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Has Mark Serwotka's PCSU trade union been aiding attacks on the poor

Benefitfraud | 07.09.2011 09:38 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

How many pension credits claims are being suppressed, denied and blocked by staff at the London Pension centre in Newcastle?

Urgent verification questions for the PCSU on the DWP staff claiming that they are allowed to ignore trade union guidelines, policy statements and references to the trade union's compliance with the anti  discriminatory statutes in the UK and those of the UDHR and the ECHR

Is this true?

Is this what the PCSU trade union admits when its leader makes the statements in public suggesting that the trade union is "defending" the poor?

How many pension credits claims are being suppressed, denied and blocked by staff at the London Pension centre in Newcastle?


These are some of the questions that we are pitting in the national campaign web site later today, Wednesday .

Please therefore let us have the PCSU union’s latest  official, unambiguous and transparently accessible and recognisable position on these admittedly summarised questions as based on the empirically reported claims on behalf of and by the recipients of some of the worst barriers being put up by DWP London Pension Centre  against poverty stricken pension credit claimants

The above are questions about principle.

So we shall not be accepting any comment that avoids the issues and resorts to not commenting in individual cases. We are NOT asking about  cases. We could do. But we are not doing so here.

Does the PCSU union have any comment on the utterances by Steve Webb the pensions minister who has promoted the untruth that pension credit take up rate is low because [continues the lie]  the pension aged people who are legally entitled to the pension credits are failing to make the claims out of ignorance?

What has the PCSU union  said, if anything at all, about those pension  credit claimants who are unlawfully being denied their credits?

Benefitfraud

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evidence?

07.09.2011 14:50



This is a no-news article based on insinuation and no solid evidence. But to address a few of the points anyway -

1. Unfortunatley some people join the union for completly selfish reasons - some in my profession see it as a safety net and a free solicitor should something go wrong at work. So it is entirly possible for someone in a union to behave shittily without the consent or even knowledge of the union.

2. Again unfortunatley, a small number of workers in some sectors are unionised. The benefits office where a relative of mine works has some 20 members of staff, only 4-5 of whom are in the PCS, only 2 of whom took strike action on June 30th.

I'm not a blind supporter of the unions - infact the beurocracy, crap leadership, cosying up to the labour party etc drives me mad. However, it does seem a bit unfair to attack one of the more militant and principled union leaders using no evidence and malicious insinuation.

If you've had a bad time at the job office (which I suspect to be the subtext and inspiration of this piece) there are loads of organisations that can help you out, from the CAB to more credible direct-action casework groups such as London Coalition Against Poverty

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