A pay campaign must reflect all members. By failing to set a specific fixed sum or % demand for all grades, the GEC risks alienating middle and senior staff. We need concrete, tangible demands to agitate around—not vague talks that leave members behind.
27.02.2026 18:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Pay is a massive issue in the DWP, but why is the GEC ignoring other clear mandates? Hundreds of hybrid workers voted for action on office attendance, and 69% of London HQ voted to fight redundancies—yet both were denied a ballot. This isn't how a member-led union acts.
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This model ensured that a culture of complacency set root in workplaces, members were slowly stripped of their agency and control moved from the workplace to the group.
We need to change that. A first step towards this is to vote in Coalition for Change slates in DWP and the NEC.
The DWP result is not an aberration, and cannot be soley laid at the feet of a poor 5-week campaign. Decades of top-down organising and bargaining has rendered the union inert in DWP. Reps/members have been told vote for the right people and you don’t need to concern yourselves with anything else.
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DWP Failed Ballot: The disease and the cure: pcsindependentleft.com/2026/02/24/d...
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DWP GEC 2026 Coalition Candidates: Go Here: pcsindependentleft.com/2026/02/21/d...
24.02.2026 11:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We are committed to building a sustainable and robust fighting fund from within members’ subscriptions to meet our strike action requirements as soon as possible, to avoid an over reliance on temporary levies, which would be reserved for exceptional circumstances.
17.02.2026 18:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0From streamlined processes to produce workplace-specific leaflets, to the ability for elected reps to contact members directly, putting the power to recruit and organise members directly into the hands of branches/ groups is a crucial step in building an organising revolution in PCS.
16.02.2026 20:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Branches and Groups must have resources placed at their disposal to ensure they are leading the charge to recruit the estimated three hundred thousand non-unionised civil servants and privatised workers on central government contracts into PCS.
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Today (Friday) the IL will be holding a meeting Resisting Cuts in the Civil Service: join that via the zoom link below:
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Bev has a longstanding record against the increasing role of the bureaucracy in the union and understands how to listen to members and reps to help to transform it alongside us all. Nominate her and the full Coalition for Change slate which can be found here: pcsindependentleft.com/2026/02/02/p...
12.02.2026 17:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For 2026 we need a new President and NEC that will undertake the dual tasks of leadership; to listen and to lead. Bev Laidlaw of the Independent Left is the Presidential candidate for the Coalition for Change.
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HMRC GEC Election 2026 – When management attacks, we fight back!: pcsindependentleft.com/2026/02/06/h...
11.02.2026 10:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A Coalition for Change-led NEC will campaign on pay, pensions and jobs, but also to secure genuine freedom and flexibility for our members in how and where we do our work.
10.02.2026 18:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Beyond pay, the leadership have been ineffective in stemming increasing workloads, the erosion of hybrid working, opposing office closures, tackling the rising threat of AI to civil service jobs and the attack on London-based civil service jobs through Places for Growth and Plan for London.
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Join the Independent Left for a discussion to pool ideas and begin to organise the fight back – both in our own branches and across the Civil Service – against cuts.
Join the discussion next Friday (13/02/26), 12:30 – 13:30, via the zoom link below:
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We have to oppose all efforts to reduce budgets through pay cuts or job losses – through a coordinated and rigorous industrial response. But so far, PCS has failed to provide the leadership we need. We need to build from the bottom up and bring together affected workforces.
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IL Open Meeting: Resisting Cuts in the Civil Service: Join the discussion next Friday (13/02/26), 12:30 – 13:30, via the zoom link below:
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Yet the General Secretary has not worked up a DDAT pay claim nor sought to organise Digital workers. If we win, that will change, and the union will properly organise Digital workers.
05.02.2026 17:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nearly one in twenty staff in the UK civil service are IT specialists of one sort or another. Many of these are on what used to be called the Digital, Data and Technology (DDAT) framework.
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It won't change with LU in power.
To vote them out, nominate the people here, campaign for them and vote for them: pcsindependentleft.com/2026/02/02/p...
Since May 2025, and the election of the current NEC, most members have seen their pay fall when compared to inflation.
Low pay remains endemic across the UK civil service, and our lowest paid members are routinely overtaken by the National Minimum Wage rise each April. This is disgraceful.
So nominate Bev Laidlaw for President, and all on the NEC list and let's win the NEC.
03.02.2026 18:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Whilst it is vitally important to win a majority - overwhelming majority at that, on the NEC, it's particularly important that we win the President's position.The current President actively thwarted the NEC when LU were in a minority. If he is re-elected he will do the same.
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PCS NEC 2026 – Coalition for Change Candidates. See the list; nominate the people; change the union: pcsindependentleft.com/2026/02/02/p...
02.02.2026 15:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A start would be to have a non LU NEC.
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The damning fact is that PCS members in increasing numbers have decided that democratic engagement is not worth the effort: a mere 6.4% of members voted in the last NEC elections.
For all these reasons and many more, we in the Independent Left believe that change is needed.
At regional level too, the general secretary has prevented regional committees – and especially the London and South East regional committee – from carrying out important organising and political work. The only way to change this is change the NEC. We have to vote LU out.
28.01.2026 16:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Regional and group decision-making should be a building block in our union’s democracy, but these structures have too often been overruled or ignored by national PCS. The general secretary has imposed changes to group compositions with little if any engagement with the groups and branches affected.
28.01.2026 16:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That's because they control the NEC. If that is lost then their control is weakened. Not lost, they have the General Secretary and senior full time officers but not having a loyal NEC creates problems. So we have to focus on voting LU off the NEC and also DWP GEC.
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