PCS news digest 8 June

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8 June 2012

This weekly news digest is a summary of news, campaign articles, media releases and reports from the past week

8 June

Three-day Merseyside job centres strikes underway - Liverpool Echo

A three-day strike across Merseyside jobcentres continued reported the Liverpool Echo

Driving test examiners and coastguards to strike - Guardian

Plans to close driving test centres and coastguard stations provoke a series of walkouts in June

7 June

Three-day DWP action

Jobcentre staff across Merseyside (and Halton), took strike action across three days in opposition to plans to reduce by up to 28% staff who help the unemployed back in to work.

Vote 'yes' to strengthen our political campaigning - PCS

PCS began balloting members from 7 June on our political campaign strategy, including whether we should stand or support candidates in national elections.

6 June

Coastguards and driving examiners to strike over planned cuts

About 6,000 coastguards, driving examiners and office staff will walk out on Friday in protest at threatened job cuts and office closures. The action is part of a month-long series of rolling strikes in the Department for Transport which began with an overwhelmingly supported two-hour walkout in the DVLA last week.

HMRC staff back industrial action - Money Marketing

Staff at HMRC have backed industrial action over budget cuts at the department, with the Public and Commercial Services Union claiming reductions in funding are undermining its ability to collect taxes.

5 June

Call for inquiry into use of unpaid jobseekers as jubilee stewards - Guardian

Security firm issues 'sincere apologies' for treatment of stewards but insists it did not exploit workers, reported the Guardian

Beecroft Rights Removals: UK employee rights under attack - TUC

A new TUC video highlights that your rights at work are under attack.

4 June

Welsh holidaymakers forced to fly to Scotland for emergency passports - Wales Online

Cuts at Wales’ only passport office are forcing people who need to renew their passport in a hurry to travel as far as Scotland at their own expense to do so, reported Wales Online.

3 June

SNP calls for urgent U-turn on coastguard cuts

Following warnings from the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) that the planned closure of the Clyde Coastguard Station will put lives at risk, the SNP has urged the UK government to rethink its programme of cuts to coastguard services in Scotland.

Remploy will destroy my girl if she loses job again - Remploy Workers Info

The father of a disabled worker who faces losing her job for the second time in four years has attacked the politicians behind the Remploy closure programme.

2 June

Scottish government to give tenants fresh protection against dodgy landlords - Daily Record

Dodgy landlords who won’t repay tenants’ deposits are to be targeted by two Scottish government schemes, reported the Daily Record.

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