Yesterdays strike by more than 200,000 civil and public servants caused disruption across the UK with courts, museums, jobcentres, tax and benefits offices and enquiry points either closed or offering no service to the public. E-Government services took up some of the public demand yesterday & showed that web transaction can be of real value.
The second one-day stoppage by members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) across 200 government departments, agencies and non-departmental bodies is an escalation of a dispute over job cuts, pay and privatisation, prompted by the government and civil service managements refusal to hold direct negotiations or agree to conciliation through ACAS.
Across the country, examples of disruption include:
The Department for Education and Skills public enquiry line is closed for the day with customers advised to look at the website, email enquiries or in an emergency call the main switchboard
Jobcentres, benefits offices and tax offices either closed or operating on skeleton staff with no service offered to the public
Courts across the country either closed or majority of hearings cancelled, including at the Old Bailey where only three of 20 courts are open
More than 90% of Scotland’s civil servants on strike with picket lines at every government office in Scotland
Museums and galleries closed or operating rundown service, including most major London museums
Significant number of members at the Serious and Organised Crime Agency on strike, with only emergency cover provided
English Heritage sites, such as Eltham Palace in London, closed
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More than 20,000 civil servants went on strike across Lancashire today, badly disrupting some services.
Job centres, tax offices and the national Disability Carers' Allowance Centre were all running on a "skeleton staff" as hundreds took to the picket lines as part of a dispute over job cuts, pay and the privatisation of public services.
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) estimated up to 5,000 would not be turning in for work today in Preston alone.
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Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) at the towns HM Revenue and Customs office in Saltire House, walked out over plans to reassign jobs to Edinburgh, as well as in support of national issues of job cuts, pay and privatisation.
Staff at the tax office are angry over plans to relocate 85 jobs from the Glenrothes base to the capital.
They claim it would cost them £2,000 a year to commute to the capital.
They also believe that some workers would be unable to make the move because of domestic committments.
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Civil service workers in Finchley and Edgware joined a second national strike on Tuesday over pay, job cuts and privatisation.
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) said the 24-hour walkout was due to affect up to 200 government departments and agencies.
These included Revenue and Customs staff at Gateway House, in Regents Park Road, Finchley, and at Lyndhurst House, in Bunns Lane, Edgware.
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Perhaps it is time for sarkaari babus to go back to school. In an ostensible effort to groom civil servants, the government is planning to set up a National Centre of Governance that will train bureaucrats in public administration, management, public relations and customer relations. An inter-state ministerial council, chaired by the prime minister, has appointed Hyderabad-based Centre for Good Governance to prepare a draft report on this project. "We have already submitted our preliminary report to the council. The new centre will require Rs 500-crore investment," said a senior official of the Centre for Good Governance.
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Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said today that the government has yet to decide on Cuepacs request for a pay rise for civil servants.
Noting that the issue had not been discussed by the cabinet, he said that matters pertaining to salary were normally brought to the attention of the cabinet committee chaired by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Well have to wait for the governments decision. The governments sympathetic to the plight of civil servants. Whatever it is, well have to take into account the governments capability and productivity of the civil service, he told reporters
The General Secretary of PCS says the Government is out of touch and PCS will do stand up for the rights of their membership as axing their jobs would not only hurt the public sector worker but public service delivery as well.
This week, representatives of more than 320,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services union will meet in Brighton for our annual conference. Like all trade unions, democracy is at the heart of everything we do and conference is where our policies are made.
Never has this collective will of our membership been more important; we have reached a crucial
The 2007 annual delegate conference of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) opens today (16 May) in Brighton. Over 1,200 delegates will be attending the conference of Britains largest civil service trade union, which runs until Friday 18 May against a backdrop of an ongoing dispute over civil and public service job cuts, privatisation and below inflation pay.
The dispute with the government and civil service management has already seen two successful one day civil service wide strikes this year and the first day of the conference, today, will see delegates debating the next steps of the campaign. Options
Congressman Jim Moran, Virginia Democrat, announced today that the House Appropriations Committee has passed its FY08 Financial Services Appropriations bill which contains pay parity (3.5%) for federal employees, requires the GSA to identify all impediments to making federal buildings environmentally friendly and provides $26.4 million for OPM to digitize its retirement records.
Federal employees work along side our military in operations around the world, said Moran. Our battle against terrorism would be crippled without their support. Last month, the Armed Services Committee raised military pay by half a percent. By including an identical raise for civil servants in todays bill,
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A total of 474 candidates have qualified this year after cracking the prestigious civil services examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), it was announced here on Monday.
Mutyalaraju Revu from West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh topped the examination, while Anindita Mitra, ranked eighth, was first among the woman candidates.
They were among some 200,000 applicants who appeared for the tests - a selection rate of a mere 0.237 percent. Of the 474 selected candidates 373 are males and 101 females.
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Introduction
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Mutyalaraju Reva, who is from Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, topped the 2006 Civil Services Examination in which eight women figure in the top 20.
Announcing the final results today, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) recommended 474 candidates, including 101 women. Reva is from the backward caste community.
Reva is a product of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc). Anindita Mitra, an engineer, whose overall ranking was eighth, topped among women.
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Mutyalaraju Revu, an Other Backward Class (OBC) candidate from a small village, has topped the highly competitive civil services examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) at a time when the country debates the issue of reservation for OBCs in higher education.
Revu, 27-year-old son of a farmer in small village in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, has surpassed 473 successful candidates including 214 general category qualifiers to top the merit list.
His uncle Venkanna was all praise for Revu, who is currently serving in the Andhra Pradesh Police. Revu, who has always been a brilliant student, has done his
