PCS members at water regulator Ofwat are set to ballot for strike action and action short of a strike from 28 September to 19 October, unless Ofwat and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) provide reasonable assurances on members’ demands in the coming days.

PCS members at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s South Kensington site will take further strike action on 25 and 26 September as their dispute with management over pay, health and safety, working condi...

PCS members at the Victoria and Albert Museum will take strike action in September as their dispute with management over pay, health and safety, working conditions and trade union engagement escalates...

More than 100 military base caretakers and their families face losing both their jobs and their homes under Ministry of Defence (MOD) proposals to abolish all remaining caretaker posts across the Army...

Outsource giant OCS threatens job cuts and demotions.

PCS members working for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) will take four and a half days of strike action this month (see notes below) after senior management failed to provide a...

PCS has condemned the Department for Work and Pensions' announcement that it will close nine Service and Support Centres (SSCs) across Britain by September 2027, putting thousands of civil servants at...

PCS members in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action in response to the department's controversial FCDO2030 restructuring pro...

PCS has welcomed the decision to insource facilities management contracts managed by the Government Property Agency, bringing around 2,000 workers back into the Civil Service.

The Cabinet Office has confirmed to PCS that Capita will miss the ministerial deadline of 30 June to restore pension administration services to contractual standards – another unacceptable failure by ...

The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union has secured a major victory for its members after the Metropolitan Police agreed to retain and redeploy PCSOs (Police Community Support Officers) who had...

PCS has secured progress in the 2026/27 UK Civil Service pay remit guidance (devolved nation governments have separate remits) which contains measures aimed at improving pay for the lowest-paid civil ...

Comments coming from Reform UK figures is yet again, another attempt to intimidate civil servants and trade union members for exercising their democratic rights.

PCS union members working in the Parliamentary Security Department (PSD) at the Palace of Westminster have voted to accept an agreement, bringing a long‑running dispute to an end.

The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union has said the government must urgently follow the decision to terminate Capita’s contract with the Royal Mail Statutory Pension Scheme by taking the same ...

The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union is calling for an immediate halt to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) restructuring programme following the departure of its Perman...

Office for National Statistics staff have secured a major shift away from individual office attendance targets following a long-running dispute.

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has condemned a fresh failure by Capita after a data breach exposed the personal details of 138 civil service pension scheme members.

PCS welcomes elements of the government’s latest procurement reforms, particularly the potential to bring more work back in-house and reduce the overreliance on outsourcing.

PCS is calling on the government to urgently review office attendance mandates and protect workers from rising living costs linked to the war in Iran.

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) condemns the bombing in Iran and warns of the severe consequences for civilians and regional stability.

Capita, which is currently failing to pay pensions to thousands of retired civil servants has been named the preferred bidder for a £700 million contract to run payroll services for more than 250,000 ...

PCS members at the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) will take three days of strike action on 24, 25 and 26 February in an escalating dispute over an imposed 2% pay award.

New unemployment figures published today show the number of people out of work has risen to 1,883,000 — an increase of 94,000 in the last three months and 331,000 over the past year.

PCS welcomes today’s High Court ruling that the Home Office acted unlawfully in proscribing Palestine Action under terrorism legislation. The Court’s judgement is a significant and damning rebuke of t...

Members at the Tate have endorsed an end to industrial action after an improved pay and conditions offer, bringing a hard-fought campaign to a close and suspending a second wave of strike action due t...

The Cabinet Office is due to set out plans to make payments to those affected pensioners at risk of hardship, with further information expected from the Government within the next 24 hours.

Thousands of retired civil servants are facing financial hardship and distress after pensions and lump sums failed to arrive on time under outsourced administrator Capita, the Public and Commercial Se...

Today’s inflation figures show prices rising again, with it now at 3.4% from 3.2% last month, adding further pressure on working households across the country.

Unemployment has risen by 103,000 over the past three months, while jobcentres remain understaffed due to low pay.

PCS members begin balloting on Monday 19 in a dispute over low pay and wage compression

Met Police have made a new pay offer in the face of a Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) strike planned for tomorrow (Thursday 15) which would repeat the successful disruption seen in November...

6,500 Met police staff and 130 Mayor’s Office staff will strike next week in disputes over two-tier pay.

Union members’ urge managers to meet fair demands in Met Police and MOPAC.

Palace of Westminster security staff will strike again, on 31 December, threatening Sir Lindsay Hoyle’s New Year’s Eve bash.

British Library’s crisis-plagued leadership to be hit by a new wave of strikes from Monday 8 to Friday 12 December 2025.

Parliamentary launch of solutions roadmap for a department in crisis.

PCS and Capita Pensions Solutions have signed an agreement confirming union recognition for the workers administering the Civil Service Pensions schemes for 1.7 million civil servants.

PCS welcomes the scrapping of the two-child limit but more must be done on cost-of-living crisis.

Union members are angry about chronic low pay and wage compression in the department.

More than 300 union members working in the Parliamentary Security Department are taking strike action on 26 November.

More than 120 Border Force Maritime workers who patrol UK waters, including the English Channel, will take strike action tomorrow over frozen allowances and unresolved changes to terms and conditions.

Responding to the latest unemployment figures and the continued drive by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to close local service centres, the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) gener...

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has told staff it will slash frontline support for UK business exports, with serious risks of widespread redundancies and office closures in England and Sco...

Managers and ministers are responsible for systemic crises across the prison estate, not over-worked and under-paid staff.

Taxpayers demand civil service investment and results. Reform want the opposite.

Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union members working for the pension administrator MyCSP have announced three more weeks of strike action.

A Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report has vindicated the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) campaign for the in-sourcing of the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS).

Over 400 Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) workers are at risk of redundancy or forced relocation, after the department announced office closures in Dover, Warrington and St Helens.

Civil servants who work in pensions finance in the Cabinet Office have voted to take strike action in a dispute over the privatisation of their roles.