By a Job Centre ons, few of which had any worker And it has delighted the AS WE go to press thouscabs of the Royal College sands of CPSA members in the Employment Service are posture as the main oppo- nents of local pay bargain- voting on strike action to pursue their pay claim. The management offer is worth below the rate of inflation, and is entirely linked to performance. claim was for 9 percent for all doucied ander of a laver of staff, regardless of performactivists will be reflected in ance, plus two bours off the emergency resolutions and working week with no loss of pay. Management have already backed down once on pay this year. Chief Executive Mike Fogden described the original nav oller - wnich was cyca worse! - as 'generous". But it down the back of the settee?
If Job Centre workers strike. they will do so with the full support of their Broad Left-led Section Executive. Even notoriDUS right-winger Reamsbottom, CPSA General Secretary, has expressed support for a programme of industrial action.
Employment Service management have nothing but contempt for the CPSA members The union's who deliver the scrvice at the sharp end. While management peddle their falsehoods in glossy in-house newspapers and "personal" letters from the Cht Exouac, unon members are not even allowed works time to meet and discuss the pay offer.
This year's ballot is a referendum on ES management. It's time for Joh Centre workers to show they have had enough. and vote YES to a programme