying schemes which will now have the same contributions. In his...

This item is cross posted from the PCS Croydon Home Office Branch site The front page of today’s Guardian newspaper  evocatively charges that the UK has changed dramatically in 24 hours. This follows...

Pay, pensions, terms and conditions, Enquiry Centre closures, performance management quotas. Tell them you’ve had enough. Our action continues on Monday 8th April.

This is the first local communication being sent after we held a members meeting regarding PMQs on the 21st March. Paul McGoy, who is the PCS Assistant Group Secretary of the Home Office Group,...

…and why it’s the most important day of industrial action you’ve ever faced. HMRC, under instruction from the Government, are attacking us like they’ve never attacked us...

Hugh Davis and I attended a meeting with a senior manager and the Enquiry Centre staff after it was announced at 1:30pm on Thursday 14th March that all 281 Enquiry Centres are to close in April 2014....

Owen Jones kindly agreed to speak at our Annual General Meeting on 20th February. This is edited footage of his talk. The full talk and question and answer session is available to registered branch...

For branch members only, Owen Jones’s full speech and the Q&A from our 2013 Annual General Meeting, 20th February 2013.