Vote ‘yes’ for the alternative

Delegates to PCS’s annual conference have decided it’s time to take a stand against the unprecedented attacks on workers by the Conservative-led government.
Members will be asked to vote in a ballot to give the union legal authority to call national industrial action.
Everything we have worked for is under threat:
• Pay is frozen while inflation soars
• People face working longer and paying more for smaller pensions
• No public sector job is safe as services are slashed and organisations merge
• The government has ripped up the redundancy terms in the civil service compensation scheme (CSCS).
PCS is urging members to vote ‘yes’ in the ballot for strike action and action-short-of-a-strike which will start next week.
Four education unions are also planning industrial action over attacks on public sector pensions – after talks between trade union leaders and cabinet ministers came to nothing.
A big yes vote will strengthen the hand of union negotiators in every public sector workplace in the UK.
Hundreds of thousands of working people took to the streets of London on 26 March to demand an alternative economic strategy.
The protesters’ confidence grew as trades unionists glimpsed their collective strength.
It’s time to turn that energy into action.
There is an alternative.
The government could find the money to fund public services and to protect the jobs, pensions and pay of public servants.
What PCS members can do:
• Sign in to the members area of this website and make sure the union has your correct address and contact details
• Check your closest colleagues are in the union – and if not ask them to join
• Take part in workplace and branch meetings – your idea could be the one that wins the dispute
• Support local anti-cuts activities – whichever union is leading them
• Read our alternative economic strategy

Emergency strike motion that was debated at conference
Conference reports
Education unions ballot over pensions
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