The campaign goes on and building for action

The campaign against the great pensions robbery goes on. We are involved in a marathon and not a sprint and with political and industrial developments throughout Europe, we have a great chance to defeat a weak ConDem government. The policy adopted by our conference last week is: 1. To call on the TUC to demand that the Government enter into central negotiations on the core issues of increased contributions, the switch to CPI and the link to the state pension age. 2. To argue for further national industrial action on public sector pensions at the end of June with as many unions as possible and to take final decisions once the position of other unions becomes clear. 3. To build the joint union campaign '68 is too late'. 4. To organise a parliamentary campaign to block the Public Sector Pensions Bill and call on the opposition parties to support the campaign. 5. To continue to campaign jointly with as many unions as possible for the alternative of investment for economic growth and tax justice. 6. To continue to press the TUC for closer coordination between unions on campaigning and industrial action. 7. To fully support and build PCS members participation in the TUC demonstration against austerity planned for the autumn. 8. To fully support PCS Groups and Branches campaigning and taking industrial action against cuts as an essential part of our programme of action. 9. To fully support community campaigns, protests and peaceful civil disobedience against the cuts organised by campaigning bodies such as UK Uncut, the Occupy movement and welfare campaigners, and support and work with anti-cuts groups campaigning against the inequality of cuts. The italic emphasis is mine as I believe these are the immediate points all members need to note. The NEC is putting the terms of the policy into immediate action and updates will be provided on this blog and on our Facebook group page - PCS DWP Leicestershire General Branch, as we cannot give this sort of update through Departmental IT; although the employer will no doubt use that method to try and rubbish the ongoing campaign. Please refer to the blog and the Facebook page regularly and please continue to support the campaign. No to working longer, no to paying more, no to receiving less.