Our manifesto

We will:

• aim to give members financial stability, as well as fair pay and guaranteed progression rates.

• reach an agreement on office closures and job security that genuinely protects you. We will not use you as pawns in a game of party politics.

• strive for high quality jobs and genuine career paths that are open to all members irrespective of gender, orientation, age, race or religion.

• aim for a common set of terms & conditions, such as leave and family-friendly policies, across the whole of the Civil Service. These will be based on the “best of the best”, with no detriment, and subject to membership ballot.

• work closely with our like-minded colleagues currently in control of every other major trade union. PCS will no longer be on the fringe of the trade union movement.

• reduce subscriptions to 0.5% of salary and bring together the array of member benefits into a simpler system that will make it easier for members to save money.

• place controls on how your money is spent on non-core trade union activities and ensure that the name and integrity of PCS is protected.

• devote more resources to training your front-line representatives and increase the size of our in-house legal team. We will make it possible for your reps to access a database of legal precedents from their desk.

• ensure that PCS members are served by high quality staff by introducing a fair and transparent recruitment system, free from political interference.

• open new offices in Northern Ireland, northern Scotland, the South, the North West and expand our smaller offices in Newcastle, Liverpool and Exeter so that your representatives can get help where and when they need it, as well as being able to access training nearer to where they live.