Tag: civil service
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NSSN 446: Support NIPSA civil servants’ July 26 pay strike
This week, the NSSN headline our bulletin with the impending civil service strike by the biggest union in Northern Ireland NIPSA (Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance). You can follow news about the action on the union’s website This statement is from Carmel Gates – NIPSA Deputy General Secretary:- “Up to 20,000 civil servants across Northern Ireland…
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PCS on Chancellor’s Autumn Statement
Republished from PCS website The chancellor has today announced more cuts in government departmental budgets and an increase in state pension age. George Osborne said in his autumn statement that UK state pension age is to increase more rapidly to 68, making it one of the highest in the developed world. State pension age will…