The all-out
@pcs_union
strike on 28th April is part of this month's
#PCSonStrike
action programme✊🏭🏢🚩
The 5 week
#PassportStrike
starts today & there's continuous action in: driving licences, museums, coastguard, etc.
The govt has to put money 💷 on the table!
#BlameTheGovt
This govt 🧛🧟🧌 wants 10s of 1000s of
@pcs_union
members who are on less than the national average 🤢 or even on minimum wage 🤮 to take a real-terms pay cut ✂️💷
No, ta! 🚮
All out on 15th March for
#WalkoutWednesday
! ✊🏭🏢🚩
#PCSonStrike
#BlameTheGovt
This is silly. "Tax collectors" are
@pcs_union
members, like our comrades in
@pcs_rclpool
. They don't "lack ambition" to make the rich pay: they lack staff & resources, & are hamstrung by a system designed to let the rich off the hook
@Channel4News
@mattfrei
Why are you giving this man a platform?
He advocates genocide against the Palestinians.
See:
He's a veteran of the Lehi, an organisation that tried to build a political & military alliance with Nazi Germany in 1941.
See:
Over 100,000
@pcs_union
members are on strike ✊🏢🏭🚩 on 1st February.
PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka & PCS President
@FranHeathcote
are talking 📣 tonight with everything you need to know about
#PCSonStrike
.
Live on Twitter, Facebook & YouTube. 6:30pm sharp! 🕡
Solidarity with our
@PCSCultureGroup
comrades in the British Museum taking their first day of targeted 🎯 & sustained 🌅🌃🌅🌃 strike action today.
They're striking in support of the
@pcs_union
national campaign on pay, pensions and T&Cs ✊🏭🏢🚩
#PCSonStrike
#BlameTheGovt
Ready for tomorrow!
All buildings will be picketed 🏢🙅🏢 & all entrances will be picketed 🚪🙅🚪
Win on pay 💷📈 & defend the trade unions ✊🚩
@pcs_union
all out on 1st February!
#PCSonStrike
#BlameTheGovt
William Morris: "I will begin by saying that I call myself a Communist, and have no wish to qualify that word by joining any other to it."
The "William Morris Society":
We are excited to announce the appointment of Dr Tristram Hunt as the William Morris Society's new President. Dr Hunt is the Director of the V&A and a distinguished historian and author. His first official act will be to open our exhibition, Morris's Successor: John Henry Dearle.
The Palestinian trade unions have asked us for maximum solidarity.
Tonight, reps from:
🔻
@pcs_union
🔻
@RMTunion
🔻
@NEUnion
& others
Joined the
#Palestine
solidarity action at Liverpool Lime Street 🚩✊🪧🇵🇸
Need a new ballot paper? 🧾 it’s your last chance to request a replacement by following the steps in this link: … the deadline for replacements is Monday, get it posted and let us know you’ve voted 🥳
Great article by Paul O'Connor 👇
Beating the govt's Rwanda plan yesterday was a massive win for
@pcs_union
🥳 but it's just the start
Nice to see our former group secretary follow our current branch secretary into the pages of
@tribunemagazine
too!! ✊
It's
#walkoutwednesday
eve!
This govt 🧛🧟🧌 of millionaires has billions more 💷 📈 for war ⚰️ but wants
@pcs_union
members on < the national average 🤢 or on minimum wage 🤮 to take real-terms pay cuts 💷📉
No, ta! 🚮
All out on 15th March✊🏭🏢🚩
#PCSonStrike
#BlameTheGovt
The national turnout has beaten the Tories' ridiculous, undemocratic threshold and the average YES vote ☑️🗳️ is 86.2%: the highest 📈 percentage vote in the union’s history. Get your coat on, and get moving.... 🕺
.
We'd point out that some on the left least willing to criticise Hamas are also those who shout loudest about the far right in Ukraine.
In neither case does the existence of far-right forces invalidate the right to self-determination and freedom from oppression. BUT...
Solidarity with
@pcs_union
members in the passport office, starting 5 weeks of
#PCSonStrike
action across Britain & in the north of Ireland today ✊🏢🏭🚩
The government needs to put money 💷 on the table
#blamethegovt
I support DVLA staff and the
@pcs_union
in their strike at DVLA over
#Covid
safety.
Help them in their fight to make DVLA management and Transport Secretary Grant Shapps take notice and act on staff safety.
Most
@pcs_union
members earn less than the national average 🤢
1000s are on minimum wage 😖 including in the department that implements the minimum wage 😵
This govt of millionaires 🧛🧟🧌is forcing them to strike to get a pay rise.
Vile!
Support
#PCSonStrike
&
#BlameTheGovt
The UK Government have 5 days to avoid Passport Chaos.
1.25 Million passports are usually processed during the upcoming strike period. It’s over to the government now to get around the table
#pcsonstrike
#BlameTheGovt
This govt 🧛🧟🧌 of millionaires wouldn't
- talk 🗨️ until they were made to 💪
- negotiate 👥 until they made made to 💪
Now they've got to be made to put money 💷 on the table to make those negotiations meaningful 😤
#PCSonStrike
ALL OUT 28TH APRIL
#BlameTheGovt
✊🏭🏬🚩
The hidden front: Israel's war against the Palestinian working class.
"Many of the workers are under detention in Anatout military camp, under degrading and inhumane conditions."
Excellent article in
@tribunemagazine
by
@Taj_Ali1
A government of millionaires refusing fair pay rises to working class PCS members is class war
& the only answer to class war from above is class war from below
ALL OUT on 28TH APRIL ✊🏭🏢🚩
The government has to put money 💷 on the table
Support
#PCSonStrike
&
#blamethegovt
We're striking for fair pay and to protect our pensions and T&Cs
ALL OUT on 28TH APRIL ✊🏭🏢🚩
The government needs to get serious & put money 💷 on the table
Support
#PCSonStrike
&
#blamethegovt
This is great.
The working class is only as strong as its numbers & its unity in action.
All sectionalism - in this case pitting 'native' against 'refugee' - undermines discipline & opens us being picked off one by one
A clip of Paul O'Connor's speech at the SUTR demo outside Parliament tonight ⬇️
The illegal migration bill is an abhorrent piece of legislation we're proud to take our place in the fight against it and all of this government's blatant attempts to deflect ✊️❤️
#Solidarity
Is it too early for 'best backdrop' 🏙️🌆🌇🌃 nominations for a
#PCSonStrike
gala
#PicketLineOscars
?
Would it get better than this 👇 banger? 🎆
Got to fancy
@PCS_Scotland
having some runners from Glasgow or Edinburgh or Shetland 🤔
@PCSL_SE
as well... 🧐
Everyone knew passport applications were going to go through the roof. The government failed to plan for it. Now they won't employ enough staff to sort out the mess. That's why people aren't getting their passports |
@pcs_union
calls for passport services to be properly resourced
So... The official PCS DBS Branch results are in. Drums, please! 🥁
Turnout: 66.01% 📮
Yes: 90.75% ☑️
No: 9.25% ❎
We have:
🔻 smashed the threshold, once again
🔻 voted YES, once again
We can:
🔻 take industrial action, if we have to
We're out on strike on 28th April 🏭🏭🏢🚩
Head to our youtube channel 👇 for the full video, setting out why we think you should support the
#PCSonStrike
action
#blamethegovt
Big thanks to all the members who stopped to talk to us when we were leafletting for
#walkoutwednesday
this morning.
Your support is overwhelming & we'll be back out this evening & tomorrow too.
ALL OUT 15TH MARCH
#PCSonStrike
✊🏭🏬🚩
This government of millionaires needs to hear your voice over the sound of their champagne corks popping & the clatter of their silver
ALL OUT 28TH APRIL ✊🏭🏢🚩
Support
#PCSonStrike
&
#BlameTheGovt
@tribunemagazine
@PCS_Scotland
It's as clear as day that opposing these laws and being able to win on pay are linked. Hope to see other unions out with
@pcs_union
on February 1st 🚩✊
#COVID
ー19 in DBS:
✅ If you're ill, the absences won't count under the sickness policy & won't be taken out of your contractual sick pay.
✅ If you're not ill, but you're quarantined, in isolation, caring for others or your childcare is disrupted, you get paid special leave.
****ANNOUNCEMENT****
Our branch hit 50% of postal votes today with almost 70% of members spoken to face to face, online or by the many reps and members giving up their time to volunteer at the phonebank.
Fantastic effort from reps and members since the pay campaign began ✊🏽
Always great to see the Honorary President of the
@pcs_union
Parliamentary Group & friend to the Branch,
@johnmcdonnellMP
. Sure he was made up to tread the same stage as some of the leaders of the local labour movement in Liverpool too 😂😚👌
Today's the anniversary of the
#BattleOfCableStreet
.
On 4th October 1936, under the banner of "All out against fascism!" the Communist Party led a 100,000-strong demonstration preventing Oswald Mosely's British Union of Fascists from marching through East London
#NoPasar
án
After our last Members' Briefing about the ballot 🗳️ some of you have approached Reps with concerns about the financial cost 💷 of taking industrial action ✊🏭. A short thread 🧵....
Some people in the Bank of England think "we" should accept being poorer.
But they know the rich are getting richer, even now.
So what they mean is: workers should just give in & let more money flows up to the rich.
Not in this lifetime or the next.
ALL OUT 28TH APRIL✊🏢🏭🚩
What does
#COVID
ー19 prove? Without our labour there is nothing. Modern society lives at the expense of the working class. This world belongs to us, all of it: unite, organise and take what's ours by right.
@WorkersinPales1
Solidarity to our comrades in occupied
#Palestine
! ✊🚩
Last week, we republished our 2018 explainer 👇 which sets out why the labour movement in Britain owes a special debt to
#Palestine
🇵🇸
We will help pay that debt in any way we can!
#FreePalestine
In 2018 we published a short explainer for
@pcs_union
members about
#Palestine
🇵🇸, & why we support
@PSCupdates
.
A quick 🧵
On 15th May, the Palestinian people mark the anniversary of the Nakba (“Catastrophe”), their dispossession & exile from their homeland.
1/6
Happy International Women's Day! ♀️
This year our branch elected Rebecca Hunter to the role of Branch Chair and Elise Lally to the role of Secretary - the first time both positions have been occupied by women ✊🏼
We're running inductions 🙋♀️ for new starters on the evening shift 🌆 later
It's always an honour to make the case for joining
@pcs_union
's best members 🚩✊
If you know anyone who's not already a member 🫨 send them our way 🫡 or give them this link 👇
It's good the attempt to get the TUC to support the British state's arms to Ukraine programme has been defeated.
But the revised motion is still awful & shouldn't be supported.
Our flag isn't Ukrainian or Russian. Our flag is the red flag of labour.
The main enemy is at home!
"A resolution purporting to support the Ukrainian people in fact offers support for Britain’s corrupt, aggressive and imperialist government’s foreign policy and its subordination to the US interest in prolonging war in Europe."
The Rwanda plan is finished! Huge win for
@pcs_union
!
We turned a workplace campaign to protect members into a political & legal campaign to protect those who need to come here.
Congrats to the HO Group & Paul O'Connor for leading the legal challenge!
Low pay is a plague in the civil service 🤢
Tens of thousands of PCS members are on the minimum wage 😵
ALL OUT on 28TH APRIL ✊🏭🏢🚩
The government needs to get serious & put money 💷 on the table
Support
#PCSonStrike
&
#blamethegovt
First members' meeting on the
@pcs_union
consultative ballot... Done 🙌
Paul O'Connor attended to take questions ❓❓ from rank & file members
Strong support for a YES vote ☑️ & also support for a permanent levy 💷 to support targeted & sustained action 🎯🌆🏙️🌇🌃
#PCSvoteYES
We got loads of questions 🤔 at our AGMs last week about escalating strike action at our place.
We'll talk to the National Disputes Committee about it soon but before that 😁
We need to talk about
#walkoutwednesday
on 15th March
A
#PCSonStrike
thread 🧵dead quick, promise 😂
Overwhelmed by our members' support today. Third day in three consecutive months of absolutely rock solid support for our
#PCSonStrike
. You deserve the world nevermind a pay rise
#BlameTheGovt
@PCSYMN
@pcs_union
Absolutely buzzing here tbh! 🎉🎉🎊🥳
A workplace campaign to protect our members ✊🪧🚩 has been turned into a political & legal campaign to defeat the government & protect all those who need to come here.
& we've won!
It was because you all wanted to see Maz this happy again, wasn't it?
The official PCS DBS Branch results are in.
Turnout: 56.6% 📮
Yes: 92.91% ☑️
No: 7.09% ❎
We have:
🔻 comfortably beaten the Tories' threshold, once again
🔻 voted YES, in unprecedented numbers
We can…
"I will begin by saying that I call myself a Communist, and have no wish to qualify that word by joining any other to it." William Morris, born on this day, March 24, in 1834
#WilliamMorris
#OTD
We're building up to
#WalkoutWednesday
with the launch of our new Branch website 💻
💯 of the best
#PCSonStrike
🚩🏬🏭✊ comms 📄 and content 📱 in
@pcs_union
, 💯 independent of the employer's systems
As well as supporting the demonstrations in Liverpool & Newcastle yesterday afternoon, branch reps were also demonstrating outside Parliament in Portugal 🇵🇹 last night.
We'll support a
#FreePalestine
wherever we are!
@pcs_union
has run
9 disputes 🫨 with 9 employers 😵💫 in the 8 weeks 🥴 since 31 August.
Pay. Contracts. Conditions. Hours. The lot.
When we've had to, we've escalated action 💪 but some, we organised so well, we won without even striking 🎯
Anytime 🪧 Anyplace 🚩Anywhere✊
The
@pcs_union
ballot starts this week!
- When? Thursday, 2nd August until noon on 31st August
- Why? So we know how you think the national campaign should move forward
- How? You can vote securely online. Emails from the independent scrutineer will start going out on Thursday
At
@twt_now
for
@pcs_union
's session on
#SafePassageNow
.
Paul O'Connor has told the meeting how PCS turned a workplace campaign to protect our members - like those in
@PCSHOMerseyside
- into a political campaign for a new system to protect all those who need to come here
James Larkin died on this day in 1947.
Born in Liverpool, he founded the Irish Transport & General Workers' Union 🚩 & was Commandant General of the Irish Citizen Army 🇮🇪
The cause of Ireland is the cause of labour & Larkin's life work was tying the two great threads together.
@Taj_Ali1
We're calling on
@pcs_union
to pause all other int'l solidarity work & divert all allocated resources to helping our Palestinian comrades 👇
Our labour movement owes a special debt to Palestine. Time to start repaying it.
#Palestine
is our priority! 🇵🇸
Standing on the picket line in solidarity with PCS in 2013. At the same time the Tories were decimating workers rights and making drastic cuts to your pay and pensions. The choice is clear for any PCS member.