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Union Urges Caution Over Gov't Outsourcing Plans
News But the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) claims the private-sector commitment ignores a catalogue of troubled partnerships in the past. The review found that outsourced public services' contribution to the UK economy has grown 130 percent...
[July 14, 2008, 8:33]
Ministry Of Defence Criticised Over EDS Contract
News According to the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the win has shown that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is prepared "to reward failure". Despite rocketing costs, continual problems and a failure by ATLAS to deliver all the agreed services...
[January 11, 2007, 16:30]
Public Sector Strike Threatened Over Lack Of IT Performance Improvement
News Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union are deciding whether to hold a national one day strike in response to government plans to cut over 100,000 public service jobs in its efficiency drive.
[October 4, 2004, 16:15]
EProcurement
White Papers ICT can effectively make government more accessible and remove existing administrative and commercial barriers across the Union. Public procurement is one of the key areas where these new technologies can improve and simplify the way government...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Microsoft Upgrade Knocks Out 80,000 Government PCs
News The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the union which represents civil and public servants in central government, said that the number of employees is around 130,000 full-time equivalents, with approximately 100,000 terminals, which...
[November 26, 2004, 11:10]
Union Wades Into Offshoring Row
News Unions representing business-process and call-centre employees are planning to establish an independent public investigation into the outsourcing of UK jobs abroad, according to Amicus, which is the largest union for private sector and...
[February 9, 2004, 8:05]
Curbs On Galileo Keep Planes Safe
News The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has introduced regulations that will prevent Europe's planned satellite positioning system, Galileo, from interfering with aircraft safety. Unlike the existing GPS, which was set-up and maintained by...
[August 5, 2003, 11:20]
X.25 White Paper
White Papers X.25 and related protocols are administered by an agency of the United Nations called the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). The International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) (formerly CCITT) is...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Union Official Voices Concern Over Public Sector IT Jobs
News Graham Steel, senior national officer commercial sector for the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), said that automation and outsourcing are combining to create an "hourglass economy". He made the prediction in the PCS Commercial Break...
[November 7, 2005, 8:40]
Cameron Urges Brown To Rethink ID Cards
News The civil service Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has welcomed the review, but raised concerns about the impact of the government's continuing commitment to cut a further 12,500 jobs in HMRC by 2011, in addition to the 13,000 already...
[November 23, 2007, 13:26]
Government Urged To Cut Consultancy Costs
News The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has accused the government of cutting 100,000 civil and public service jobs and then making increasing use of consultants to plug the gaps, often at up to 10 times the cost.
[June 19, 2007, 13:38]
Europe To Push Open Source For E-government
News The Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, argues in the report that open standards, and to an extent open source, are crucial to making new e-government services work with each other and with enterprise systems.
[July 21, 2003, 13:34]
Grid Computing 'vital To Europe's Future'
News Grid technology is key to the new European Information Society 2010 initiative which aims to promote higher economic growth and social inclusion across the union, said Reding. The aim of the initiative is to make the European Union (EU) "the most...
[June 1, 2005, 12:55]
Government Must Demand Project Accountability - Report
News PCS [the Public and Commercial Services union] told us that CSA's new telephony system had actually made it harder for a customer to contact the Agency and to talk to the caseworker dealing with their case.
[July 23, 2004, 10:35]
Government Pushes Forward With E-Borders
News The civil service Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) expressed serious concerns about the announcement, however. Staff with less than three hours of training are being asked to perform key roles, such as passenger profiling, the union said.
[November 19, 2007, 12:14]
CeBIT 98: Gerstner Keynote P3 - Responsibility
News I think the nations of the European Union have set a real leadership example here in preparing for the common currency, perhaps the most important change since European integration and the Treaty of Rome.
[March 19, 1998, 16:38]
Echelon: Is Anyone Bothered?
News But the European Union also wants to move forward in the fight against crime and therefore has granted the European police, Europol, partial immunity to the new legislation. One long-term and one temporary committee in charge of investigating...
[June 30, 2000, 15:25]
Jobcentre IT Systems Hit Problems
News The MPs on Parliament's Work and Pensions Committee highlighted figures obtained by the Public and Commercial Services union indicating that Jobcentre Plus contact centres are failing to process claims successfully for two-thirds of calls.
[January 27, 2006, 15:50]
Google Porn Probe Compromise Imminent
News If the Justice Department does win this case, Google would be likely to face a second round of subpoenas from the American Civil Liberties Union for follow-up information. The ACLU is challenging the 1998 Child Online Protection Act (COPA), which...
[March 15, 2006, 12:40]
MPs Call For Overhaul Of Jobcentre IT
News A spokesperson for the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union, which represents Jobcentre Plus staff, told GC News: "The whole of the efficiency review is underpinned by IT, but it is quite clear that at Jobcentre Plus it has not been doing...
[October 9, 2007, 14:28]
