PCS pay ballot will start 1 September
Civil service union PCS held its national delegate conference in Brighton 24-26 May, preceded by sectoral group conferences. Perhaps four hundred delegates were in Brighton, with some attending online but numbers overall well down since the last physical conference in 2019. The conference voted for a national strike ballot on “cost of living” issues, including pay, pensions and redundancy compensation, to begin 1 September. Whether this should be a single national ballot or disaggregated in some form was remitted to the National Executive Committee. The conference also voted to campaign...