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PCS Members on Strike Today Deserve Our Support

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As many as two-hundred thousand civil servants could be on strike today, 15 October, over cuts in their real pay. PCS members at airports, courts, government departments, museums, art galleries and jobcentres are taking strike action. The PCS calculates that many civil servants will have suffered a 20 per cent cut in their incomes during the Coalition Government’s term of office, 2010 to 2015, because of frozen wages, increased pension contributions and inflation.

SERTUC send its solidarity greetings to those on strike today who are seeking fair pay for their work.

PCS research shows that:

35,000 (7%) civil servants earn less than £15,000 p.a.

63% of civil servants earn less than £25,000 p.a.

80% of civil servants earn less than £30,000 p.a.

Average median in pay in the civil service is now 4.4% lower than average median pay in direct private sector comparators.

In 2012 99% of Civil Service employees had a pay freeze, whereas 43% of private sector comparators had a pay increase of 2 to 2.9%

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The incessant attacks on civil servant’s pay, on their jobs, pensions. their professional status and their competence, are ‘prolonged punishment beatings’ of the very people we depend upon to deliver public services and to respond to emergency issues, such as emergency measures at border controls to help keep Britain free from the ebola virus. Last week the government was boasting about how it has cut the number of civil servants by 17 per cent and that there are now fewer civil servants than at any time since the WW2.

Join the national ‘Britain Needs a Pay Rise’ demonstration in London, 18 October

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