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By a CPSA activist THE DRIVING Vehicle Licensing Agency headquarters in Swansea has been badly disrupted by strike action called by low paid civil servants union CPSA over bosses' secret plans for mass sackings.
In addition, many local vehicle registration offices have also seen shutdowns. Unfortunately, higher grades organised in NUCPS voted 2-1 against coming out.
The disputes follow the leak of a senior management discussion document on the likely effects of DVLA privatisation in two years time, which predicts: 'It is unlikely that contractors would base their operations in Swansea ... using DVLA staff. Some 4,600 jobs face the axe nationwide, with some 3,000 chopped in Swansea alone.
It goes on to counsel a hush-up, arguing: There is little we could say to staff and unions that would be helpful. Quite. The only consultation management are interested in is how to implement this government-inspired sell-off.
Some people argue there's no need for a fight, as alternative civil service ODS WIll be readily available. In fact, many workers at DVLA have transferred there from departments already privatised. Where are 4,600 people supposed to transfer to?
The need now is to link up workers across the public sector in defence of their jobs and in opposition to privatisation.
Socialist CPSA activists are calling for an open conference to draw up a unified left slate for next year's internal elections.
A crippling split between the Militant-dominated Broad Left and the Kinnockite/Stalinist breakaway Broad Left '84 has repeatedly handed power to hard right, often on a minority vote.
This year saw the election of perhaps the most rightwing leadership within the TUC. Many fear that new general secretary Barry Reamsbottom is intent of taking CPSA down the class-collaborationist road pioneered by the EETPU.
The Socialist Caucus group, which includes CPSA members both Inside and outside the Broad Left, is proposing a left unity conference to agree a joint left ticket on the basis of proportional representation for all groupings in attendance.
With up to 90 per cent of workers on civil service terms and conditions now facing privatisation, the very survival of the union could be at stake, it warns.
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