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Union warns: HP job cuts threaten gov't IT
News The Public and Commercial Services Union has said the jobs of former civil servants employed by EDS could be axed, following the takeover of the company by HP. The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) said it believes that more than 3,000...
[September 18, 2008, 8:29]
Union voices fears over airport face-scanning tech
News The Public and Commercial Services Union has raised concerns about the reliability of new Home Office technology for checking e-passports. We see there is a role for technology, but we have reservations about the role of this technology," a Public...
[August 21, 2008, 12:56]
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...
[May 20, 2005, 3:00]
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]
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]
HP: EDS job cuts won't affect service delivery
News According to the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), which represents more than 2,000 EDS staff in the UK, the services provider has contracts with the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the Home Office...
[October 10, 2008, 9:59]
HP contractors at DWP vote on strike action
News The contractors' union, the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), said staff have become increasingly angry since HP Enterprise Services took over EDS in August 2008. Earlier in November, the Unite union announced that its members working for...
[November 19, 2009, 9:51]
Fujitsu IT staff to hold three-day strike
News The Public and Commercial Services union, which represents 850 members at Fujitsu, told ZDNet UK on Friday that it was still negotiating with Fujitsu, and had no immediate plans for strike action. In October, the union polled its more than 1,500...
[November 6, 2009, 15:03]
HP workers set dates for strikes
Blog On Wednesday, The Public and Commercial Services Union said that up to 1,000 of its members at HP Enterprise Services could take part in a one-day strike on 10 December and in an ongoing overtime ban beginning 8 December.
[December 3, 2009, 18:57]
Unite to hold Fujitsu strike ballot
News The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) also represents workers at Fujitsu Services. The union, the largest in the UK, represents over 1,500 workers at the firm, whose total pay packages could be reduced by around 20 percent as a result of...
[October 8, 2009, 14:22]
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]
Fujitsu IT staff vote in favour of strike
News In addition, the Public and Commercial Services Union, which represents 850 members at Fujitsu, told ZDNet UK on Monday that 68 percent of its members voted to strike, and 85 percent voted in favour of industrial action short of strike.
[November 2, 2009, 16:10]
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]
