The PCS Independent Left think that it’s important that members come together to discuss the challenges our union faces and recognising the importance of rank and file organising we’re beginning a series of monthly online meetings to discuss how we can transform our union and meet those challenges.

Last month, we heard from comrades in the Cabinet Office, Ofgem, the Department for Education, DESNZ and several others talk about how the budget cuts across the Civil Service were impacting individual employers – with headcount cuts, Voluntary Exit Schemes and the looming threat of redundancies almost everywhere. The effect of these cuts is not only to increase the workload on an already under-resourced and underpaid workforce, but to continue to drain away access to public sector jobs for working class people.

We also discussed actions we can take together – include collating and distributing our campaign materials, building local disputes, motions to ADC and other forms of pressure we can exert on our national leadership to take action.

We have decided to continue to discuss the cuts at our next meeting in this series – which will take place online via zoom Friday 13th March (12:30 – 13:30).

This meeting will be the second in our series of monthly online meetings so keep your eyes open for the next. If you’re interested in building a rank and file democracy that seeks to empower members, then consider joining the Independent Left in our campaign to transform the union.

Join the discussion next Friday (13/03/26), 12:30 – 13:30, via the zoom link below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85916233677?pwd=OSW4GNbBPGxY1aZ7aPdYenLjH95jJC.1